Click to learn more about author Lex Boost. Not embracing the Big Data trend can cost your company. According to an Accenture study, 79 percent of enterprise executives agree that companies not embracing Big Data will lose their competitive edge. With data creation on track to grow tenfold by 2025, it is extremely important for […]
A Big Data State of the Union
Click to learn more about author Oksana Sokolovsky and Rohit Mahajan. With the Big Data market and its seminal technology, Hadoop, each about a decade old, enterprise customers need answers to important questions about the Big Data ecosystem health and state of adoption. The ecosystem is maturing. What does this mean for Hadoop, Big Data […]
Can Automation Save Big Data?
Click to learn more about author Amar Arsikere. “What would you think if I sang out of tune? Would you stand up and walk out on me?” The Beatles song everybody knows could also pass as the wilting rallying cry for Big Data, whose “tune” does seem out of sorts these days as more people question […]
A Hybrid Approach to Leverage Intelligent Analytics
“The need to merge real-time analytical processing with on-the-spot transactional decision-making is a problem common to all industries,” noted Monte Zweben, Splice Machine’s cofounder and CEO in a recent DATAVERSITY® interview. Intelligent predictive applications are trained to learn and to adapt, rather than simply being programmed with a limited series of responses. Predictive applications can […]
Cloud Build or Buy? Answers for the Enterprise
Click to learn more about author John Morrell. In today’s fast-paced world, organizations must constantly adapt and innovate to maintain their competitive advantage. Cloud Computing has revolutionized the technological landscape, allowing companies to “rent” time on online services without having rapidly-obsolescing hardware on-site. Nowhere is this clearer than the realm of Data Analytics, where a […]
Four Open Source Tools to Start Your Analytics Journey
Click to learn more about author Mark Hensley. As an adjunct instructor at University of Redlands, I teach several courses in the fields of business and technology. In that capacity I get to meet a lot of bright young people with a keen interest in data and Analytics. Unfortunately, the little financial resources most students […]
Get Ready to Operationalize Big Data Apps
The Big Data Executive Survey released by NewVantage Partners earlier this year shows that close to three-quarters of the respondents surveyed believe they are getting measurable value from their Big Data and Artificial Intelligence projects, which the survey considers as extensions of Analytics capabilities. That number, NewVantage reports, is half again higher than in the […]
Data Management and Analytics Trends Changing the Data World
Click to learn more about author Andrew Brust. What’s going on in the data world right now, and how will it impact the market in 2018? There are the obvious, banner headlines, of course: AI is everywhere and will change everything; Enterprises continue to move their infrastructure – and data – to the Cloud; GDPR […]
Databricks Offers Its Unified Analytics Platform as an Integrated Microsoft Azure Service
by Angela Guess A recent press release states, “Databricks, provider of a leading Unified Analytics Platform and founded by the team who created Apache Spark™, today announced it has become a partner with Microsoft to expand the reach of its Unified Analytics Platform and address customer demand for Spark on Microsoft Azure. Databricks’ Unified Analytics […]
Pepperdata Code Analyzer for Apache Spark Highlights Performance Bottlenecks for Developers
by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “Pepperdata, the DevOps for Big Data company, today announced Pepperdata Code Analyzer for Apache Spark, which provides Spark application developers the ability to identify performance issues and connect them to particular blocks of code within an application. Code Analyzer is a new product that follows on […]