A new press release reports, “Qumulo, Inc., the pioneer and leader in file storage for the cloud era, today announced the availability of Qumulo File Fabric (QF2) on Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, providing enterprises unprecedented choice and flexibility for storing and managing billions of files. Qumulo extends its award-winning solutions across a variety of partners […]
Paxata Announces Apache Spark-Powered Data Preparation Runtime Fabric
According to a new press release, “Paxata, the pioneer in self-service data preparation for analytics, today announced the general availability of its Fall ’18 release, the next major update to the company’s award-winning Adaptive Information Platform. The latest release includes a new Adaptive Workload Management capability, which delivers an elastic resource allocation service on a […]
Connecting SQL and NoSQL into One Platform
Merging the comfortable familiarity and efficiency of SQL with the flexibility and scalability of a non-relational systems is no easy task. CrateDB, offered by Crate.io, is a “distributed SQL database that is built on top of a NoSQL foundation.” It allows users who are comfortable using and SQL database to save and query machine data, […]
Encryption Broken by Laziness
Click to learn more about author David Schlesinger. Many readers of my previous blogs have failed to ask the question “Is there really an unbreakable cipher?” Even though they have been silent, I know some of them stayed awake nights with this provocative question – I will answer it below. In Hollywood movies, a bright hacker […]
Pandora Selects Veriflow CloudPredict for Multi-Cloud Intent-Based Verification
A new press release reports, “Veriflow, the pioneer in automated network intent verification, today achieved another industry milestone, announcing that Pandora, the largest music streaming service in the U.S., has selected Veriflow to provide intent verification for Pandora’s multi-cloud environment. Multi-cloud adoption grew globally by 300 percent in 2017, with approximately 80 percent of IT […]
Why Sometimes Business Intelligence Projects Don’t Take Off
Click to learn more about author Michele Iurillo. Oh. What a big question, I’m sure you’ve seen everything in your experience, but there are repeating patterns, taking some results of a recent Gartner survey, I’ll try to analyze the different problems. Projects that never end, erroneous reports, non-standardized data, difficulty in generating reports that say something, […]
Silwood Technology Limited Strikes Reseller Agreement with IDERA for Safyr Self-service Metadata Software
A recent press release reports, “Silwood Technology Ltd. which provides self-service metadata discovery software to simplify and speed up the exploitation of data in large, complex enterprise application packages, today announced a global reseller agreement with IDERA, a provider of powerful database productivity tools. Through this agreement, IDERA will market and resell Safyr® to complement […]
Three Best Practices for Managing Distributed Applications Architecture
Click to learn more about author Patrick Hubbard. Make no mistake, distributed application architectures can bring tremendous benefits for business. For example, actually using Cloud the way it’s designed can achieve the cost savings promised years ago. But for enterprise IT, distributed architectures can create a problem—many of the monitoring tools we’ve relied on for years […]
Infographic: 2018 Global State of Enterprise Analytics
A new press release reports, “MicroStrategy® Incorporated, a leading worldwide provider of enterprise analytics and mobility software, today released the results of its ‘2018 Global State of Enterprise Analytics’ report. MicroStrategy surveyed 500 enterprise analytics and business intelligence professionals from around the world on the state of their organizations’ analytics initiatives. 90% of respondents reported […]
The Fundamentals of Microservices: Use Cases and Benefits
Microservices offer a number of benefits, which include helping release software faster, update software more frequently, and add new features more quickly. Microservices provide the flexibility to use different technologies and different programming languages, depending on the organization’s needs. The Microservice philosophy of decentralization effects the management and architecture of data. The traditional monolithic approach […]