According to a recent press release, “Pimcore, the leading open-source platform for data and customer experience management, has released Pimcore Data Hub to provide organizations with enhanced technology to create fast, scalable apps without multiple steps. The new feature will enable organizations to centrally manage product and web content data, and translate it into neutral […]
Benchmarking Hadoop Performance: On-Premises S3-Compatible Storage Keeps Pace with HDFS
Click to learn more about authors Gary Ogasawara and Tatsuya Kawano. When deploying Hadoop, scaling storage can be difficult and costly because the storage and compute are co-located on the same hardware nodes. By implementing the storage layer using S3-compatible storage software and using an S3 connector instead of HDFS, it’s possible to separate storage […]
The Most In-Demand Big Data Skills and for IT and Data Professionals
Click to learn more about author Gilad David Maayan. The World Wide Web has grown to include more than 1.8 billion websites. Of these, about 200 million or less are active. With each passing day, thousands of new sites are added to the mix to intensify the already cutthroat competition. 2017 was a very productive […]
Where Does the Data Live?
Click to learn more about author William Peterson. Where does the data live? A simple question that can have a very complex answer. But the reality may be that with a data fabric the answer doesn’t matter. Why? As we pointed out in the first blog in this series: “The next generation of Data Management will […]
Where Data Protection-as-a-Service Wins and Loses: Protecting Cloud Data with DPaaS
Click to learn more about author Mat Hamlin. As organizations move more data to cloud services, they must actively adapt their backup and recovery processes and solutions to maintain compliance to their defined governance policies and be able to prove so, when asked by internal and external auditors. Too few organizations understand that data protection […]
Ring in the New Year with 2019 Data and Tech Predictions
Click to learn more about author Patrick Hubbard. An annual (brief) respite in IT and the dawn of the new year provides an opportunity to reflect on lessons learned and to prognosticate on the year ahead, and certainly 2018 was one for the books. We finally saw progress in the growth of software-actuated infrastructures, suffered new […]
You Want Control of Your Data, But What Does That Really Mean?
Click to learn more about author Kevin W. McCarthy. An interesting trend has started in Data Quality. Data Quality has lost its cachet (if it ever had it), and is quickly being overshadowed by the concept of “Data Control”. Data Quality is often thought of as a backroom activity, relegated to IT, and just another […]
Integrations: Key Technology Enablers in Digital Transformation
Click to learn more about author Prasanna Kumar Illa. Any matured business will start the digital transformation journey with a clear strategy and vision driven by the leadership team, who facilitate a culture that quickly embraces the change. Technology is an enabler of digital transformation and technology, along with the strategy, leadership and culture drives […]
Jitterbit Harmony Summer ‘18 Release Takes Enterprise Innovation and Productivity to Next Level
According to a recent press release, “Jitterbit, the API transformation company, today announced the latest release of its enterprise iPaaS solution, Harmony Summer ‘18. This release features support for the full range of integration personas – from citizen integrators to ad-hoc integrators to API developers – hundreds of new self-service recipes, certified GDPR compliance, support […]
Why So Many Data Analytics Projects Fail (And How to Save Them)
Click to learn more about author Wolf Ruzicka. Data Analytics has captured the imagination of businesses, governments, and organizations of all kinds. The potential insights that analyzing large chunks of information can unveil are undeniably powerful. But in reality, most Analytics Projects fail to achieve results. A giant spreadsheet of numbers can look impressive, but […]