According to a new press release, “Hewlett Packard Enterprise today announced that the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne’s (EPFL) Blue Brain Project, a Swiss brain research initiative, selected HPE to build a next-generation supercomputer for modeling and simulation of the mammalian brain. The new supercomputer, called ‘Blue Brain 5′, will be dedicated to simulation neuroscience, […]
GroundWork Releases Major Update to Monitoring Platform With Azure Connector
A recent press release reports, “Information technology (IT) administrators overwhelmed with the task of maintaining physical infrastructure as their networks expand into cloud and hybrid-cloud systems can now have an enhanced view of their entire IT infrastructure with GroundWork Monitor, a unified monitoring platform by GroundWork Open Source, Inc. The release of GroundWork Monitor 7.2.1 […]
Synchronising Metadata Between Different Tools
Click to learn more about author Mandy Chessell. If you have bought data tools from different vendors, you have probably noticed 3 things: Although each tool adds value, no single vendor can support all of your organization’s needs. Each tool starts “empty” – with no knowledge of your data landscape. Only through use does it build […]
HashiCorp Extends Service Mesh Capabilities With Major Update to Consul
A recent press release reports, “HashiCorp, a leader in cloud infrastructure automation, announced major new functionality for HashiCorp Consul, an open source service mesh to connect, secure, and configure services in dynamic, low-trust network environments. The new capability, called Consul Connect, now enables users to efficiently secure service-to-service communications for containerized and non-containerized services in […]
Indico Launches Enso Open Source Project for Machine Learning
According to a new press release, “Indico, a provider of Enterprise AI solutions for unstructured content, today announced the launch of a new open source project focused on simplifying the use of transfer learning with natural language. Enso is an open-source library designed to streamline the benchmarking of embedding and transfer learning methods for a […]
Out in the Open: Where Big Data and Open Source Coincide
Click to learn more about author Gilad David Maayan. Big Data is a term used to describe large volumes of data in disparate formats that streams into various organizational systems at high-speed. This data requires the use of special tools to analyze it and derive insights from it that can give businesses a competitive edge. […]
Benchmarking the Full AI Hardware/Software Stack
Click to learn more about author James Kobielus. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a resource hog. AI-powered programs will grind to a halt unless developers continue to seek out the fastest, most scalable, most power-efficient and lowest-cost hardware, software and Cloud platforms to run their workloads. As the AI arena shifts toward workload-optimized architectures, there’s a growing need […]
A Brief History of Non-Relational Databases
First came relational databases, which provide a useful comparison for understanding non-relational databases. Invented by Edgar F. Codd in 1970, the relational database arranges data into different rows and columns by associating a specific key for each row. Almost all relational database systems use Structured Query Language (SQL) and are remarkably complex. They are traditionally […]
Dremio Announces the Gandiva Initiative for Apache Arrow
A new press release reports, “Dremio, the Data-as-a-Service Platform company, announced today a new open source initiative for columnar in-memory analytics based on Apache Arrow. The Gandiva Initiative for Apache Arrow leverages the LLVM Project, an open source compiler, to significantly improve the speed and efficiency of performing in-memory analytics using Apache Arrow, making these […]
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 […]