Click to learn more about author Thomas LaRock Clouds consist of tiny droplets of water or ice crystals—hydrogen and oxygen. The Earth is made up mainly of iron, oxygen, silicon and magnesium. You wouldn’t expect these different combinations of elements to act the same, nor should you assume that your Cloud servers will function exactly like […]
Alation Delivers Governance for Insight in Data Lakes, Both On-premises and in the Cloud
by Angela Guess A new press release states, “Alation Inc., the collaborative data company, today announced deeper support for cataloging data lakes deployed both on-premises and in the cloud, including data lakes built with Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). The Alation Data Catalog is the first data catalog […]
Natural Language Processing: The What, Why, and How
To the outside observer, Natural Language Processing (NLP) may seem futuristic. Only around a third of smartphone owners use their personal assistants regularly (a hallmark of NLP technologies), even though 95 percent have tried them at some point, according to Creative Strategies, a consultancy. However, Natural Language Processing advances continue in leaps and bounds, as […]
Denodo’s Impact: Data Virtualization and its Intersection with the Big Data Fabric
The Data Fabric market is estimated to grow from $653 million this year to $2 billion by 2022, representing a CAGR of 26.6%, according to a new report published by MarketsandMarkets. The report cites the driving forces of increasing volume and variety of business data, the emerging need for business agility and accessibility, and the growing demand for […]
NTT DATA Collaborates with Oracle to Bring Healthcare Big Data to the Cloud
by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “NTT DATA, Inc. today announced the company’s existing relationship with Oracle is expanding to include end-to-end cloud capabilities for Oracle’s Healthcare Foundation, a unified healthcare analytics platform. The platform provides data integration and warehousing of clinical, financial, administrative and -omics modules in a cloud solution to […]
SnapLogic and Snowflake Partner to Simplify Data Integration and Analytics in the Cloud
by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “SnapLogic, the unified data and application integration platform as a service (iPaaS), and Snowflake Computing, the data warehouse built for the cloud, today announced a new partnership to simplify and accelerate data integration and analytics in the cloud. The partnership includes technology integration and joint go-to-market activities […]
SAS Announces New Open, “Cloud-Ready” Machine Learning/Cognitive Computing Platform
SAS announced a new open, “cloud-ready” machine learning, cognitive computing, analytics platform. Recently, Customer Think wrote: The idea is to bring together the SAS portfolio, built over some 40 years, into one platform that can be used by data scientists and other analytics professionals; business users and IT management; and senior management. Customer Think stated, SAS is also working […]
Box and Google Partner to Transform Work in the Cloud
by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “Box, a leading enterprise content platform, announced a partnership with Google. The companies will collaborate on several initiatives to transform work in the cloud, including new integrations between Box, Google Docs and Google Springboard, to deliver a seamless experience for working and collaborating on content in […]
Infor Data Migration Accelerators Speed Time to Cloud
by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “Infor, a leading provider of beautiful business applications specialized by industry and built for the cloud, today announced Infor Data Migration Accelerators to help customers securely transition from on-premise to cloud deployments with ease. With Infor Data Migration Accelerators, customers are able to minimize the risks […]
TidalScale Breaks New Ground with 15TB Server Running on the IBM Cloud
by Angela Guess A new article out of the company reports, “TidalScale announced today that it has configured and run Software-Defined Servers™ ranging in capacity from 1TB to 15TB of DRAM and up to 400 cores assembled from standard physical server hardware running on the IBM Cloud. TidalScale’s HyperKernel™ software allows users to easily aggregate […]