Fact-based assessments for enterprise technologists
The big data community has long been watching Platfora. Now that Platfora has announced the general availability of their capability we can all see much more of the power of their well engineered solutions to serve missions. The video above gives some great use cases and drives home how disruptive they can be. Here is [...]
Cloudant was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2008 by three MIT physicists who at the time were moving multi-petabyte data sets around from the Large Hadron Collider. Frustrated by the available tools for managing and analyzing big data in their research, the founders built a distributed, fault-tolerant, globally scalable data layer on top of Apache [...]
Cloudera offers enterprises a powerful new data platform built on the popular Apache Hadoop open-source software package. Cloudera enhances the storage and processing technologies originally developed by the world’s biggest Web companies, allowing a growing list of global customers to use Hadoop to solve problems and achieve their particular business goals. Hadoop is a powerful [...]
Tony Agresta just published a piece titled “The Big Data Tidal Wave” in the World Financial Review. In it he makes some compelling points for change in the financial industry. He lists four common strategic initiatives related to Big Data in the finance world in 2013: Infrastructure Improvements – Current IT infrastructure needs an overhaul if [...]
CTOlabs.com, a subsidiary of the technology research, consulting and services firm Crucial Point LLC and a peer site of CTOvision.com, has just announced a white paper on the use of Cleversafe For Mission Critical Data. In this paper we review the nature of mission critical data and the importance of being able to operate over mission critical data, [...]
Hadapt’s flagship product is the Adaptive Analytical Platform, which brings a native implementation of SQL to the Apache Hadoop open-source project. By combining the robust and scalable architecture of Hadoop with a hybrid storage layer that incorporates a relational data store, Hadapt allows interactive SQL-based analysis of massive data sets. Hadapt 2.0 delivers the industry’s [...]
Hortonworks Data Platform Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) is a pure open source Apache Hadoop distribution. It is ideal for organizations that want to combine the power and cost-effectiveness of Apache Hadoop with the advanced services and reliability required for enterprise deployments. Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) is the only 100% open source data management platform based on [...]
The amount of data being created in governments is growing faster than humans can analyze. But analysis can solve tough challenges. Those two facts are driving the continual pursuit of new Big Data solutions. Big Data solutions are of particular importance in government. The government has special abilities to focus research in areas like Health Sciences, [...]
SiSense is democratizing Big Data Analytics by pioneering a new approach that enables organizations of all sizes to make sense of their data. SiSense Prism – powered by Elasticube™ technology – features In-Memory Columnar Datastore, strong data compression, parallel processing, and advanced query optimization – offering analytical processing power previously available only with high-end solutions. [...]
Prior to joining Cloudera, Jeff conceived, built, and led the Data team at Facebook. The Data team was responsible for inventing and building powerful data analysis applications on Hadoop. That system is the core data platform at Facebook for improving the user experience and driving revenue. Before he joined Facebook, Jeff worked as a quantitative [...]