by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “Pepperdata, the Big Data performance company, today announced it is expanding its product portfolio with Pepperdata Application Profiler, providing Hadoop and Spark developers with easy to understand recommendations for improving job performance. Application Profiler is currently available in early access and will be generally available in the […]
Looker Brings Actionable Insights to Critical Marketing Data on Google Cloud Platform
by Angela Guess A new press release states, “Today at the Google Cloud NEXT conference, Looker launched a suite of Looker Blocks designed to give marketers the tools to enhance analysis of their critical data. Compatible with Google BigQuery Data Transfer Service, Looker’s new Looker Blocks deliver a powerful, plug-and-play platform to turn data into […]
Unravel Data Launches Version 4.0 of Its Intelligent Application Performance Management Platform
by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “Unravel Data, the industry’s only intelligent application performance management (APM) platform designed to simplify DataOps, today unveiled a new set of automated actions for improving Big Data operations and performance. Designed by Unravel after months of working with 100+ enterprise customers and prospects to uncover their […]
Case Study: Hello Fresh Shifts to Big Data with MapR
The doorbell rings and it’s a big box with the words “HelloFresh” on the side in lime green letters. Inside, surrounded by biodegradable ice packs, are fresh ingredients for three different meals for you and your spouse, chosen from a varied slate of innovative entrees. All the vegies and meats in the box are portioned, […]
Taking the Cloud Computing Road to Data Integration and Data Management
2016 was a great year for data, but the coming years will be even better. That’s the case being made by many in the industry, including Rob Consoli, Chief Revenue Officer at Enterprise Application Integration and Data Management vendor Liaison Technologies. Its Alloy Platform offers Data Integration and Data Management on a single unified platform, […]
Talend Introduces the First Apache Beam Powered Big Data Preparation Solution
by Angela Guess A new press release reports, “Talend, a global leader in cloud and big data integration software, today announced the first Apache Beam-powered solution for self-service, big data preparation. Now a top-level Apache project, Apache Beam is a unified programming model for executing both batch and streaming data processing pipelines that are portable […]
Quantzig Announces Their Top Big Data Trends for 2017
by Angela Guess A recent press release states, “The advanced analytics market has exploded the past few years with big data being one of the hottest buzzwords in the technology sector. As a growing number of businesses take advantage of big data, this rapidly changing industry will see new technology developed and improved in order […]
Homicide and Violent Crime in Chicago – a First Look at the Data with R
Click to learn more about author Steve Miller. A recent article in Atlantic highlights what had been emerging locally for over a year: Chicago suffered a disturbingly sharp spike in homicides in 2016, after a smaller but still noticeable surge in 2015. This at a time when other large cities like New York and Los Angeles […]
Fortscale Unveils Presidio: an Embedded User and Entity Behavior Analytics Engine
by Angela Guess A new press release states, “Fortscale Security Ltd., the innovator in machine learning-based user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) for security, today introduced Fortscale Presidio™, the industry’s first embedded UEBA engine that natively expands capabilities of existing security solutions. The unveiling comes as the company secures $7M in its latest funding round, […]
Microservices 101: Changing the Monolithic Data Architecture Model
In May 2011, a group of software architects at a workshop near Venice used the word “microservice” to describe a process they had recently worked on. The philosophical essence of a microservice can be described as, “Focus on one task and do it well.” Microservices are a flexible, single-purpose software program essentially compatible with any […]