It’s been a few months since data migration and integration vendor Syncsort completed its acquisition of Data Quality solutions vendor Trillium Software. The combination of the two vendors is already proving a good fit, mirroring where the industry is going, according to Harald Smith, Director of Product Management at Trillium. As he explains it, Syncsort […]
Cray to Provide Cray Urika-GX System to the Alan Turing Institute
by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. today announced the Company will provide a Cray® Urika®-GX system to the Alan Turing Institute through a collaboration between Cray, Intel, and the Institute. Hosted at the University of Edinburgh in the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), the Cray Urika-GX system will […]
How to Prevent A Data Lake from Becoming a Data Swamp
Click to learn more about video blogger Andrew Brust. The Big Data & Brews video blog series continues with host Andrew Brust, Senior Director of Market Strategy and Intelligence at Datameer. The series touches on hot topics within the business of Big Data, Analytics, Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Modern BI, NoSQL and Next […]
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 […]
Talend Accelerates Big Data Pipeline Development for Microsoft Azure
by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “Talend, a global leader in cloud and big data integration solutions, today unveiled a new set of connectors for the Talend Data Fabric platform that helps customers rapidly migrate enterprise-wide data sources to Microsoft Azure to build more intelligent and scalable cloud data pipelines for real-time […]
Thomson Reuters Launches Startup Incubator
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “Thomson Reuters today announced the launch of Thomson Reuters Labs™ – The Incubator. Located in Switzerland, the Incubator will host early-stage entrepreneurs building next-generation products in big data, advanced analytics, distributed ledgers, artificial intelligence, machine learning and other transformational technologies. As part of the official program, […]
Orchard Platform and Experian Collaborate to Help Investors Navigate Big Data Challenges
by Angela Guess A new press release reports, “Experian® and Orchard Platform, the leading provider of data, technology and software to the online lending industry, have joined together to announce a strategic collaboration that will give institutional investors access to Experian’s depersonalized consumer credit data. Orchard’s institutional clients can use depersonalized credit data for ongoing […]
Concurrent and Alluxio Team to Provide Scalable Data Analytics at Memory Speed
by Angela Guess A new press release states, “Concurrent, a global leader in storage, protection, transformation and delivery of visual assets, and Alluxio, developers of the world’s first system that unifies data at memory speed, today announced a joint solution that provides real-time data analytics and machine learning to help service providers analyze viewers’ preferences […]
Enhanced Real-Time Data Processing with Redis Labs’ In-Memory Database Solution
In 2009, Salvatore Sanfilippo began the Redis project, a supplemental software program designed to improve LLOOGG (currently an open source project), by helping it to process data more quickly and efficiently. From there, the Redis project blossomed into Redis Labs, providing services and products to augment a customer’s Data Management potential through an advanced, NoSQL, […]
Data Science Birds of a Feather
Click to learn more about author Steve Miller. I had lunch with Diego Klabjan the other day. Diego’s a professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern University and progenitor/director of the now five year old Master of Science in Analytics (MSIA) program at the school. MSIA was recently rated one of the top […]