Click here to learn more about author Andrew Sohn. The Internet of Things (IoT) is generating countless numbers of interactions between devices every day—in all kinds of different ways. But the consequences of these interactions aren’t about the Internet or the things at all. What IoT is all about is data. The lifecycle of an […]
Don’t Put the Cart Before the Horse When It Comes to Big Data
Click here to learn more about author Dave Brunswick. The sheer volume of information – and its various formats – is what makes data “Big Data.” Attempting to manage Big Data across business units, continents, and data centers with traditional, un-scalable tools is a major underestimation of modern needs. So something very important must happen […]
How to Dive into Data Lakes and Not Drown
Kyvos Insights has a question for Enterprise Analytics executives: How are your Data Lakes working out for you? For many that embarked on journeys to stock up Hadoop based Data Lakes, with everything from structured transaction records to non-relational data such as log files, Internet clickstream records, sensor data, social streams, and so on, the answer has been […]
SnapLogic Enhances Leading Integration Platform
by Angela Guess A new release reports,”SnapLogic, the industry’s leading unified data and application integration platform as a service (iPaaS), today introduced the Fall 2016 release of its SnapLogic Elastic Integration Platform. The latest release adds several new pre-built intelligent connectors, called Snaps, to help companies integrate and accelerate their cloud and big data initiatives. […]
Digital Start-ups Feared by 78% of Businesses
Business Wire has reported 78% of businesses believe digital start-ups will pose a threat to their organization, either now or in the future, according to new research from Dell Technologies announced today. This phenomenon is propelling innovative companies forward and accelerating the demise of others. Almost half (45%) of global businesses surveyed fear they may […]
Informatica’s Analytics Package Organizes Big Data Lakes
Informatica has come up with a new analytics package to organize Big Data Lakes. Computers, mobile devices and smart sensors are generating trillions of pieces of data around the world at an unprecedented rate. Tiny sensors collect soil data for farmers, wearable devices accumulate data about our health, scanners track consumer purchases. The list of […]
Informatica Enables New Analytics Stack to Power Today’s Data-Driven Businesses
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “Driven by trends in cloud, big data and self-service analytics powered by visualization, data lakes and cloud data warehousing, a new analytics stack is emerging that promises transparent access to vital data across all sources, formats and platforms for every business user. This new stack is […]
SnapLogic Introduces Intelligent Connectors for Microsoft Azure Data Lake Store
by Angela Guess A new press release reports, “SnapLogic, the industry’s first unified data and application integration platform as a service (iPaaS), today announced the availability of new pre-built intelligent connectors — called Snaps — for Microsoft Azure Data Lake Store. The new Snaps provide fast, self-service data ingestion and transformation from virtually any source […]
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Introduces HPE Vertica 8
by Angela Guess A new press release out of the company reports, “Hewlett Packard Enterprise today announced the next release of HPE Vertica, codenamed “Frontloader.” HPE Vertica 8 introduces a unified architecture and advanced in-database analytics capabilities that enable users to conduct sophisticated analysis at industry-leading scale and speed, regardless of where their data resides. One of […]
Data Lakes 101: An Overview
A Data Lake is a pool of unstructured and structured data, stored as-is, without a specific purpose in mind, that can be “built on multiple technologies such as Hadoop, NoSQL, Amazon Simple Storage Service, a relational database, or various combinations thereof,” according to a white paper called What is a Data Lake and Why Has […]