Click to learn more about author Andrew Brust. In the first part of this column we looked at industry trends that have contributed to the creation of market demand for Public Cloud solutions, what’s in the Cloud Analytics stack and Amazon integration pairs. If you missed it, check out part one first. A Difference of […]
Cloud Platforms for Analytics: The House Brand Ain’t Always Enough
Click to learn more about author Andrew Brust. Today’s leading Cloud Platforms include numerous components for storing, processing and analyzing large volumes of data. All the basics are there: storage, analysis and processing, streaming data processing, data pipelining, data warehousing, BI and even AI. But while it’s great to have all those raw components, how […]
How to Embrace Digital Transformation in Data Management
Click to learn more about author Avneet Narang. The only way that companies can stay in the race in today’s severely competitive business environment is by implementing advanced tools and technologies in daily operations. Top of the list of priorities should be Data Management. This is primarily because of the deluge of data generated from […]
How Customized Data Mining Benefits Your Business
Click to learn more about author David Anderson. In a world ruled supreme by data, it has never been more important to find efficient ways of mining it for valuable information. Data Mining is the process in which businesses sift through data in order to find relevant information. Its primary goal is to predict future […]
Data Quality in the Enterprise
The target of many conference talks, backroom jokes, and late nights for data professionals in the Data Management industry is Data Quality. Data technologies and data assets have no meaning without reliable Data Quality, and yet there still is not enough attention given to data acquisition, data storage, and data preparation methodologies that are substance […]
Hitachi Vantara Launches Pentaho 8.0 With Real-Time Data Processing
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “Hitachi Vantara, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., today unveiled the next generation of its Pentaho data integration and analytics platform software. Pentaho 8.0 is enhanced and provides support for Spark and Kafka to improve data and stream processing, plus the ability to easily match compute […]
A Year of Blink at Alibaba: Apache Flink in Large Scale Production
Click to learn more about author Xiaowei Jiang. It has been a great year for Blink, our fork of Apache Flink®, at Alibaba. We went into production with Blink about a year ago, and since then, we have used it to make real-time updates to listings in various search products such as Taobao, Tmall, AliExpress, etc. […]
SnapLogic Expands Library of Intelligent Connectors
by Angela Guess A new release out of the company reports, “SnapLogic, the industry’s first unified data and application integration platform as a service (iPaaS), today introduced the Summer 2016 release of its SnapLogic Elastic Integration Platform. The Summer 2016 release brings new additions to SnapLogic’s library of more than 400 intelligent connectors called Snaps, […]