​​​​This high-level definition of a data platform is meant to help frame conversations about the category and compare vendors and their place in it. The definition itself is a moving target since the technology is evolving so fast. And different vendors want to define the platform differently. If you take away only one paragraph, I ...

For all the business benefits of big data, the big problem is that mainstream enterprises have had to fit together many pieces of software and services themselves, causing many to choke on the complexity. That’s the problem Databricks Inc. aims to solve with its new Delta data warehouse announced on Oct. 25. Delta highlights the ...

More than the newest hot stock after its successful initial public offering today, Cloudera Inc. has an opportunity to take advantage of a once-in-a-generation shift to a new platform for applications that inform or automate decisions with ever-better and ever-faster answers. But investors and customers may be getting ahead of themselves if they assume the ...

Wikibon recently completed its 2017 Big Data Worldwide Forecast. Authored by Wikibon analyst George Gilbert, with help from Wikibon’s Ralph Finos and Peter Burris, the report covers market sizing, growth and trends. This year, we focused specifically on the big data software technologies most important to establishing the strategic business capabilities necessary to achieve big ...

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IBM Corp. demonstrated at its first Watson Developer Conference last week that it has successfully hidden enough of the “rocket science” in machine learning to excite a crowd of 1,300 mainstream developers. That’s right: I said developers, not data scientists. IBM is making a big play to extend the commercial reach of its artificial intelligence-driven ...

As Amazon Web Services prepares to make a “significant announcement” at a press conference in San Francisco Thursday afternoon, speculation is flying about what the leading public cloud unit of Amazon.com Inc. will unveil. As SiliconANGLE reported last week, at least part of the announcement will involve a deal with longtime rival VMware Inc., whose ...

The rapid proliferation of Big Data software has made it unclear what Hadoop stands for today.

When I spent several days at Teradata Corp.’s recent annual analyst event in La Jolla, Calif., I had expected to be treated to a stream of technical details about hardware architectures, database technology comparisons and Business Intelligence (BI) vendor positioning. I was wrong. Instead, Teradata displayed a surprising embrace of the new world of Big ...