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It’s not exactly the most exciting part of large-scale analytics projects, but managing data access is among the most essential. After all, making a file available to the appropriate stakeholders within an organization is the prerequisite to processing its contents, whether for the …
What you missed in Big Data: Simplicity is king
A dataset is only as useful as a business user can make it, which is why the industry has spent the last few years trying to streamline the analytics process as much as possible. That effort crossed a new milestone last week …
What you missed in Cloud: It’s all about productivity
The cloud-based productivity camp stole back the spotlight from the infrastructure-as-a-service titans last week after Dropbox Inc. relaunched the group messaging service gained through its acquisition of stealth startup Zulip Inc. under a free license. The move marks the latest twist in …
StreamSets bags $12.5 from big-name VCs to simplify data transportation
Logistics have been the Achilles’ heel of many grand endeavors, and large-scale analytics projects are no exception. Moving data from different sources to a central location for processing is a challenge so monumental that several different vendors have emerged to try and tackle …
IBM upgrades Watson’s eyes and ears
The billion-dollar investment that IBM Corp. made in its Watson division last year is starting to bear fruit in the form of new capabilities that are rolling out to the cloud-based incarnation of the artificial intelligence this morning to help developers build …
Tamr launches its enterprise metadata catalog into public beta
There are few better ways to drive interest in a commercial software product than releasing a free demo version, which is the strategy Tamr Inc. has decided to take with its metadata catalog. That helped attract more than 300 early testers whose feedback played …
Study: Spark is outgrowing, and increasingly displacing, Hadoop
A rift is forming in the open-source ecosystem that may drastically alter the trajectory of modern analytics. Apache Spark, the speedy in-memory data crunching engine developed to take Hadoop beyond batch processing, is increasingly drifting away from the project as new use cases …
Syncsort pulls security data from mainframes into Splunk’s log analytics platform
One of the areas where the inaccessibility of data stored in mainframes impacts organizations the most is security. With a sizable portion of the world’s transactional activity still being handled on big iron, it’s imperative to have a view of what’s happening inside, …
Splunk retools its log analytics platform for the Internet of Things
Attendees of Splunk Inc.’s sixth annual conference in Las Vegas were greeted by a raft of updates this morning that open a new chapter in the vendor’s efforts to expand its business beyond merely providing a platform for processing machine-generated data to …
Oracle debuts all-in-one cloud platform for midsize companies
Oracle Corp. is broadening its plans to become a one-stop-shop for cloud services beyond large enterprises to the midmarket with the launch of a new platform that bundles three of the top operational capabilities on the CIO’s wishlist under a unified contract. It’s …