Amazon AWS for the enterprise has become such the mainstay that Mike Dauber, general partner of early stage venture capital fund Amplify Partners, said that it’s practically become the new OS. “If you’re starting a company, you need to look at how are you building on top of Amazon and how you partner with the ecosystem,” ...

At Amazon re:Invent 2015, Amazon announced QuickSight, a cloud-powered business intelligence service that allows users to analyze and get insights from their data. The announcement evidences Amazon’s continuing foray into the analytics space. Self-service data preparation platform Trifacta, which partners with Amazon, is optimistic about Amazon’s progress in this market. Will Davis, director of product ...

As the cloud becomes mainstream, cybercriminals have more to target. In its newly released Fall 2015 Cloud Security Report, Security-as-a-Service provider Alert Logic, Inc. reported that cyberattack methods aimed at cloud deployments grew by up to 45 percent. However, there was no increase in attacks against on-premises deployments. During Amazon re:Invent 2015 in Las Vegas, Misha Govshteyn, ...

Jason Zintak, Platfora, Inc.’s new CEO, echoed the insights of many during BigDataNYC 2015 when he said that the focus of the neighboring Strata+Hadoop World event was on business use cases rather than cost or functionality. “The insights that people are gaining are more than just cost savings,” he said during an interview with Dave ...

During conferences such as Strata+Hadoop World, which takes place in conjunction with BigDataNYC 2015, attendees often want to know what makes a product special. Now that Databricks, Inc., the company founded by the creators of Apache Spark, has a few years under its belt, prospective customers want to know how its colleagues deploy Databricks and the ...

Aerospike, a NoSQL database that delivers speed at scale, may not be the least expensive product on the market (open-sourced products notwithstanding), but price isn’t its focus anyway. “Our primary message is that we enable you to do things you could never do before,” said Aerospike, Inc.’s VP of Strategy and Market Development Peter Goldmacher. Goldmacher ...

As businesses across industries recognize the value in analytics, Tableau Software, Inc. leads the charge with analytics software and business intelligence solutions for a wide range of businesses. The Seattle-based company recently released Tableau 9.1, which offers new capabilities and ways to analyze data. “Tableau 9.1 makes data more accessible than before,” Tableau Product Manager Jeff Feng told ...

Open Enterprise Hadoop leader Hortonworks, Inc. announced at BigDataNYC 2015 and Strata + Hadoop World that its DataFlow support subscription is now available. Hortonworks DataFlow is powered by Apache nifi, an open-source project, and addresses opportunities presented by the Internet of Anything. “DataFlow came out of the Onyara acquisition,” said Wei Wang, senior director of global ...

InfoObjects, Inc., a technology consulting company, took a risk when it began offering Apache Spark training and recommending Spark for enterprise data and other sectors. “We took a big bet on Spark,” said InfoObjects CEO Rishi Yadav, who spoke with John Furrier and George Gilbert, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during BigDataNYC 2015. ...

As we move into 2016, not only does the technology conversation need to change, but it must adopt a new alphabet, according to Abhi Mehta, CEO of Tresata, Inc., which provides a software platform for real-time customer intelligence management. “The ABCD of our ecosystem would be: analytics, Big Data, cloud and decision sciences,” Mehta explained ...