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Pentaho Moves Big Data Integration Project to Open Source Apache
Pentaho is open sourcing its Big Data integration engine, known as Pentaho Kettle, moving the entire project to the Apache License Version 2.0. Kettle was previously available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Kettle includes Pentaho’s extract, transform and load (ETL) engine used to move structured and unstructured data between Big Data sources such ...
A Perfect Match: When Big Data Met Node.js
Battery Ventures’ Todd Papaioannou announced live on theCUBE yesterday that he is transitioning out of the venture capital firm to form a new Big Data start-up called Continuity. Papaioannou, speaking live from the Node Summit in San Francisco, was short on details other than to say that Continuity is “in the Hadoop ecosystem” and that ...
Loggly Cutting its Teeth on Machine-Generated Data
There’s no bigger source of Big Data than machine-generated log files. And every business has them. That means there’s a huge opportunity for vendors that monitor and analyze log file data to help developers improve application performance. Just ask Splunk, which is reportedly planning an IPO in the near future. Some industry watchers value the ...
Tableau 7 Adds Needed Enterprise-Class Features
It’s no secret that Tableau Software is popular with end-users, many of whom surreptitiously download the self-service data visualization software onto their desktops without notifying IT. But, as an attendee at Tableau’s user conference put it to me, most users and even IT look at Tableau’s software as “a toy, not a tool.” That’s a perception ...
Embracing the Spreadsheet: Two Approaches to Self-Service Business Intelligence
Business users love Excel. Well, love is probably too strong a word. Let’s say business users are comfortable with Excel for performing daily reporting and analytic tasks. But the ubiquitous Microsoft spreadsheet application has some serious drawbacks. Namely, business users often end up dragging data into isolated Excel spreadsheets for analysis, resulting in small, disjointed ...
Attivio Taps CSC for European Consulting Partnership
Attivio announced earlier this week that it has partnered with IT services provider CSC to expand its presence in Europe. CSC will distribute and provide support services for Attivio’s unified information access platform in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and throughout Central Europe. The platform, called Attivio Active Intelligence Engine, enables developers to build analytic end-user applications ...
SAS Institute Adapts to the Big Data Era
The original SAS software package, which debuted over 35 years ago, was designed to run on IBM mainframes. A lot has changed in the world of IT since then, and SAS has evolved to keep up. The latest stage in SAS’s evolution is a re-architecting of its software to run optimally in distributed computing environments. ...
Tableau Software Keeps Up Its Momentum, Nearly Double’s Sales in 2011
2011 was a good year for Tableau Software. The Seattle-based company today reported it nearly doubled sales last year, posting a 94% increase over 2010 sales figures. In Q4 2011, sales increased 104% over Q4 2010. The private company did not put a number on overall sales, but by my accounting Tableau did around $40 ...
Oracle and Cloudera Forge Hadoop/Big Data Partnership
Hadoop sometimes results in strange bedfellows. Oracle announced today that it has forged a partnership with commercial Hadoop distribution vendor Cloudera. Cloudera’s Apache compatible Hadoop distribution, CDH, and its proprietary Hadoop management software, Cloudera Manager, will be included in Oracle’s Big Data Appliance. (Click here for my in-depth analysis of today’s announcement on the Wikibon ...
New Yahoo CEO Thompson Should Make Big Data a Top Priority
Speaking to the Wall Street Journal yesterday, Yahoo’s next CEO Scott Thompson said he plans to return Yahoo to the status of “one of those great iconic brands” on the web by embracing “innovation and disruptive concepts.” Nothing’s more innovative or disruptive right now than Big Data, and Thompson should make leveraging the company’s deep ...