Apache Drills into Hadoop
It’s a big week for Big Data and the open source Hadoop ecosystem. The Apache Hadoop 2.6.0 project was released on Nov. 30, and today the Apache Drill project announced it had become a top level project in the Apache…
It’s a big week for Big Data and the open source Hadoop ecosystem. The Apache Hadoop 2.6.0 project was released on Nov. 30, and today the Apache Drill project announced it had become a top level project in the Apache…
In the modern world, understanding data is a prized and valuable enterprise IT activity. Among the myriad tools available to make sense of data is the popular open-source ELK stack, which includes the Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana technologies. In a…
Hadoop vendor Cloudera has rolled out a new enterprise platform release and improved security controls for Big Data processing. Cloudera Enterprise 5.2 leverages the company’s open-source CDH (Cloudera Distribution of Hadoop) project and provides users with additional enterprise-grade hardening. Additions…
Micro Focus announced today its intention to acquire privately-held Attachmate in a deal valued at approximately $2.3 billion. The deal includes the issuance of 86.60 million shares of Micro Focus to Attachmate’s parent company, Wizard Parent LLC. Micro Focus states…
While companies are interested in using cloud analytics, many of them cite data integration issues as a key hurdle, according to a Ventana Research study mentioned by Loraine Lawson in an IT Business Edge blog post. She includes a quote…
By Michael Collins, BackOffice Associates Establishing a passive data governance strategy is one of the most important steps that organizations can take in ensuring sustainable data quality and relevance. By enabling companies to monitor data that already exists in corporate…
By Scott D. Rosenberg, CEO Miro Consulting This is an exciting, and challenging, time to be a CIO responsible for enhancing the value of IT while reducing spending and keeping up with the breakneck growth of technologies such as cloud…
Logi Analytics, provider of a Web-based data discovery solution, has inked partnerships with more than half a dozen companies over the past year in an effort to expand its presence in the burgeoning Big Data analytics market. This week it…
SoftWatch, a company that earlier this year introduced an analytics application that tracks usage of Microsoft Office across the enterprise, has rolled out another software-as-a-service (SaaS) application that helps managers drill down into software usage patterns. According to Israel-based SoftWatch,…
If there was any doubt that the Big Data market is a platform for big money, those doubts should now disappear. Open-source Big Data startup MapR Technologies today announced a $110 million round of financing, including $80 million of equity…