DevOps, which Wikipedia defines as “a culture, movement or practice that emphasizes the collaboration and communication of both software developers and other IT professionals while automating the process of software delivery and infrastructure changes,” will play a key role in…
What does hybrid transaction/analytical processing (HTAP), a database technology that uses in-memory capabilities to perform OLAP (online analytical processing) and OLTP (online transaction processing) at the same time, have to do with the port authority of Hamburg, Germany? One of…
Lyft knows a thing or two about how to scale a company, growing from zero to a global business in just a few short years. A core element to the ride-sharing provider’s success was figuring out how to scale its…
By James Bickers Mobile business intelligence, at its core, asks two simple questions: Where are your customers right now, and what are they doing? This information can add some powerful marketing abilities to your arsenal. Given this, there seems to…
While Big Data still garners the lion’s share of attention, companies are increasingly looking to so-called fast data for real-time streaming data analytics to give them a competitive edge. “We are seeing so many use cases and business applications across…
Graph databases, which use graph structures for semantic queries, came into prominence through social networks like Facebook and Twitter. But they’re used for far more now than just linking connections between friends and relatives. Graph databases give organizations the capability…
Data visualization has come a long way in recent years. Where once you might get an occasional bar chart or pie chart as part of a business intelligence (BI) report, now software can tailor graphically appealing screens to different types…
At the center of this week’s Spark Summit is the open source Apache Spark technology, which has emerged in recent years to become a foundational element of Big Data application and analytics stacks. While the Spark Summit, which highlights open…
Finance departments are finally beginning to lessen their reliance on spreadsheets and use more advanced analytics. Cognizant of this, Host Analytics delivered improved reporting and analysis capabilities with the latest release of its Host Analytics Performance Platform, announced last week.…
The explosion in different data types – including structured and unstructured, Big Data and Fast Data – has resulted in a corresponding increase in databases for many organizations, some of them on-premise and others in the cloud. Realizing this, Dell…