Technology companies often have unusual names that have little to do with the company’s actual business. Hulu, for example, comes from a Chinese proverb in which Hulu is described as a “holder of precious things.” Startup MemSQL, however, took a…
By Mark Field, QuickBase “We’ve got an app for that.” Once a memorable advertising catch-phrase, this is now an IT worker’s dream and — potentially — a chief digital officer’s worst nightmare. As businesses undergo digital transformation, more employees are…
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…
Chief data officers (CDOs) are playing a strategic role in many — though not all — organizations, thanks to the importance of analytics, Big Data and data science in the enterprise. For CDOs to be considered strategic, they must operate…
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 Dan Sholler Big Data represents one of the biggest opportunities and biggest challenges facing organizations today. There is tremendous expectation that if we could only get our hands on the right data and analyze it the right way, great…
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 lakes sound simple: Pool data or information into a Big Data system that combines processing speed with storage — a Hadoop cluster or an in-memory solution — so the business can access it for new insight. As with so…
By John Hughes, ManageForce When Microsoft released SQL Server 2016, the release was accompanied by a slew of advanced features heavily tailored to make data more malleable and useful for business. In that light, one of the most exciting features…
