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…
It was a big week for Big Data, with multiple vendors making announcements at this week’s Hadoop Summit in San Jose. Among the big multi-vendor announcements in the Hadoop ecosystem was one from Linux Foundation ODPi (Open Data Platform Initiative)…
When it comes to Big Data, it is hard to overstate the importance of having a clear business strategy. Without this strategy, it is tough to attain a return on investment. Joint research by Capgemini and Informatica found that less…
The Holberton School got its start in 2015, offering the promise of a new way to teach students how to code. Now the school is expanding further, with a new partnership with PagerDuty, an IT incident management firm, that aims…
The OpenStack Mitaka release debuted back in April of this year and with it came a series of updated open source projects, including the Trove database-as-a-service effort. OpenStack developers are now working on the next major iteration of the cloud…
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…
Many enterprise leaders today understand the imperative of embracing digital transformation in the Information Age. A recent study found that modernization and digital transformation projects are driving growth in the enterprise application software market, with worldwide spending in this area…
Thanks to huge growth in data volume, as well as a proliferation of new data sources and data types, enterprises are scrambling to meet pressing data storage and processing needs. Database-as-a-service (DBaaS), which puts data storage and management in the…
It’s been a decade since Hadoop became an Apache software project and released version 0.1.0. The open source project helped launch the Big Data era, created a foundation for most of the big cloud platform providers and changed how enterprises…
The world of NoSQL database technology has many entrants, among them MarkLogic. This week the company announced some of the new features it is building into its MarkLogic 9 database, slated to become generally available in December of this year.…