Teradata Aster gets graph database, HDFS-compatible file store
When Teradata bought Aster Data in 2011, it set out on a quest to bring (then) esoteric Big Data technology to the relational database faithful.Ā Specifically, Aster's SQL-MapReduce facility allowed specialists to write MapReduce code that would be executed not ...
Has Hadoop Entered the Mainstream?
After all the hype around Apache Hadoop, we are starting to see some successful implementations that highlight its benefits. However, we do not yet see the kind of enterprise adoption typically associated with a technology that promises to manage high ...
ScaleOut Pushes Hadoop Towards Low-Latency for Real-Time Analytics
OK, so the headline is a tad extreme, but bear with me. Recent developments combining in-memory technologies and Hadoop/MapReduce from ScaleOut Software point to a future where big data analytics and real-time processing, as it's defined in the financial markets, ...
Data Visualization-Drawing Actionable Big Data Insights
āSo much data, so little time.ā Thatās how a lot of companies feel about the explosion of Big Data. After all, the thought of capturing, analyzing and somehow getting insights from mountains of disparate data can be overwhelming. And not ...
ForeScout and Splunk team on Big Data and security intelligence
ForeScout Technologies Inc., a leading provider of pervasive network security solutions for Fortune 1000 enterprises and government organisations, today announced a technology partnership with Splunk Inc., the leading software platform for real-time operational intelligence.
In conjunction with the partnership, ForeScout has ...
3 Ways to Move SQL into Hadoop Faster
Despite the increasing interest in unstructured data, much of the world's information still lives in some form of relational database.Ā Firing up your first Hadoop cluster often means moving data from existing SQL tables, maybe hosted in SQL Server, MySQL ...
Big Data, Apple Driving Industry’s Biggest Salaries
Enterprises may still not know exactly what value they expect to glean from Big Data, but that hasn't stopped them from spending big money on Big Data skills like Hadoop and NoSQL. According to a 2013 Dice Tech Salary Survey, ...
Big Data Still Needs a Human Touch
In July, I brought my 15-month-old and 4-year-old sons to a medical center in Palo Alto. Eight weeks earlier, I had moved to California to launch my company Hexigo in the U.S., and it was time to see a doctor ...
Improving the Big Data Toolkit
Open source software tends to march into the marketplace step by step, a quiet but steady strategy compared with the grand marketing events of the commercial software world. And Hadoop, the bedrock software of the fast-growing Big Data business, is ...
IBM expands work on big data governance
IBM wants to help IT managers apply company policies to their big data analysis projects.
The company will be introducing new products and features to help organizations manage their new big data systems with the same rigor that they manage other ...