Early Bird Pricing Open for Data Summit 2015

Early bird registration is now available for Data Summit 2015, which will take place Monday, May 11, through Wednesday, May 13, at the New York Hilton Midtown. Register by April 11 to take advantage of the super early bird rates.

Posted February 23, 2015

New MapR Distribution Release Supports the Real-Time, Data-Centric Enterprise

MapR Technologies has introduced the latest version of the MapR Distribution including Hadoop, with new features that support real-time applications on globally-distributed, big and fast data.The company also launched three new quick start solutions to help jump-start customers' Hadoop deployments with MapR. The quick start solutions, which address common and high value Hadoop use cases.

Posted February 19, 2015

Oracle Big Data Discovery and GoldenGate for Big Data Make Enterprise Big Data a “Team Sport”

Oracle has begun shipping its new Oracle Big Data Discovery and Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data products. With Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data, the technology, which is used to replicate data from system to system in real time, adds Hadoop as a target environment, and with Big Data Discovery, Oracle provides an end to end environment that is visual and intuitive in order to allow business analysts and business users to participate in the big data analytics process.

Posted February 19, 2015

New Couchbase Server Integration with Hortonworks Data Platform

Couchbase has announced integration between its high-performance NoSQL database Couchbase Server 3.0.2 and the Hortonworks Data Platform 2.2, an open Hadoop data platform, via distributed messaging with Apache Kafka and stream processing via Apache Storm.

Posted February 19, 2015

New Release of Oracle EPM System Provides Greater Functionality and Decision-Making Agility

Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) System Release 11.1.2.4, now available from Oracle, incorporates key updates to the entire portfolio of EPM applications that enable organizations to engineer predictable performance, connect the enterprise, and further improve decision-making.

Posted February 18, 2015

It's All About the Data: The Internet of Things Raises Connectivity to a New Level

The "Internet of Things" (IoT) is opening up a new world of data interchange between devices, sensors, and applications, enabling businesses to monitor, in real time, the health and performance of products long after they leave the production premises. At the same time, enterprises now have access to valuable data—again, in real time if desired—on how customers are adopting products and services.

Posted February 18, 2015

Informatica and Cisco Partner on Data Warehouse Optimization Solution that Works with Hadoop

Informatica, a provider of data integration software, has announced a joint Data Warehouse Optimization solution with Cisco for organizations looking to modernize data management. The Data Warehouse Optimization solution works with a customer's Apache Hadoop distribution of choice, including Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR.

Posted February 18, 2015

Pentaho to Deliver On Demand Big Data Analytics

Pentaho, which is in the process of being acquired by Hitachi, has opened its data refinery - which transforms raw data into actionable information - to Amazon Redshift and Cloudera Impala.

Posted February 18, 2015

Syncsort Completes Purchase of UK-Based Williams Data Systems

Syncsort, a provider of big data and mainframe software, has completed the acquisition of UK-based William Data Systems, a provider of advanced network monitoring and security software products for the IBM z Systems z/OS mainframe platform. According to Syncsort, because the mainframe is a high-volume transactional supercomputer, the networking and security data collected by the William Data product suite is particularly valuable to fast-growing big data and analytical platforms.

Posted February 18, 2015

HP Introduces Free, Open Source Predictive Analytics Software

HP has introduced a new offering called HP Haven Predictive Analytics to accelerate and operationalize large-scale machine learning and statistical analysis.

Posted February 18, 2015

GridGain Announces Version 7.0 In-Memory Data Fabric Built on Apache Ignite

GridGain Systems, provider of open source and commercial in-memory data fabric solutions, is introducing a new release of the GridGain In-Memory Data Fabric Enterprise Edition built on Apache Ignite. Available for download in early in Q2, the new release includes ease-of-use and automation features to help simplify the deployment of the software as well as the migration from legacy in-memory data grids.

Posted February 18, 2015

Software AG and Wipro Dive into the Internet of Things

Software AG and Wipro Ltd. announced a joint solution platform for streaming analytics that provides real-time actionable intelligence for the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) market. The solution, branded as Wipro Looking Glass, is engineered to respond to events in real-time with unlimited scalability.

Posted February 17, 2015

RapidMiner Creates Self-Service Analytics for Hadoop

RapidMiner is releasing self-service analytics for Hadoop. RapidMiner offers a solution that accelerates time to value for building and deploying advanced analytic models with numerous types of data. "Our value is around accelerating time to value for our customers. We do this through pre-built models which we call accelerators," stated Michele Chambers, president and COO at RapidMiner.

Posted February 17, 2015

Tamr Updates Enterprise Data Unification Platform

Tamr, Inc., has introduced a new version of its scalable data unification platform that lets enterprises continuously deliver better data to decision-makers. In a related announcement, Tamr also unveiled two data-unification solutions for specific, high-value data variety challenges: Tamr for CDISC and Tamr for Procurement. Founded in 2013 by big data entrepreneurs Andy Palmer and Michael Stonebraker, Tamr is based in Cambridge, Mass.

Posted February 17, 2015

Introducing N1QL in Couchbase Server

N1QL is a distributed query engine with powerful secondary index options and incremental map/reduce views. Join DBTA for a special webcast sponsored by NoSQL vendor Couchbase to look at the query engine details and indexing capabilities. The webcast will take place, Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 11 am PT/2 pm ET and one attendee will win a $100 American Express gift card during the live event!

Posted February 17, 2015

Datameer Introduces Big Data Analytics Platform for Hadoop-as-a-Service

To help simplify Hadoop deployments, Datameer is partnering with cloud providers Altiscale and Bigstep, to introduce Datameer Professional, a SaaS big data analytics platform targeted at department-specific deployments.

Posted February 17, 2015

Pivotal Expands the Big Data Ecosystem with Three Bold Big Data Moves

Hadoop heavyweight Pivotal is open sourcing components of its Big Data Suite, including Pivotal HD, HAWQ, Greenplum Database, and GemFire; forming the Open Data Platform (ODP), a new industry foundation along with founding members GE, Hortonworks, IBM, Infosys, SAS, and other big data leaders; and forging a new business and technology partnership with Hortonworks.

Posted February 17, 2015

IOUG to Present Track at Data Summit 2015 in NYC - May 11-13

The IOUG (Independent Oracle Users Group) is joining DBTA as a conference partner at the Data Summit 2015 conference, a comprehensive conference focused on information management and big data for technology and database professionals. The IOUG track at the Data Summit will focus on big data in the cloud and the evolution of the data warehouse.

Posted February 12, 2015

Special Report on Data Lake Success Strategies Now Available

Unisphere Research and Radiant Advisors have announced the publication of a brand new report on the emerging concepts and strategies surrounding the data lake. "We wrote The Definitive Guide to the Data Lake to provide guidance to those considering the data lake by sharing the findings of companies within our research and advisory network that are actively implementing data lake strategies today," said John O'Brien, CEO of Radiant Advisors.

Posted February 11, 2015

Not Your Father’s Data Warehouse Anymore

In the early days of data warehousing, lines were very simple. The data warehouse reflected the business. In providing this reflection, data was summarized, data was cleansed, data was standardized, and data was even drastically reformatted for legibility and reporting usage. But, the big rule of thumb, the never-to-be-crossed line, was that the data warehouse did not create new data.

Posted February 11, 2015

Does the Looming Shortage in DBAs Spell Opportunity?

It's already a great time to be a DBA or to consider becoming one. U.S. News & World Report ranks the DBA profession as the No. 5 best IT job and the #12 overall best professional jobs for 2014. The job outlook is very strong at 15% growth year-over-year, far greater than the U.S. economy in general and the IT industry in particular. For added context, consider that the business world is now enamored with data, analytics, and data visualization.

Posted February 11, 2015

The Impact of Change on Database Structures

When the data requirements of an organization change, the databases used to store the data must also change. Unfortunately, today's database systems do not make managing database change particularly easy.

Posted February 11, 2015

Everywhere I Go, Application Performance Slows Down My Life

I woke up early to get to the airport to ensure a timely check-in. When I got to the desk, the airline representative asked for my name and destination, keyed it in and we waited for the system to respond. The next words out of her mouth were, "Sorry, the system is slow today, you know how it is."

Posted February 11, 2015

MultiValue Special Section: MutliValue Vendors Pushing Boundaries

There are always new buzzwords coming along. But whether you call it "SMAC" or "CAMS," there is no doubt that today the confluence of trends—analytics, cloud, social, and mobile—is proving to be a disruptive force that is causing many to reassess their approaches to data management. Over the years, MultiValue technologies have evolved and adapted, pushing boundaries in order to integrate with new data sources and targets, address new analytics needs, and keep pace with emerging requirements. This has enabled customers to continue to rely on their trusted, and often highly specialized, MultiValue applications and data management systems.

Posted February 11, 2015

Deploying New Technologies to Leverage Big Data

Attunity recently added new capabilities to its solution suite with the acquisition of BIReady's data warehouse automation technology, which eliminates the complex, manual tasks of preparing data for BI and big data analytics. Lawrence Schwartz, Attunity's vice president of marketing, spoke with DBTA about BIReady and other Attunity solutions for customers dealing with big data projects.

Posted February 11, 2015

Teradata Announces New Big Data Products and Services

Teradata is introducing new big data applications that incorporate recently acquired capabilities and technologies from Revelytix and Thing Big Analytics. The new offerings include solutions targeted to specific verticals such as retail and healthcare, new Teradata Loom 2.4 capabilities to expand the depth and breadth of metadata in the data lake, and a new fixed price/fixed time-frame data lake optimization service offering. The new products and services are targeted at extending big data competency to more non-data scientist users, and helping companies gain additional value from their data lake projects, said Chris Twogood, vice president of product and services marketing at Teradata.

Posted February 11, 2015

MarkLogic 8 Goes GA with Server-Side JavaScript Support and Free Cloud Deployment Offer

MarkLogic 8 supports server-side JavaScript and JSON, and includes enterprise feat