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The eight must-have elements for resilient big data apps
Supreet Oberoi, Concurrent August 23, 2014 http://gigaom.com/2014/08/23/the-eight-must-have-elements-for-resilient-big-data-apps If your company is building big data applications, here are eight things you need to consider. As big data applications move from proof-of-concept to production, resiliency becomes an urgent concern. When applications lack resiliency, they may fail when data sets are too large, they lack transparency into testing […]
READ MOREHow Hadoop Can Extend the Life of Your Legacy Assets
Supreet Oberoi, VP Field Engineering, Concurrent, Inc. August 18, 2014 http://insights.wired.com/profiles/blogs/how-hadoop-can-extend-the-life-of-your-legacy-assets The fragmentation of data across repositories is accelerating. Much of the new data growth is occurring inside Hadoop, but it is clear that enterprise data warehouses won’t be shut down anytime soon. This situation leads to a familiar but urgent question: If we cannot […]
READ MOREConcurrent and Elasticsearch Team Up to Accelerate Data Application Deployment
Daniel Gutierrez, Inside Big Data August 4, 2014 http://inside-bigdata.com/2014/08/04/concurrent-elasticsearch-team-accelerate-data-application-deployment Concurrent, Inc., a leader in data application infrastructure, and Elasticsearch, Inc., provider of an end-to-end real-time search and analytics stack, has announced a partnership to accelerate the time to market for Hadoop-based enterprise data applications. Enterprises seeking to make the most out of their Big Data […]
READ MOREEmerging Vendors 2014: Big Data Vendors
Rick Whiting, CRN July 30, 2014 http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/applications-os/300073545/emerging-vendors-2014-big-data-vendors-part-1.htm/pgno/0/13 Rising Big Data Stars Technology for managing and analyzing big data is one of the fastest-growing segments of the IT industry right now. And it’s an area where innovative startups seem to have a competitive edge over the major, established IT vendors. What’s more, the vendors on this […]
READ MOREBig Data 50 – the hottest Big Data startups of 2014
Jeff Vance, Startup50 July 28, 2014 Big Data 50 – the hottest Big Data startups of 2014 From “Fast Data” to visualization software to tools used to track “Social Whales,” these Big Data startups have it covered. The 50 Big Data startups in the Big Data 50 are an impressive lot. In fact, the Big […]
READ MOREQuestioning the Lambda Architecture
Jay Kreps, Radar Jul 2, 2014 http://radar.oreilly.com/2014/07/questioning-the-lambda-architecture.html The Lambda Architecture has its merits, but alternatives are worth exploring. Nathan Marz wrote a popular blog post describing an idea he called the Lambda Architecture (“How to beat the CAP theorem“). The Lambda Architecture is an approach to building stream processing applications on top of MapReduce and […]
READ MORESlideshow: New products of the week 06.30.14
Ellen Messmer, NetworkWorld Jun 30, 2014 http://www.networkworld.com/article/2449011/security/157851-new-products-of-the-week-06-30-14.html Visit the link above to view the full slideshow. Driven 1.0 is featured on slide #25.
READ MORETableau, Cambridge Semantics, Pentaho, Others Introduce New or Updated Products
Staff, Information Management Jun 27, 2014 http://www.information-management.com/ ASG Software Solutions launched version 8.0 of its CloudFactory platform. CloudFactory 8.0 provides one tool to manage all of an organization’s IT environments – from the mainframe to the cloud, and everything in between – solving efficiency, productivity, security and compliance issues. BlazeMeter, provider of the JMeter-based performance […]
READ MOREData analytics world gets new releases, new partnerships, en masse
Andrew Brust, GigaOM Jun 25, 2014 http://research.gigaom.com/2014/06/data-analytics-world-gets-new-releases-new-partnerships-en-masse During my week in San Francisco for the Gigaom Structure conference last week, and continuing the early part of this week, a slew of important announcements were made in the Big Data and analytics space. While the volume of announcements would normally be a lot to cover, we […]
READ MORE10 More Powerful Facts About Big Data
Jeff Bertolucci, Information Week Jun 18, 2014 http://www.informationweek.com/big-data/hardware-architectures/10-more-powerful-facts-about-big-data–/d/d-id/1278598 I know what you Hadoop-ed last summer: Welcome to big data facts, the sequel. When we recently posted a slideshow examining the latest trends in big data, readers responded in a big way. You want more facts and context on big data — though the term itself […]
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