Scaling applications for COVID-19 spikes
Thursday, July 23, 2020 by Nikita Ivanov
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to shelter-in-place and lockdown orders that are dramatically changing both business and consumer behavior. Online activity is soaring, and many businesses, such as those in food delivery, ecommerce and remote access and collaboration services, are experiencing exploding demand for their services. Many of these businesses have struggled to ...
New APM platform uses AI and runs on Amazon EMR
Monday, December 10, 2018 by Richard Harris
Unravel Data, the application performance management (APM) platform designed for big data workloads, has introduced a full-stack, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven solution for big data workloads running on Amazon EMR. Amazon EMR is a cloud service that enables big data processing using Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Impala, Hive, and other big data components across dynamical...
Machine learning data science platform drops by SnapLogic
Tuesday, November 20, 2018 by Austin Harris
SnapLogic announced SnapLogic Data Science, a new self-service solution to accelerate the development and deployment of machine learning with minimal coding. Through SnapLogic’s drag-and-drop interface, data engineers, data scientists, and IT/DevOps teams can use SnapLogic Data Science to manage and control the entire machine learning lifecycle - including data ac...
RAPIDS data access acceleration comes to MapR
Friday, October 12, 2018 by Austin Harris
MapR Technologies, Inc. has announced support within the MapR Data Platform to accelerate data access and production deployments for data science through the RAPIDS open-source software. MapR helps data scientists accelerate the access of required training data by focusing on easing the issues of on-boarding, cleansing, cataloging, and feeding data at high performance t...
How inmemory computing is driving digital transformation technologies
Monday, August 7, 2017 by Nikita Ivanov
It increasingly seems that every business wants to become a data-driven software company. The success of Airbnb, Alibaba, Netflix and many others has CEOs, CIOs, and CDOs jumping on the digital transformation bandwagon and imagining all the possible ways they can leverage their intellectual property and unique data to deliver a service instead of just shipping products....
deepstreamHub launches realtime apps platform
Wednesday, March 8, 2017 by Austin Harris
The Berlin-based startup deepstreamHub officially launches its platform for developing real-time apps. The platform gives app developers access to all the necessary functions to build reliable and scalable apps with real-time functionality from the ground up. These features include - among others - collaboration, chat and messaging tools; VR, IoT and location tracking a...
Explaining the app development process to clients
Monday, February 20, 2017 by Daniel Szabo
Revenue from mobile apps is expected to reach $70 Billion in 2017. Yet, developing a successful mobile application is not an easy task. As a developer, you understand the mobile app development process, but may struggle to explain it to your clients. This misunderstanding creates challenges in the development process itself, and can even cause an unsuccessful deployment...
NoSQL provider Couchbase releases a new data platform
Friday, February 17, 2017 by Richard Harris
Couchbase, Inc. announced a new release of their data platform that powers web, mobile and IoT (Internet of Things) applications for digital businesses. The enhanced product suite now provides easier global application deployments, advanced security capabilities and greater development flexibility, and includes Server 4.6, Sync Gateway 1.4, Kafka Connector 3.0 and Spark...
MapR Connector for Teradata released
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 by Richard Harris
MapR Technologies, Inc., a Converged Data Platform, has announced availability of a new MapR Connector for Teradata, an analytics solutions company. This provides high speed, parallel connections from Teradata to the MapR Converged Data Platform, improving bulk data transfers, and enabling scalable agile analytics across the ecosystem. The new connector is also certifie...
What AtScale wants you to know about Big Data's future
Thursday, December 29, 2016 by Richard Harris
2017 is looking like it will be the year of BI on Big Data. Seventy-five percent of respondents in the 2016 Big Data Maturity Survey indicated that Business Intelligence is taking over as the #1 workload for Big Data.AtScale, a company that provides enterprises with a fast and secure self-service analytics platform for Big Data, released the results of the survey, based...
MapR Ecosystem Pack program gets an update
Tuesday, December 6, 2016 by Richard Harris
MapR Technologies, Inc. has announced the next major release of the MapR Ecosystem Pack program, a broad set of open source ecosystem projects that enable big data applications running on the MapR Converged Data Platform while ensuring inter-project compatibility. These latest enhancements also add flexible access and provide new capabilities for streaming applications....
Why Microservices are so important
Monday, November 7, 2016 by Jim Scott
Having been a software engineer for nearly 20 years I have an appreciation for what is important when it comes to creating great software. One of the most important things that is not well understood by non-engineers is that the development process is equal parts artistry and logic. I see software architecture to be much like artistry. This is because there is no single...
Ben Markham Chats About Being a Big Data Developer With Apache Hadoop
Wednesday, August 17, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently sat down with Ben Markham, Big Data Architect, Xiilab and ODPi member about developing sensor data solutions, working with Hadoop, what the big data market looks like in South Korea, and how it is to develop for a South Korean company?ADM:You are a developer for Xiilab, what do you do for them?Markham: I develop applications with Spring and Java EE, whi...
BlueData EPIC Software Platform on AWS for Enterprise Is Here
Tuesday, July 12, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
BlueData has released the enterprise edition of its BlueData EPIC software platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other public clouds in the coming months including Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.BlueData facilitates the deployment of Big Data infrastructure and applications, leveraging embedded Docker container technology. The BlueData EPIC software platf...
Dataguise DgSecure 6.0 Release Offers Sensitive Data Monitoring
Saturday, July 9, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Dataguise has released Dataguise DgSecure 6.0, a monitoring solution for all data source types which allows users to detect, protect, and access sensitive data. DgSecure provides the ability to discover, count, and report on sensitive data assets in real time wherever they live or move across data repositories, on premises and in the cloud. It’s a highly scalable a...
New Developer Workforce Initiative to Support the Global Development Work Force
Friday, April 22, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
The Application Developers Alliance has launched the Developer Workforce Initiative to provide resources and support that will engage, educate and help grow the global developer labor force. Initial corporate supporters of the initiative include Apcera, AT&T, Built.io, Ericsson, Facebook, Ford, Google, Intel, and MapR.The Developer Workforce Initiative includes a nu...
Sinequa Introduces New Smart Connectors for Cloud and Big Data Hadoop
Thursday, January 28, 2016 by Richard Harris
Sinequa has announced the availability of new “plug and play” smart connectors for cloud and Big Data Hadoop environments as part of its Big Data Search & Analytics Platform in response to the continuing adoption of cloud and Hadoop within data-intensive organizations. Sinequa now offers more than 150 smart connectors which provide streamlined access to complex...
Faceoff: AnalyticsasApps vs AnalyticsasCode
Tuesday, October 20, 2015 by Apurva Dave
All Hail Point-and-Click Apps!A few years ago consumerization of everything was the rage. The belief was that enterprises would become more productive by rethinking every one of their processes and applying consumer principles to them. Setting up a new datacenter might be like scheduling your laundry service via your phone.Not surprisingly, data analytics were swept up ...
MicroStrategy Secure Cloud Now With Amazon Web Services Integration
Wednesday, July 22, 2015 by Richard Harris
MicroStrategy has announced the general availability of its Secure Cloud platform combining the enterprise analytics, mobile, and security features of MicroStrategy 10 Secure Enterprise with Amazon Web Services data integration, validation, and warehousing services.The MicroStrategy Secure Cloud is an end-to-end solution that is configured to be scalable and elastic. Th...
Kyvos Insights Releases Big Data Analytical Processing Solution for Hadoop
Sunday, July 5, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Kyvos Insights, a new player in the big data analytics industry, has announced the general availability of its first product providing an online analytical processing (OLAP) solution for Hadoop.The Kyvos platform offers a “cubes on Hadoop” platform technology that allows users to visualize, explore and analyze big data interactively, working directly on Hadoop with a to...
Cisco Names ISVs to Offer IoE Services Through Intercloud
Tuesday, June 16, 2015 by Richard Harris
Cisco is expanding its Internet of Everything (IoE) footprint with the announcement that it is partnering with 35 independent software vendors (ISVs) for its Cisco Intercloud cloud service offering. The new ISV partners will offer products concentrating on three areas: next-generation developer platforms, big data and analytics, and IoE cloud services. The Interclo...
Google IO Announcements Include New Developer Services to Build and Optimize
Wednesday, June 25, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Among other things announced today at Google I/O , is the introduction of new services to help developers build and optimize data pipelines, create mobile applications, and debug, trace, and monitor their cloud applications in production. These include:Google Cloud DataflowCloud Dataflow is a fully managed service for creating data pipelines that ingest, transform and a...
RainStor Announces Archive Application for Hadoop 2.0
Tuesday, June 24, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
RainStor, which offers an enterprise data store for big data, has announced the availability of its Archive Application for Hadoop 2.0 as part of its latest release, RainStor 6. The new offering provides the opportunity to deploy an end-to-end solution on Hadoop for managing and analyzing high value, sensitive data. With RainStor’s Archive App, users cond...
Spring Releases Spring XD Milestone 7
Tuesday, June 10, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Spring XD is a unified, distributed, and extensible system for data ingestion, real time analytics, batch processing, and data export. The project's goal is to simplify the development of big data applications providing a lightweight runtime environment that is easily configured and assembled via a simple DSL.Spring XD features include: - High throughput distr...
Concurrent Announces New Capabilities for its Application Development Framework for Data Applications on Hadoop
Thursday, April 24, 2014 by Richard Harris
Concurrent, an enterprise data application platform company, and Hortonworks, a provider of enterprise Apache Hadoop, have announced the Concurrent Cascading SDK will now be integrated and delivered with the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP). In addition, Hortonworks will certify, support and deliver the Cascading application development framework...
List of Completely Free Programming Books
Thursday, September 26, 2013 by Richard Harris
Developers and programmers alike need resources, and if you are looking for a free way to dive into programming, I've got the source for you. Head on over to stackoverflow and check out this growing list of books online or offline that you can use to either get started with or sharpen your app development mastery.
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