Understanding cloudnative
Tuesday, October 15, 2019 by Richard Harris
IT has changed dramatically and the server administrator that used to stage, monitor, support, and maintain physical servers has changed too. It's a different day for software, and cloud-native adoption is growing at a fast pace. We recently caught up with Mark Palmer, senior vice president, and general manager, data and analytics for TIBCO, about their analytics so...
Node.js developer survey reveals unique environment insights
Tuesday, June 5, 2018 by Richard Harris
The Node.js Foundation announced the availability of its Node.js User Survey Report. Key findings of the survey reveal the benefits of Node.js expand over time, resulting most often in improved developer productivity and satisfaction and reduced development costs. Containers and cloud-native computing are on the rise with 58% of overall users noting they using Kubernete...
IBM has a new Blockchain platform
Wednesday, March 28, 2018 by Austin Harris
Interest in blockchain has never been greater, driving more focus on how it can be used in the enterprise. In fact, more than half of the world's big corporations are either actively considering, or are in the process of, deploying blockchain technology. And two thirds of firms state they expect the technology to be integrated into their systems by the end of 2018, acco...
Actian says to be outperforming Amazon Redshift
Monday, March 12, 2018 by Richard Harris
Actian has announced that Actian Vector analytics database running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) outperforms Amazon Redshift "by as much as 12x" in an industry benchmark conducted by McKnight Consulting Group (MCG) Global Services. In a separate MCG benchmark report, Actian Vector performs "up to nearly 10x faster" than Microsoft SQL Server.In February 2018, MCG conducte...
Alooma service launches to secure pipelines that stream data in realtime
Friday, January 27, 2017 by Austin Harris
Alooma, a data pipeline company, has announced the general availability of their newest service which creates secure pipelines that stream data in real-time from any source including databases, applications, APIs, etc. to cloud data warehouse platforms for faster business decision-making. Their solution replaces the decades-old batch uploading approach to data integrati...
Usermind is expanding its platform to orchestrate partner journeys
Thursday, December 8, 2016 by Richard Harris
Seattle-based Usermind, a new enterprise software company that integrates apps and data systems to orchestrate customer journeys, has expanded its flagship product to encompass partner journey orchestration capabilities. Many companies sell their products and services through third-parties and now, and systems critical to the partner experience - such as partner portals...
Panoply.io partners with ironSource for better data integration and management
Tuesday, October 25, 2016 by Richard Harris
Panoply.io has announced a partnership with global technology powerhouse ironSource. The partnership will allow customers using ironSource’s data infrastructure solution - Atom Data Flow Management, to connect their data integrations to a self-optimizing, AWS Redshift-based data warehouse, all with the click of one button from within their ironSource implementation. iro...
Talend Integration Cloud Integrates Workloads in AWS Environments
Tuesday, March 22, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Talend has released the latest version of its Talend Integration Cloud, an Integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) solution designed to help companies manage on-premises, cloud and hybrid integration workloads in AWS environments. The new release allows companies to execute big data and data integration projects running on AWS Redshift or AWS Elastic Map Reduce (...
Looker Expands Supported Data Warehouses to Now Include Presto and Spark SQL
Thursday, February 11, 2016 by Richard Harris
Looker has expanded its list of supported data warehouses to now include Presto and Spark SQL, as well as making updates to its support for Impala and Hive. Looker allows enterprises to describe, define and analyze the data where it lives, significantly eliminating the time, expertise, and the cost burdens of moving the data. The Looker platform speeds up data anal...
Transfer Data Fast with the New AWS Snowball and Kinesis Firehose
Sunday, October 11, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Amazon Web Services has released AWS Snowball and Amazon Kinesis Firehose both of which offer two new capabilities to help AWS users more quickly and cost-effectively transfer data of all types and sizes to the AWS Cloud. AWS Snowball is a petabyte-scale data transport appliance that can securely transfer 50 TB per appliance of data into and out of AWS. Amazon Kine...
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...
New AWS Amazon Machine Learning Platform Takes on IBM’s Watson
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 by Richard Harris
AWS has introduced Amazon Machine Learning, a new service that helps developers to embed machine learning intelligence into their apps. Developers can build and fine-tune predictive models using large amounts of data, and then use Amazon Machine Learning to make predictions - in batch mode or in real-time - at scale. Amazon Machine Learning provides visualization t...
How to Escape the MPP Database Schema Management Hell
Tuesday, March 10, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Today’s massively parallel processing (MPP) databases’ ability to run large-scale analytic queries very quickly make them great tools for iterative data exploration. And Cloud offerings like Redshift are causing MPP databases to enjoy increasing adoption outside of enterprise IT.However, schema management and data loading are two areas where MPP databases require an eno...
