Big Data Articles
Enabled by a partnership with Pentaho, a Hitachi Group Company, and integration with Pentaho's Big Data Integration and Analytics platform, Melissa Data's data quality tools and services can now be scaled across the Hadoop cluster to cleanse and verify data center records.
Posted April 27, 2016
Oracle provides informational resources, including educational events, webcasts, and white papers.
Posted April 27, 2016
IOUG offers webcasts on a range of topics including big data, security, cloud, and many more.
Posted April 27, 2016
Join IOUG's Exadata SIG on May 2 and 3 for the most comprehensive online Exadata event you can attend this year - and it's free!
Posted April 27, 2016
IOUG is pleased to announce the incoming members of the 2016-2017 IOUG Board of Directors. The slate of candidates was approved by the IOUG membership. Thank you for your support and participation!
Posted April 27, 2016
There is a large volume and wide diversity of data out there. But, do you know what else is vast? The skill set of a modern IT worker.
Posted April 27, 2016
Magnitude Software, a provider of Enterprise Information Management (EIM) software, unveiled a new a master data management offering designed to fuel business processes with accurate customer data for informed decision making.
Posted April 27, 2016
SAP and ISUG-TECH have teamed up and we're hitting the road this spring to meet you in person and share the latest innovations and insights on SAP ASE. We'll share how SAP ASE is meeting the transaction-processing demands for performance, reliability, and efficiency with its latest release. Connect, socialize and share ideas with your colleagues.
Posted April 27, 2016
BackOffice Associates, a provider of information governance and data modernization solutions, is acquiring CompriseIT, a U.K. consulting firm specializing in helping enterprises adopt SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (SAP S/4HANA). BackOffice Associates' acquisition of CompriseIT is the latest initiative in move to strengthen its expertise in helping customers as they embark on their journey to implement SAP S/4HANA.
Posted April 27, 2016
Cisco is launching an appliance that includes the MapR Converged Data Platform for SAP HANA, making it easier and faster for users to take advantage of big data. The UCS Integrated Infrastructure for SAP HANA is made easy to deploy, speeds time to market, and will reduce operational expenses along with providing users with the flexibility to choose a scale-up (on-premises) or scale-out (cloud) storage strategy.
Posted April 27, 2016
SAP SE is releasing an on-premise edition of SAP Preferred Care for SAP Enterprise Support, providing users who are transitioning to digital business models with the tools they need to get to the next level. The offering includes advanced service-level agreements, additional services, and a dedicated SAP contact person.
Posted April 27, 2016
IBM and SAP SE are partnering to accelerate plans across both companies to modernize clients' analytical systems and processes for big data. The companies plan to co-innovate solutions that increase customer value through cognitive extensions, all enabled with SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (SAP S/4HANA) software, available on-premise and in the cloud.
Posted April 27, 2016
OpenText, a provider of enterprise information management (EIM) solutions, is releasing an enhanced version of its namesake platform, addressing key areas of the user experience, machine-to-machine integration, automation, and more.
Posted April 27, 2016
Revelation Software recently hosted its user conference in Orlando, Florida, for an eager crowd of developers who wanted to learn more about all aspects of the company's technology, including the much-anticipated OpenInsight 10 release.
Posted April 27, 2016
Rocket Software is releasing D3 Linux, version 10.2.0, providing users with more flexibility.
Posted April 27, 2016
Entrinsik Inc., developer of information management software, is expanding its international presence with the opening of a European office, meeting a growing need for reporting and data analysis solutions. This global expansion will allow Entrinsik to better support its existing client base in Europe, while continuing to aggressively grow the business internationally.
Posted April 27, 2016
Analytics software firm FICO has introduced its Decision Management Suite 2.0, an expanded, cloud-based suite of analytic tools and applications for prescriptive analytics and decision management. The new release is an update to the suite which was first launched in 2013. The updated suite tackles problem the company says is common to many big data deployments - the gap between taking the vast amount of available data and translating it in to useful insights to support business decisions.
Posted April 27, 2016
Redis Labs, home of Redis, is releasing Redis on flash with standard x86 servers on the cloud along with partnering with Samsung to improve database performance. By running a combination of Redis on flash and DRAM, data center managers will benefit from leveraging the high throughput and low latency characteristics of Redis while achieving substantial cost savings, according to the company.
Posted April 27, 2016
Cloudera, provider of a data management and analytics platform built on Apache Hadoop and open source technologies, has announced the general availability of Cloudera Enterprise 5.7. According to the vendor, the new release offers an average 3x improvement for data processing with added support of Hive-on-Spark, and an average 2x improvement for business intelligence analytics with updates to Apache Impala (incubating).
Posted April 26, 2016
Neo Technology, creator of Neo4j, is releasing an improved version of its signature platform, enhancing its scalability, introducing new language drivers and a host of other developer friendly features.
Posted April 26, 2016
The COLLABORATE 16 conference for Oracle users kicked off with a presentation by Unisphere Research analyst Joe McKendrick who shared insights from a ground-breaking study that examined future trends and technology among 690 members of three major Oracle users groups.
Posted April 25, 2016
The greatest power in using IoT-derived insights is the ability respond to opportunities or threats immediately. However, enterprises largely have focused on historical reporting and will need to significantly modernize their analytics capabilities—both in understanding current events and predicting future outcomes—to take advantage of the new insights that IoT data can bring.
Posted April 25, 2016
The need for data integration has never been more intense than it has been recently. The Internet of Things and its muscular sibling, the Industrial Internet of Things, are now being embraced as a way to better understand the status and working order of products, services, partners, and customers. Mobile technology is ubiquitous, pouring in a treasure trove of geolocation and usage data. Analytics has become the only way to compete, and with it comes a need for terabytes—and gigabytes—worth of data. The organization of 2016, in essence, has become a data machine, with an insatiable appetite for all the data that can be ingested.
Posted April 25, 2016
The core reason for implementing in-memory technology is to improve performance. To help accelerate adoption of in-memory technologies and provide a universal standard for columnar in-memory processing and interchange, the lead developers of 13 major open source big data projects have joined forces to create Apache Arrow, a new top level project within the Apache Software Foundation (ASF).
Posted April 24, 2016
SAS has launched Viya,, a new analytics and visualization architecture designed to help make analytics accessible to a greater swath of users. According to the vendor, Viya, represents the foundation for a suite of offerings including machine learning, and will help speed the time between early-stage analytical exploration and resulting business value for users of all skill levels.
Posted April 22, 2016
MemSQL, provider of a distributed in-memory database that enables processing of transactions and running of analytics in real time, has closed its series C financing, raising $36 million. This latest MemSQL funding round brings the total amount raised to $85 million.
Posted April 21, 2016
Percona, a provider of MySQL and MongoDB solutions and services, is releasing an updated version of Percona Server for MongoDB .
Posted April 21, 2016
GridGain Systems, provider of enterprise-grade in-memory data fabric solutions based on Apache Ignite, is releasing a new version of its platform. GridGain Professional Edition includes the latest version of Apache Ignite plus LGPL libraries, along with a subscription that includes monthly maintenance releases with bug fixes that have been contributed to the Apache Ignite project but will be included only with the next quarterly Ignite release.
Posted April 20, 2016
Oracle provides informational resources, including educational events, webcasts, and white papers.
Posted April 20, 2016
IOUG offers webcasts on a range of topics including big data, security, cloud, and many more.
Posted April 20, 2016
The Call for Papers for DOAG 2016 Conference and Exhibition is open. Now it is time to submit your abstracts, anyone can become a speaker. For the first time, even candidates without prior lecturing experience can apply.
Posted April 20, 2016
Every month IOUG shines the spotlight on one of our members! This month we are featuring Kimberly Floss, Director of Global Database Services, PepsiCo.
Posted April 20, 2016
Thanks so much to everyone who joined us last week in Las Vegas for COLLABORATE 16 - IOUG Forum. It was a great week filled with education, networking and lots of knowledge being shared between Oracle experts.
Posted April 20, 2016
To help organizations that are being held back from moving enterprise workloads to a public cloud because of business, legislative, or regulatory requirements that restrict where and how they handle data, Oracle has launched a new set of offerings. Introduced at Oracle CloudWorld in Washington, DC, by Thomas Kurian, president, Oracle, "Oracle Cloud at Customer" enables organizations to get the benefits of Oracle's cloud services but in their own data center.
Posted April 20, 2016
Dataguise, a provider of data security solutions, is making DgSecure available for the detection, monitoring, and protection of sensitive data across Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3) and all Elastic MapReduce (EMR) platforms that use AWS S3.
Posted April 19, 2016
Imagine trying to fill a prescription at the pharmacy only to discover that, due to some unknown error in some faraway IT system, your health insurance coverage isn't available. At best, this could be a minor frustration, but at worst it creates a serious medical hardship that puts policyholders at risk.
Posted April 18, 2016
Sumo Logic, a provider of cloud-native, machine data analytics services, is unveiling a new platform that natively ingests, indexes, and analyzes structured metrics data, and unstructured log data together in real-time.
Posted April 18, 2016
Teradata, the big data analytics and marketing applications company, is making key investments in the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Analytics of Things (AoT), along with updating its signature platforms.
Posted April 18, 2016
Hortonworks is making several key updates to its platform along with furthering its mission as being a leading innovator of open and connected data solutions by enhancing partnerships with Pivotal and expanding upon established integrations with Syncsort.
Posted April 15, 2016
First created as part of a research project at UC Berkeley AMPLab, Spark is an open source project in the big data space, built for sophisticated analytics, speed, and ease of use. It unifies critical data analytics capabilities such as SQL, advanced analytics, and streaming in a single framework. Databricks is a company that was founded by the team that created and continues to lead both the development and training around Apache Spark.
Posted April 14, 2016
Lavastorm is releasing its Accelerators Library solution at no cost to users, offering an array of preconfigured components that make it easier and faster for all Lavastorm users to build analytic applications regardless of technical acumen.
Posted April 14, 2016
Dell is releasing an upgraded version of its Statistica advanced analytics platform, providing tools to address Internet of Things (IoT) analytics requirements and leverage heterogeneous data environments.
Posted April 14, 2016
IDERA is releasing its SQL Inventory Check platform for free to allow database administrators (DBAs) to easily discover servers on the network and verify versions to keep them properly maintained or to prepare for migrations.
Posted April 13, 2016
DataStax, provider of database software for cloud applications, is releasing a scale-out graph database solution built for cloud applications, providing users with a new tool for maintaining their highly connected data.
Posted April 12, 2016
Thanks to the digital business transformation, the world around us is changing—and quickly—to a very consumer- and data-centric economy, where companies must transform to remain competitive and survive. The upshot is that for many companies today, it is a full-on Darwinian experience of survival of the fittest.
Posted April 08, 2016