Big Data Articles
Rocana has unveiled the latest version of its solution for managing and analyzing event-oriented machine data that introduces new advanced analytics and anomaly detection abilities. In addition to the new features, the platform update also introduces support for Hortonworks along with Cloudera, further deepening the platform's reach.
Posted January 12, 2016
The world of cyber security has shifted as hackers have turned in to organized crime groups and cyber criminals continue to become more sophisticated. Join SHARE in San Antonio keynote speaker, Patrick Gray, IT Security Consultant and a 20-year veteran of the FBI, as he explores the current threat landscape and how it is rapidly changing.
Posted January 11, 2016
Looking to dive in to IBM's Information Management Systems? Want an Assembler crash course? Join expert instructors for SHARE Academy, February 28, 2016 before the full week of SHARE in San Antonio kicks off.
Posted January 11, 2016
Sisense is receiving a substantial amount of Series D funding which will be used to invest in innovation and allow the company to focus on simplifying analytics for large, multi-source datasets, while rapidly expanding business operations in support of Sisense's global growth.
Posted January 07, 2016
MicroStrategy is releasing an updated version of its analytics platform that will make it easier than ever to build apps and dashboards, offer speedy deployment, and improve governance.
Posted January 07, 2016
If you're into data and databases and you have not heard the term "machine learning," may I suggest that you're not reading enough? This technology is hot and hyped, largely because it is the secret ingredient in many successful Big Data projects.
Posted January 07, 2016
Exponential data growth is hitting organizations of all sizes hard. It's not enough to merely add more capacity; recovery point objectives must be met, and time is money when it comes to data recovery. The simple truth is that to be effectively managed, adequately protected and completely recovered, your data size must be shrunk.
Posted January 07, 2016
Today, the success of many startups hinges upon the ability to gain insights from rapidly growing data. Yet startups and smaller businesses often don't have the resources to hire a full-scale data science team, especially considering the painful data scientist shortage that's making it difficult for even large enterprises to find qualified candidates. Here are three approaches companies can adopt to deal with their big and complex data analytics challenges in 2016.
Posted January 07, 2016
Oracle has signed an agreement to acquire AddThis, a provider of publisher personalization, audience insight and activation tools that enables audience segment quality, scale and insight.
Posted January 06, 2016
IOUG offers webcasts on a range of topics including big data, security, cloud, and many more.
Posted January 06, 2016
BIWA SUMMIT 2016The Oracle Big Data + Analytics User ConferenceOracle Spatial Summit + YesSQL Summit
Posted January 06, 2016
Every month IOUG shines the spotlight on one of our members! This month we are spotlighting Warren Capps, President of Illuminations, Inc.
Posted January 06, 2016
Renewal means something different for everyone. And what better time to contemplate this idea than the end of the year? Whether you're renewing your passion for your current role, considering a revitalizing career move or simply thinking about the technological changes in the industry, the Q4 issue of SELECT Journal has you covered.
Posted January 06, 2016
Make your plans to join IOUG in the new year as we launch two new webinar series to help you continue to grow your knowledge and get the top notch education you have come to expect from IOUG.
Posted January 06, 2016
Plan your days at COLLABORATE 16 by previewing the educational sessions that cover themes and product lines that matter most to you with the newly-launched COLLABORATE 16 Session Scheduler. Or follow one of four daily dedicated customer journeys: Big Data, Cloud, Mobility and Security.
Posted January 06, 2016
Though MySQL has evolved into a robust database engine that now handles large-scale operations for mission-critical workloads, the complexity of performance tuning can still prove challenging for DBAs who are increasingly being tasked with managing multiple database platforms in production for larger and complex workloads.
Posted January 06, 2016
Greenwave Systems, an Internet of Things (IoT) software and managed services leader, has raised $45 million in its Series C financing round in two phases. The company's stated mission is to drive mass adoption of IoT by enabling leading brands to use technology in ways that foster deeper customer relationships.
Posted January 05, 2016
The availability of Apache Spark 1.6 was announced today. The Spark 1.6 release continues the major theme of making Spark easier to use for data applications, said Reynold Xin, co-founder at Databricks, the company behind Spark. "There are lots of improvements and new features - in fact over 1,000 - in this Spark release," said Xin.
Posted January 04, 2016
We can expect to see every year within the next 5 years be "The Year of IoT." IoT promises to unlock value and rapidly transform how organizations manage, operationalize, and monetize their assets. With IoT, physical assets become liquid, easily indexed and tracked, enabling identification of idle capacity or over utilization.
Posted December 22, 2015
Today's organizations don't need to be hesitant or "scared" of unstructured data. In actuality, the real fear should be about missing the opportunity to tap these resources. The magic really starts to happen when all datasets - structured and unstructured, inside and outside the enterprise - are analyzed in parallel.
Posted December 22, 2015
Servers.com, provider of cloud servers and cloud storage, is collaborating with Percona to deliver automated deployment of the Percona Server for MySQL database.
Posted December 22, 2015
FairCom, provider of "multimodel No+SQL" integrated database management tools, has updated its c-treeACE platform, offering up to 300% higher throughput, while keeping data consistent and durable. Version 11 of c-treeACE will provide developers with new configurations that will allow them to use flexible schemas to customize unique ways of storing and retrieving data.
Posted December 21, 2015
The 12th annual Red Hat Summit will take place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from June 28 - July 1, 2016. Red Hat Summit is a premier open source technology event, bringing together thousands of customers, partners, and open source industry leaders from around the world for a high-energy week of innovation, education, and collaboration.
Posted December 16, 2015
The OpenPOWER Foundation, an open development community dedicated to accelerating data center innovation by taking advantage of open interfaces, reference designs, and collaboration opportunities on the POWER processor architecture, has announced its 2016 OpenPOWER Summit: Revolutionizing the Datacenter.
Posted December 16, 2015
Clients tell how they simplify, innovate and compete with the enterprise-grade platform for Linux.
Posted December 16, 2015
A major utility organization needed to expand its services to new regions in its domestic market while enhancing customer services. To achieve these goals, the company wanted to ensure that it could onboard and manage new suppliers and customers without impacting service quality.
Posted December 16, 2015
Sparda-Datenverarbeitung eG (SDV), the IT service provider for the Sparda-Bank Group in Germany, develops secure and innovative IT solutions for retail banking, payment, distribution and financing to improve the products and services of Sparda-Bank Group.
Posted December 16, 2015
A new video demonstrates how the combined power of Linux, IBM z Systems, the hybrid cloud, and IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack enhance the benefits of each part to provide the most powerful and reliable enterprise solution.
Posted December 16, 2015
Juju certainly isn't the world's best kept secret on quickly-and-easily modeling and bringing services to the Cloud, but what may be a more closely kept secret is that because IBM POWER8 supports Ubuntu, the power of POWER, coupled with the magic of Charms, brings open source cloud services modeling and orchestration to the world's premier open server platform!
Posted December 16, 2015
This blog provides a terrific developer resource focused on topics on container technology and its use in Linux on the mainframe. Go here.
Posted December 16, 2015
Three months ago, IBM announced a major investment in Apache Spark, committing thousands of researchers to the future development of what has been called the most important open source project in a decade being defined by data.
Posted December 16, 2015
In a world awash in data, the way that companies engage with their customers has forever changed. Where companies used to rely on telephone customer service centers and antique suggestion boxes, they are now inundated with data of all kinds, from multiple sources and devices, requiring different responses.
Posted December 16, 2015
Earlier this year, SAP and IBM announced that SAP Business Warehouse deployments on SAP HANA could be integrated with IBM Power Systems, achieving a level of flexibility, resiliency and performance that customers tell us is unique in the industry.
Posted December 16, 2015
IBM now has three strategic virtualization platforms: IBM z/VM, IBM PR/SM, and KVM for IBM z Systems. KVM for IBM z delivers server virtualization based on open source KVM Linux technology. KVM for IBM z virtualization technology enables you to share real compute, memory, and I/O resources through server virtualization.
Posted December 16, 2015
In today's hyper-connected world, it is no longer enough to have a digital presence like a mobile channel or e-commerce site. The extra mile to strive for is interactive engagement at a cognitive level through bi-directional communication and always-on-services.
Posted December 16, 2015