In a database market that uses terms like “time to insight,” it’s clear that buyers and vendors are keen on eliminating data-analysis delays. Reducing the time between data being captured in… Read more »
Plummeting RAM prices and the massive throughput requirements of big data make in-memory databases incredibly attractive. Processing enormous data sets in a fraction of the time it normally takes sounds like… Read more »
Data-driven decision-making is a popular and worthwhile goal, but few infrastructures are truly up to the task of supporting real-time data. The business needs driving analytics are evolving quickly, and even… Read more »
Refining raw data into something cleaner, and ready for rigorous analysis, is arguably more important in the big data world than it has been since the dawn of the data warehouse… Read more »
Technology lays the groundwork for change, but making that technology approachable creates a revolution. The GUI – not the PC – brought computing to the masses, and the browser – not… Read more »
With Hortonworks’ acquisition of XA Secure, Hadoop gets some enterprise-level security. It’s a big step, but open-source Hadoop has further to go in its quest for robust, fine-grained access control. Read more »
Understanding customer behavior is critical, but predicting future behavior is a goldmine. Knowing when customers are ready to buy or cancel or identifying risk before an incident occurs could mean the… Read more »