EMC Federation’s Business Data Lake combines VMWare and Pivotal big data tech

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by admin - April 1, 2015April 1, 2015

FIRST WE HAD the Wine Lake. Then there was the Butter Mountain. Now, thanks to the EMC Federation, we have the Business Data Lake. Combining storage and big data technologies from EMC, Pivotal and VMWare, the Federation Business Data Lake (FBDL)... More>>

Data Lakes and Network Optimization: What’s Next for Telecommunications and Big Data

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by admin - April 1, 2015

Relational data warehouses served communications service providers well in the past, but it’s time to start thinking beyond columns and rows. Unstructured data will be the fuel that powers risk management and decision-making in the near future. More>>

How a data lake facilitates analysis

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by admin - April 1, 2015

Examining your cyber data from a data-centric approach provides your analysts with the insight needed to better understand how and where adversaries are attacking your enterprise. More>>

EMC launches integrated data lake stack

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by admin - April 1, 2015

This data lake stack includes VMware, Pivotal, EMC and third party Hadoop vendors such as Cloudera and Hortonworks as well as analytics platforms including SAS and Tableau. EMC and its federated companies---Pivotal and VMware---have integrated a few third party vendors in what it bills a preintegrated data lake for big

EMC launches “data lake” appliance

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by admin - April 1, 2015

EMC has launched an appliance to help its customers build “data lakes”, melding, it says, technology from EMC Information Infrastructure, Pivotal and VMware. More>>

MongoDB Counters Couchbase Performance Claims

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by admin - April 1, 2015

MongoDB test reports superior durability and throughput compared to Cassandra and Couchbase, but is it another case of biased, vendor-sponsored research? More>>

Corporate Hadoop Adoption Is Growing, Barclays Report Says

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by admin - April 1, 2015

Barclays analyst Raimo Lenschow says that barriers to Hadoop adoption will fall as more businesses use software called Hive. More>>

Hadoop powers big data digital marketing platform

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by admin - April 1, 2015

'Data-driven transformation' is a hot topic these days, particularly in marketing, which in most organizations is keenly feeling the pressure of data overload. "The reason the emphasis now is on data-driven is because organizations are struggling with absolutely being overwhelmed by data," says Dale Renner, CEO and founder of data

Big data analytics can prevent health care fraud. Here’s how

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by admin - April 1, 2015

Catching and preventing health care fraud is more important than ever. The industry has undergone massive transformations with breakthroughs like the adoption of online health records, remote patient care and data-driven care. More>>

Things You Might Not Know About Big Data [INFOGRAPHIC]

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by admin - March 17, 2015

We live in a data-centric world, and we speak casually about bytes, megabytes, and gigabytes. But now, the amount of data that’s out there has surpassed the terms we’ve previously used to describe it. Instead, Big Data is now the reality.... More>>