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How Apache Kafka is greasing the wheels for big data

Analytics is often described as one of the biggest challenges associated with big data, but even before that step can happen, data has to be ingested and made available to enterprise users. That's where Apache Kafka comes in. Originally developed at LinkedIn, Kafka is an open-source system for managing real-time

The Future of Big Data and Retail with Case Studies

This article is the sixth and final in an editorial series with a goal of directing line of business leaders in conjunction with enterprise technologists with a focus on opportunities for retailers and how Dell can help them get started. The guide also will serve as a resource for retailers

The machines are eating your BI, says DataStax CEO

NoSQL has been a "complete game changer," according to database guru Michael Franklin. And yet, it has hardly touched the traditional Business Intelligence (BI) industry. Oh, sure, you can get an ODBC driver to connect Tableau to Cassandra or a similar connection between MongoDB and Informatica, but these are low-fidelity

The Forrester Wave: Big Data Predictive Analytics Solutions, Q2 2015

In its evaluation, Forrester Research said, "IBM assembles an impressive set of capabilities, putting predictive at the center. No matter how an organization wants to get started with predictive analytics, IBM has an option for them. The solution offers one of the most comprehensive set of capabilities to build models,

Inspiring New Approaches To Customer Satisfaction With A Data Lake

EMC didn’t grow to be a $25 billion global technology leader without a keen focus on customer satisfaction. In fact, EMC has a dedicated program called Total Customer Experience (TCE) to drive continuous innovation in enhancing customer experience. For example, one strategy has been for our customer service organization to

Analyze Data with Presto and Airpal on Amazon EMR

You can now launch Presto version 0.119 on Amazon EMR, allowing you to easily spin up a managed EMR cluster with the Presto query engine and run interactive analysis on data stored in Amazon S3. You can integrate with Spot instances, publish logs to an S3 bucket, and use EMR’s

Forrester Big Data Vendor Overview Newsletter

The landscape of Enterprise data is changing with the adven of Enterprise Social Data, IoT, logs, click-streams. The data is too big, moves too fast, or doesn't fit the strictures of current database architechtures. As Forrester points out, "with growing data volume, increasing compliance pressure, and the revolution of Big

Big Data Analytics and its Importance

When we talk about Big Data, we find some people saying that it’s just and no action while at the other side of the shore we find another set of people who claim that Big data delivers usable insights. My point is what exactly the arena is about.I would call

Cloudera unveils in-memory store, security layer for Hadoop

Just ahead of the opening of Strata + Hadoop World in New York City tomorrow, Cloudera today unveiled a new open source project to enable real-time analytic applications in Hadoop and an open source security layer for unified access control enforcement in Hadoop.The first project, Kudu, is an in-memory store

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