Jack Vaughan
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MapR's future in jeopardy, layoffs loom
A cash crunch has put a leading Hadoop vendor on the ropes. MapR will find funding or close its doors, according to a filing with the state of California. The former high-flier has met trouble in an on-premises Hadoop market that shows signs of slowing. → Read More
Red Hat OpenShift Operators target AI, big data workloads
Containers now are a common part of machine learning. For open source software vendor Red Hat, which is set to merge with IBM, they are a central matter, in the form of OpenShift Operators. Red Hat's container skills could be important to future IBM-Red Hat AI undertakings. → Read More
Kafka at center of new event processing infrastructure
Event processing is now central to e-commerce applications that make data about users' intentions at least as important as the database transactions that finally 'book the deals.' All the elements relating to transactions are fodder, as presentations at the Confluent-hosted Kafka Summit showed. → Read More
Cloudera and Hortonworks combo to push CDP, machine learning
Cloudera and Hortonworks have consummated their deal to merge. The new Cloudera Data Platform will be the engine that will take the company to success in AI, Cloudera CEO Tom Reilly contends. → Read More
Cloudera-Hortonworks merger narrows Hadoop users' options
The Cloudera-Hortonworks merger shrinks the number of independent commercial Hadoop vendors to two, but analysts say the combined company has a better chance against bigger cloud rivals -- and that more consolidation in the big data platforms market isn't necessarily a bad thing for users. → Read More
Big data platform broadens place in analytics architecture
Structured data and streaming analytics are broadening the role of big data platform technologies if the 2018 Strata Data Conference in New York is any indication. This podcast sorts through the signs for users looking to add big data systems to their analytics architectures. → Read More
SQL Server 2019 preview brings Hadoop, Spark and AI into DBMS
A SQL Server 2019 preview supports Spark and HDFS. Unveiled at Microsoft Ignite 2018, it automates big data deployment. This, plus wider PolyBase support for varied data stores, could make Microsoft's relational database an all-purpose data portal. Azure Cosmos DB updates are also on tap. → Read More
Chief data officer skills tested by AI tech blitz
Chief data officer skills need some upgrading, as AI entices C-level execs. The CDO must keep the people side of data and the nature of the data foremost, as hyperbole piques business leaders' interest, according to MIT symposium participants. → Read More
Confluent Platform 5.0 aims to mainstream Kafka streaming
Confluent Platform 5.0 adds a GUI supporting KSQL operations, as well as user-defined functions. Forged by Kafka originators, the software looks to ease development and take Kafka data streaming to the mainstream. → Read More
Hadoop data governance services surface in wake of GDPR
The Talking Data podcast takes on Hadoop data governance services in an episode recorded at DataWorks Summit 2018 and featuring analyst Doug Henschen. With GDPR afoot, change is underway in data management. Big data, once handled haphazardly, is now being curated more carefully. → Read More
Teradata applies time series analytics tools to IoT data
Time has always been a part of the data warehousing equation. But time series analytics is becoming more prevalent, as enterprises enter the world of IoT data analysis. An update of Teradata's analytics platform looks to ride this wave. → Read More
GDPR requirements put focus on data ethics, governance
The General Data Protection Regulation might pit the European Union against Silicon Valley. No matter, GDPR requirements could advance the cause of data ethics and reinforce the importance of practicing good data governance. → Read More
Kubernetes container orchestration gets big data star turn
Kubernetes container orchestration is new in big data, as seen in infant efforts at the Strata Data Conference in San Jose, Calif. MapR and Data Artisans are among those looking to mix stateful streaming capabilities with stateless containers. → Read More
IT, others focus efforts as GDPR implementation date looms
GDPR implementation is a moving target across continents, as well as across departments in companies processing big data. → Read More
MongoDB 4.0 takes ACID transactions to multi-document level
A MongoDB 4.0 update brings ACID transactions -- ones with atomicity, consistency, isolation and durability -- across multiple documents in the NoSQL database. → Read More
Data catalog software takes open data initiative to the streets
Data catalog software played a key role in San Diego's open data initiative. It drove a new view for city planners, too. → Read More
Data managers should study up on GPU deep learning
Data managers looking toward AI will find GPU deep learning changes some basic approaches with data infrastructure. The move to the cloud is only one part of it. → Read More
Graph technology rivals take Amazon Neptune database in stride
Amazon's Neptune database enters an area of graph technology that includes startups, as well as players long on the trail of a relational data alternative. → Read More
Machine learning models require DevOps-style workflows
As machine learning models become the backbone of new applications, DevOps will come to the fore, according to Wikibon analyst James Kobielus. → Read More
AWS graph database Neptune sets sail at re:Invent 2017
An AWS graph database discussed at re:Invent 2017 takes its name from Neptune, god of the sea. It was part of a small data product tsunami. → Read More