Tag: data lake
How Databricks Keeps Data Quality High with Delta
Data lakes have sprung up everywhere as organizations look for ways to store all their data. But the quality of data in those lakes has posed a major barrier to getting a return on data lake investments. Now Databricks i Read more…
Nvidia Sees Green in Data Science Workloads
We already knew that GPUs are useful for lots of things besides making Fortnite uncomfortably realistic. All the biggest supercomputers in the world use GPUs to accelerate math, and more recently they've been used to pow Read more…
Building a Successful Data Governance Strategy
One of the core elements of data analytics that organizations struggle with today is data governance. An organization could do everything right and still wonder why their analytics projects are failing if they haven't ta Read more…
Hitachi Ups Game for Managing Unstructured Data
Most enterprise data go unused, and according to some studies very little unstructured data in the form of text, audio and video makes its way into the hands of data analysts. Hence, data integrators see an opportunit Read more…
AWS To Build You a Data Lake in ‘A Few Clicks’
AWS yesterday announced Lake Formation, a new service that it says will let users build their own data lake on S3 -- complete with the requisite provisions for security, access control, data transformation, and catalogin Read more…
Is it Time to Drain the Data Lake?
The term “Big Data” has been a major point of enterprise technology conversation for decades, and with the rise of the data lake, it’s back in the spotlight. Early on, the idea of big data was how to store the m Read more…
ML Powers Discovery In GE’s 500 PB Lake
Like most Fortune 50 firms, General Electric relies on an abundance of computer systems to power its enterprise. And like most firms that size, synching up and aligning the data emitted by different systems is a major ch Read more…
Survey: Excel Remains Go-To Data Prep Tool
Skyrocketing data volumes and a complex mix of data types are bogging down data preparation and processing efforts, according to a recent overview of enterprise data quality. The snapshot released by data prep vendor Read more…
Tech’s Hottest New Trend: Data Governance
What's the hottest new trend in information technology? If you said "artificial intelligence," give yourself partial credit, because AI definitely is hot. But for technology decision-makers in the business world, there's Read more…
2018 Predictions: Opening the Big Data Floodgates
The pace of innovation in big data today is exceeded only by the actual volume of data generated. So how will the industry respond to the opportunities and challenges posed by huge pipes of data that will be opened up in Read more…
Attunity Relishes Role as Connective Tissue for Big Data
In the big data world, there are a few patterns that repeat themselves over and over again. One of those is the need to move data from one place to another. For data integration tool maker Attunity, that pattern has prov Read more…
This Data Lake Runs On Graph
When some people hear the words "data lake," they assume that it must run on Apache Hadoop or maybe Amazon S3. But the folks at Cambridge Semantics are finding traction in certain industries with a data lake solution tha Read more…
How to Build a Data-Driven Culture
What drives companies to have a successful data-driven culture? It’s important to understand that it’s not necessarily about the data itself. That’s secondary. The technology itself comes in third. Data-driven deci Read more…
Cloud In, Hadoop Out as Hot Repository for Big Data
If you're in charge of architecting a big data strategy for your organization, you have a lot of tough decisions to make. One of the easiest, however, may be to use cloud repositories to store and process the biggest set Read more…
How TD Bank Made Its Data Lake More Usable
One of the ways to make big data useful is to collect it all in a Hadoop-based repository and then give users self-service tools to access it. But there are a lot of details that must be hammered out before the Hadoop dr Read more…
Data Plane Offering Marks New Phase for Hortonworks
The new Data Plane Service (DPS) that Hortonworks unveiled today at the Strata Data Conference marks the start of a new phase for the publicly traded company, according to Arun Murthy, chief product officer and co-founde Read more…
GPU Acceleration Advancing the Evolution of Fast and Big Data
With enterprise data warehouses and Hadoop data lakes now well established in the enterprise, organizations are able to store the large amounts of data they are generating, sourcing and curating. Across retail, financial Read more…
Cataloging Alation’s Growth Potential
Super-fast processors and snappy visualizations may elicit "oohs" and "ahhs" from the big data masses. But here's the thing: the best analytics setup isn't worth a dime if you can't find the right data to analyze in the Read more…
MongoDB Pivots to Analytics
MongoDB wasn't originally designed to power advanced analytics. But the frustration that people have with Hadoop data lakes and the desire to get real-time answers from the database driving their applications is leading Read more…
Big Data Fabrics Emerge to Ease Hadoop Pain
If Hadoop is leaving your data lake project all wet, you may be a good candidate for an emerging architectural concept called the big data fabric. As industry experts explain, big data fabrics bring a certain level of co Read more…
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