Tag: mainframe
Cockroach Entices High-End Legacy Workloads with v23.2
The folks at Cockroach Labs have dedicated a decade of their lives to building a distributed relational database that can handle the global data storage and serving needs of the biggest companies in the world. While the Read more…
Precisely CEO Discusses the Rebrand from Syncsort
Syncsort last week changed its name to Precisely, a move that CEO Josh Rogers says was all about showcasing how the company has pivoted its strategy to an emerging category of tools centered on data integrity. “If y Read more…
Attunity Brings CDC to Google Cloud
Enterprises that are looking to push transactional data from on-premise systems into Google's cloud environment may want to check out the latest from Attunity, which today announced support for Google Cloud Platform with Read more…
Syncsort Tacks to Address 4 ‘Megatrends’
Syncsort's ship got bigger last year when it acquired Vision Solutions, a provider of data availability and security tools. Now the New York software company is bringing that cargo to bear for its next voyage: helping cu 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…
How Kafka Helped Rabobank Modernize Alerting System
Customers of Rabobank now receive alerts on bank account activity in a matter of seconds, as opposed to the hours it would take with its existing transactional platform, and it's all because of the speed and simplicity o Read more…
Inside IBM ML: Real-Time Analytics On the Mainframe
"Bring the compute to the data," is a common refrain you hear in the big data age. Now IBM is heading that advice with today's launch of IBM Machine Learning for z/OS, a new offering due this quarter that will bring Wats Read more…
Anaconda Gets Big Iron Support From IBM
IBM is expanding its embrace of big data analytics to include support on its open source mainframe for the Anaconda stack used by Python programmers. The company (NYSE: IBM) announced Thursday (Feb. 9) that it is collaborating with Anaconda developer Continuum Analytics and Rocket Software to host the open source analytics platform on IBM z/OS mainframes. Read more…
Big Iron Warms Up to Big Data
Despite predictions of its demise, the mainframe keeps ticking. And thanks to its longevity, customers are finding the need to integrate mainframes with big data systems is growing. Syncsort, which develops big data solu Read more…
See EBCDIC Run on Hadoop and Spark
Only 20,000 or so of the big beasts still exist in the wild. They're IBM mainframes, and despite the scorn of a legacy label, they continue to run critical processes companies simply don't trust to commodity Intel boxes. Read more…
Apache Spark Gets IBM Mainframe Connection
IBM's recent embrace of Apache Spark is beginning to generate dividends in the form of open source contributions for a mainframe big data link to Spark. Big data software vendor Syncsort, Woodcliff Lake, N.J., said Tu Read more…
Inside zDoop, a New Hadoop Distro for IBM’s Mainframe
IBM and its partner Veristorm are working to merge the worlds of big data and Big Iron with zDoop, a new offering unveiled last week that offers Apache Hadoop running in the mainframe's Linux environment. By gaining Big Blue's seal of approval, zDoop could change the big data landscape for organizations that rely on mainframes. Read more…
New IBM Mainframe Targets Massive Data
The word mainframe doesn’t appear in tech news as frequently as it used to, but when it does, you can almost bet that it’s Big Blue behind the message. This week the company rolled out the results of a reported $1 billion R&D investment with the new zEnterprise EC12... Read more…
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