Tag: unstructured data
Unstructured Data Growth Wearing Holes in IT Budgets
As companies store more unstructured data, companies find that it’s taking an ever-bigger cut of the IT budget. That is forcing some firms widen the search for solutions that can help them better manage it, according t Read more…
Rubrik Eyes Unstructured Data with Igneous Deal
Rubrik, the multi-cloud data manager, moved to bolster its unstructured data management capabilities with the acquisition of Igneous, whose platform provides monitoring and storage for dispersed data. Rubrik, Palo Alt Read more…
Is DMaaS the Answer to Your Data Problems?
Data management as a service (DMaaS) is an emerging practice whereby a range of data-based services--including file and object serving, governance, security, backup/recovery, archiving, and dev/test provisioning--are del Read more…
The Object (Store) of Your Desire
As the data explosion continues to reverberate across the land, organizations are turning to object storage systems to keep it tidy and organized. Public clouds run the biggest and most popular object stores, but there a Read more…
Cloudian, Splunk Unchain Compute, Storage
Splunk has decoupled the computing and storage layers of its architecture, providing a way for customers to scale storage independent from computing. The machine data analytics specialist working with storage partner Read more…
Corporate Culture Continues to Stymie Data Insights
Reports of the death of spreadsheets have been greatly exaggerated. That reality is among the findings of a recent survey on the state of business analytics released by the consulting firm Deloitte. Even as enterprise Read more…
In 2019, Disorderly Is the New Orderly
With spring right around the corner, what is more satisfying than a good ‘spring cleaning’? The launch of Marie Kondo’s series, Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, on Netflix this past January has fueled a mass-movem Read more…
Machine Learning Tool Creates a Paper Trail
The application of AI tools to the shuffling of paperwork—tedious, yet essential—is getting another upgrade with the release of a framework designed to sift through, analyze and organize digital documents and contrac Read more…
Okera Bolsters Access Control for Unstructured Data
Some of the most interesting data that's analyzed by organizations is unstructured data, including images, videos, and text files. But the lack of structure of that data poses regulatory challenges to organizations, whic 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…
5 Critical Steps for Identifying the Value in Your Unstructured Information
I have spent many years helping organizations gain control and management over their unstructured data or information. The days where we looked for one content management solution to capture and manage our valued unstruc Read more…
Tamr Preps for Growth with $18M Round
Tamr today announced that it has raised $18 million in venture capital to help it grow its business, which is focused taking a "machine-driven, human-guided" approach to taming messy data. The funding round, which was Read more…
Big Bank Data Pegged at $9 Billion
The phrase “big data” has come to mean different things to different people, morphing from the huge data volumes too big for traditional databases to handle to the infrastructure required to ingest, store and analyze Read more…
SQL Database Adds GDPR Compliance Tools
The big data startup Cockroach Labs is itself targeting startups and multinational companies hustling to comply with pending European data governance rules with a new version of its open-source SQL database. The 2.0 v 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…
Esri Adds an Unstructured Location Data Capability
Spatial analytics specialist Esri continues to expand its mapping platform with the acquisition of ClearTerra, a developer of geospatial and other intelligence tools focused on unstructured data. Esri, Redlands, Calif Read more…
Gartner: Top Storage Vendors Taming Unstructured Data
Object storage and distributed file systems are being enlisted to handle the growing volumes of unstructured data in enterprise datacenters, market analyst Gartner Inc. notes in an annual survey of the evolving storage m Read more…
IBM Object Storage Targets Compliance Data
IBM rolled out on-premises storage options this week targeting the management of regulatory data along with an object storage scaling capability billed as reducing hardware requirements. The company said the object st Read more…
Guiding Unstructured Data Analytic Journeys
Unstructured data poses one of the biggest challenges in the analytics world, and one of the biggest benefits to understanding human behavior, too. It also presents a golden opportunity for Voyager Labs, which has receiv Read more…
Accenture Continues Cloud Push With Search Deal
Professional services and technical consulting outfits continue to snap up up-and-coming big data startups with specific capabilities such as search analytics that combine transaction with other data. Continuing the t Read more…