BIG DATA TECHNOLOGY
Big Data On Small Budgets
Don’t let perceived big data investment costs and skills requirements prevent you from optimizing your management toolkit. Have you ever wondered why you can’t get several years of historical data instead of a paltry few months’ worth? Better data builds more solid...
Analytics For The ‘MAaaSes’: Solutions For A Competitive Edge
Managed Analytics as a Service (MAaaS) gives you valuable insights fast at a predictable price. In the era of 'Big Data', companies are eager to use data analysis technologies and procedures to gain valuable business insights from their data. However, the truth is...
Scientists Look to the Skies, Oceans and Big Data
A few posts ago, we reviewed how big data analytics accelerate and can expand the range of visualizations used in academe and the wider world. Data scientists are working with meteorologists, oceanographers, astronomers and software designers to use new visual...
Let’s Explore Big Data with Lawyers: Evidence Search Methods 101
The smoking gun. The needle in a haystack. Today’s tech-savvy attorneys need quick and efficient search methods to find key evidence in mountains of unstructured data. Otherwise known as Big Data, legal professionals may need a big data platform to find evidence at...
How to Prepare a Virtual Private Cloud for Instance and Cluster
Happy Tuesday! Today, we're kicking off the first of our new series about how to manage your Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP). Our analytics whiz, Vishwas Subramanian, helps you prepare your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) for instance and cluster. Let's get...
What You Need to Know About Big Data Analytics Costs
What You Need to Know About Big Data Analytics Costs BDA isn’t new anymore. It has a track record, a performance history that we can refer to. By now, we all know the benefits of BDA. But whether you are in various stages of BDA implementation or still on the...
8 Ways that Data Analytics Modernizes Healthcare
Big data and fast data analytics have already proved their value to healthcare providers and patients. The early benefits included improving hospital profits and cutting down on wasted overhead. Now, advanced analytics help providers predict disease and epidemics,...
4 Powerful Ways Analytics Brings Efficiency to Oil & Gas
Bad news: In 2011, West Texas Intermediate Crude (WTI) was trading at $90 a barrel. Today, it’s hovering around $40. That price volatility is a long-term signature of the petroleum industry. Very good news: data analytics and reporting can reduce these economic risks...
How To Ingest Data Using Hortonworks Hadoop With Sqoop and Flume – Tutorial
In this tutorial, you will learn the basics of data ingestion using Hortonworks Hadoop with Sqoop and Flume. Apache Sqoop was designed to transfer data between Hadoop and relational database servers, such as MySQL, and Oracle to Hadoop HDFS. Apache Flume is a...
Waiting to Join the Mainstream: Apache Spark Use Cases
Until now, you had to be a really big company such as Amazon to have the skills and resources to plow through Big Data and get fast results. Apache Spark™ combines performance and sophistication that usually comes from expensive systems and delivers it to commodity...
4 Ways Apache Spark Contributes to Big Data Analytics
Apache Spark is a data processing engine that runs super-fast through huge volumes of diverse data. It was a breakout success in 2015 and is likely to continue its popularity this year. To explain what the fuss is all about we delve into the trends and 4 ways Apache...
Our First Look At Spotfire 7.5
TIBCO recently released the latest version of its business intelligence software – Spotfire 7.5 . With it, come important updates that bring us Data Source Connectors and updates to TIBCO Spotfire Server. Below we take a first look at what's new in Spotfire 7.5. To...
Tales from the Hortonworks Roadshow
Big data has been around for several years now. If you want to escape the big data drumbeat, we understand. But Hortonworks hosted a series of 18 engaging and informative open house events designed to spice up the data message. On February 4th the final event landed...
MapR Announces Free Test Drives on Amazon Web Services
In a recent press release, MapR announced that several of its partners, including Syntelli Solutions, have integrated big data technologies with the MapR platform and provided free Test Drives for individuals to explore and learn about these technologies in action via...
Trends: Data Analytics Tools and Tech in 2016
If you liked 2015 with its many changes in machine data analytics, you’ll love 2016. Many of the trends we follow can be tallied on the business side of data analytics. But this time, we cast our gaze at technical changes, especially event processing, data and...
MapR Streams – Next Step in Enterprise Big Data
In a press release on Tuesday, MapR Technologies Inc announced the introduction of MapR Streams – the first and only converged data platform in the industry. This global event streaming system is reliable and has the ability to connect data consumers to data producers...
Apache Spark: An All-in-One Tool for the Data-Driven Enterprise
Recent developments in Big Data analytics frameworks have been exciting, and Apache Spark™ has contributed to this excitement. But is the buzz Spark generates just white noise, or does it solve important business and technical problems? In short, does it deserve a...
9 Recent Data Analytics Trends
Business intelligence continues to evolve as developers unravel the mysteries of big data analytics. A good way to track that evolution is to monitor recent BI and data analytics trends. What’s Going On in the Big Data Analytics Space? A lot. Some topics are...
A Retail Company Benefits from Customer Analytics – Use Case
If you want a more efficient, cost-effective way to know your customers, it’s hard to beat big data analytics. If you want proof that it really creates value in real companies, you don’t have far to look. We’re sharing customer analytics success stories to show that...
Discover the Benefits of Cloud-Based Data Analytics Services
For the last several years, it’s been almost impossible to avoid mention of big data or cloud-based services. But sometimes, there’s a good reason for the buzz: in science and business there’s a whole lot of innovation going on. Where’s the story, you ask? It’s good...
