AtScale Brings its Universal Semantic Layer to the AWS Cloud

AtScale announced the preview availability of its universal semantic platform for business intelligence (BI) on Amazon Redshift. With this offer, enterprises will gain faster time to insight by deploying Big Data Analytics on the Amazon Cloud and benefit from an enhanced ROI by running production-ready workloads on the cost-effective Amazon cloud platform.

MapR Launches Managed Services for Improved DataOps

MapR Technologies, Inc., a pioneer in delivering one platform for all data, across every cloud, announced new Managed Services for the MapR Converged Data Platform. Available immediately, customers can focus on building a wide range of applications from analytics to machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), while MapR manages the daily operations of the customer’s big data infrastructure from on-premises, across clouds and to the edge.

ESG Labs Confirms MapR Outperforms Cassandra and HBase by 10x in the Cloud

MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the Converged Data Platform that fully integrates analytics with operational processes in real time, announced that Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) published an ESG Technical Review that evaluated the performance and scalability of running MapR-DB in the cloud, and compared results with two open-source NoSQL database offerings.

Impetus Workload Migration Solution, StreamAnalytix and OLAP on Big Data solution

In this video from the DataWorks Summit / Hadoop Summit 2017 conference in San Jose (June 13-15, 2017), insideBIGDATA’s Managing Editor and resident data scientist Daniel D. Gutierrez chats with Larry Pearson, VP Marketing of Impetus Technologies, Vineet Tyagi, CTO of Impetus Technologies, and Ajay Anand, VP Products of Kyvos Insights.

IBM Combines All-Flash and Storage Software Optimized for Hortonworks

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced a new all-flash, high-performance data and file management solution for enterprise clients running exabyte-scale big data analytics, cognitive and AI applications. The combined flash and storage software solution has been certified with the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) to provide clients with more choice in selecting the right platform for their big data analytics on data processing engines like Hadoop and Spark.

Arcadia Data Simplifies Security for Native Visual Analytics on Big Data

Arcadia Data, provider of the native visual analytics software for big data, has extended support for a unified security and management solution native to Apache Hadoop that includes certified integration with Apache Ranger. This announcement continues the company’s security strategy after the in-cluster security solution announced last year that enhanced its capabilities to deliver secure data directly in Hadoop, cloud, and other modern data platforms without sacrificing granular access control, overcoming the complexities of extraction, data movement and fragmented permission models inherent to legacy BI and analytics architectures that run outside of Hadoop.

Unravel Data Adds Native Support for Impala and Kafka

Unravel Data, the Application Performance Management (APM) platform designed for Big Data, announced that it has integrated support for Cloudera Impala and Apache Kafka into its platform, allowing users to derive the maximum value from those applications. Unravel continues to offer the only full-stack solution that doesn’t just monitor and unify system-level data, but rather tracks, correlates, and interprets performance data across the full-stack in order to optimize, troubleshoot, and analyze from a single pane.

Syncsort’s New Change Data Capture Capabilities Extend Mainframe Access and Integration to the Data Lake

Syncsort, a leader in data liberation, integrity and integration solutions for next-generation analytics, announced new capabilities in its unrivaled mainframe data access and integration solution that continuously, quickly and efficiently populates Hadoop data lakes with changes in mainframe data.

BlueData, Intel Compare Bare-Metal & Containers for Big Data Workloads

Has your business ever tried to decide between a bare-metal environment or a container-based environment for dealing with Big Data needs? BlueData and Intel collaborated to discuss this very issue in a benchmark study of the performance of Big Data workloads.

BlueData, HPE Combined Solution Works to Tackle Big-Data-as-a-Service Challenges

Big-Data-as-a-Service is growing in popularity and evolving to better suit the needs of today’s businesses. A recent white paper from BlueData describes a new solution for Big-Data-as-a-Service combining the BlueData EPIC software platform with the HPE Elastic Platform for Big Data Analytics.