Inside Big Data White Papers

This new white paper from Striim, "Streaming Cloud Integration: Key Data Considerations for Hybrid and Multicloud Architectures," is a timely guide for enterprise decision makers who have accepted the benefits of moving to the cloud: elastic scalability, agility to launch innovative solutions quickly using modern technologies, better cash flow management, and lower expenses with a pay-as-you-go model, just to name a few. Read More »

For data scientists looking to apply Apache Spark’s advanced analytics techniques and deep learning models at scale, Databricks is happy to provide The Data Scientist’s Guide to Apache Spark. Download this eBook to: Learn the fundamentals of advanced analytics and receive a crash course in machine learning. Get a deep dive on MLlib, the primary […] Read More »

This study was designed to document key perceptions, challenges, and successes by focusing on data organization, integration, security, and definitional clarification to address key areas of concern and interest in ongoing data lake adoption. The intent of the survey and this corresponding report is to understand and share the current and planned adoption of technologies in the Hadoop ecosystem, intended specifically for a data lake strategy, and to learn how adopting companies are addressing critical data lake success factors, including rethinking data for the long-term, establishing governance first, and tackling security needs upfront. The survey and report also identify emergent areas of concern and new areas of clarification needed for data lake maturity. Read More »

Despite fears that robots will replace human labor, the majority of artificial intelligence (AI) leaders (79 percent) expect their employees will work comfortably with robots by 2020, according to this new global study released from Genpact of C-Suite and senior executives titled, Is Your Business AI-Ready? Yet, additional findings from the survey show that inherent […] Read More »

Kdb+ is a column-based relational database with extensive in-memory capabilities, developed and marketed by Kx Systems. Like all such products, it is especially powerful when it comes to supporting queries and analytics. To learn more download this white paper. Read More »

Many companies are confusing adopting big data technology with creating a coherent big data strategy and in the process are creating big data debt. In this paper we present our remedy for big data debt – a data and analytics centric approach. This approach is a set of concepts and guidelines that allow us to invest in big data and get increasing long-term returns rather than spending money to get short-term payback that creates long-term debt. Read More »