Big Data - What's Changed?

Teradata has announced that it is spinning off the support and development of the Presto SQL on Hadoop engine, into a new company called Starburst Data.

TIBCO has announced the acquisition of Alpine Data. Last month it acquired Composite Software from Cisco and in the summer, it acquired Statistica. What's going on?

Why is data governance so hot right now?

A look at the journey that Pentaho have taken to develop the product to the level of its soon to be released Version 6,

At a live event On June 22nd 2015 Larry Ellison announced new additions to the Oracle Cloud Platform.

Companies are already making announcements ahead of next week's Strata conference.

An update on Acunu

ExtraHop Networks makes its structured wire data available to open big data repositories; it will soon add LOB data

Informatica is building support for big data query preparation and self-service.

Acunu appears to have gone out of business. Except it hasn't. What is going on and why aren't they telling us?

Speeding up data mining without diminishing its predictive power is an elusive goal, but RapidMiner look like they have a game changer of a solution

Acunu has released version 5.0 of its Acunu Analytics

Calpont has released version 4.0 of its warehouse. Major features include extended cloud support and open source licensing plus the ability to run on HDFS.

Acunu has announced a new version of Acunu Analytics

RainStor has just announced v5.5. The main features are bringing security to Hadoop and much faster search.

CA Technologies has a new CEO and a new vision

Pentaho have a new release that continues to confirm them as a viable supplier on enterprise BI solutions

Coraid's ZX-Series combines ZFS and scale-out Ethernet SAN to provide unified storage for cloud, video and big data workloads

My thoughts after being given an update on how IBM are progressing with the roll out of their BI and analytics suite following the recent spate of acquistions

Alteryx release a new version - and this is what is new

IBM probably has the largest portfolio of products covering the big data space

Cloudera has been the default standard for enterprise Hadoop implementation but perhaps not any longer.

There is too much confusion around the whole idea of big data

What's going to happen in 2011?

Vendors are adding additional features over and above columns to get improved performance but does this mean that they are heading into a niche?