Big Data - What's Innovative?

TigerGraph is a graph database that has just been formally released. It is targeted at real-time graph analytics.

Informatica continues to innovate

A Point Release of the Pentaho BI stack that is worthy of attention

SAS is being innovative in a number of areas, not least of which is opening up to other languages

ERwin has just been spun out from CA Technologies

Guavus - use analytics to determine the real impact of both investments and cuts. Enabling cost savings which do not impair the customer experience !

IBM and Informatica have both just come out with big data integration and governance products

This paper discusses the use of Hadoop-based appliances and then specific features of the Teradata Appliance for Hadoop.

Security is important for Hadoop data resources. This means that you must come to grips with Kerberos.

Apache is going to offer a lot more than just Hadoop analytics processing, with a database that can federate OLTP and big data analytics.

The Internet of Things will require distributed stream-based computing: ParStream is a pioneer in this area.

Savi is a specialist provider of IoT (Internet of Things) sensor-based analytics.

I recently shared a webcast with the CIO of Informatica

This paper briefly considers relevant IBM technologies and solutions in the context of the requirements discussed

Bitvore provides the ability to capture fresh data from the Internet and use it as a corporate asset

Springbok is a data preparation platform for business users.

Arria doesn't just analyse data for you, it presents the results, with recommendations, in natural language.

SpaceCurve looks like the sine qua non of geo-spatial databases.

Data preparation is emerging as a market in support of data scientists. Tamr is the new kid on the block but its antecedents suggest that it will be successful

There are a number of search/BI tools but SBS VALID is unique (I think) in being based on graph technology - and that provides significant advantages

Data preparation is the biggest part (around 80%) of and data discovery/mining exercise. Trifacta specialises in making this easy in a big data world.

Embarcadero comments on acquisition

Purview from Extreme Networks offers a probably unique insight capability sitting on top of your corporate network

A review of recent Pentaho announcements

Actian exploits its ParAccel, Pervasive Software and Versant Corporation acquisition as two new cloud offerings.

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

Preventative maintenance and asset optimisation are not the same thing

I take a look at Pervasive's DataRush, potentially the most disruptive idea in analytics since Bill Inmon told us to build data warehouses.

Cirro has introduced a data federation solution designed for big data. It could give the established vendors a run for their money.

There are a lot of start-ups trying to link CEP to Big Data but it is likely that the major vendors will push them out of the way.

The sort of data that is common in big data scenarios can be exploited in other ways too

Informix is targeting time-series based (instrumented) applications

A breakthrough application changes the way that the user does his work. It doesn't just automate processes: it innovates and alters them, often radically.

CXAIR is a BI tool that supports queries against both structured and unstructured data

How do you combine structured and unstructured data for query purposes?