Mike Vizard

MapR Technologies at the Strata Data Conference this week advanced its case of processing analytics in real time via an update to the database it makes available to run on the converged system it developed on top of Hadoop. The latest version of MapR-DB adds support for self-service SQL data exploration as well as connectors […]

Informatica at the Strata Data Conference today announced a data management platform that makes use of machine learning and other artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to enforce compliance policies across an entire data lake created on a Big Data platform such as Hadoop. Based on an Informatica CLAIRE engine for analyzing metadata, Ronen Schwartz, senior vice […]

Turns out that advances in wireless networking are being held up by firewalls that can’t keep up. To address that issue, SonicWall this week unveiled a 2.5 Gigabit NSA 2650 firewall alongside a SonicWave 802.11ac Wave 2 wireless access point. In addition, SonicWall released an update to the SonicOS operating system that sports a new […]

Zoom Video Communications at a Zoomtopia Users Conference this week announced it has developed a Meeting Transcript capability that employs machine learning algorithms to convert the words spoken in a video conference into text. Oded Gal, head of products for Zoom Video Communications, says users will also be able to search that text to find […]

Regardless of the type of IT infrastructure being employed, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) is making the case that the time has come for midmarket IT organizations to make the switch to an all-Flash environment. HPE this week unveiled a raft of storage arrays, Proliant Gen10 servers and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) offerings based on all-Flash configurations. New […]

Like most applications, the place where an analytics application gets developed and eventually deployed are rarely one and the same. An application may be developed in the cloud and then deployed locally or vice versa. The problem is that all those applications invariably need to be refactored when moving from one IT environment to another. […]

At a SAP TechEd 2017 conference, SAP today launched a series of initiatives that expand the scope and reach of the company’s cloud ambitions. Starting with making available a public beta release of the SAP Cloud Platform for integrating and building custom applications on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), to making it possible to employ […]

Not only is there more data than ever that needs to be managed, but much of that data is more distributed than ever. To make it simpler to manage distributed computing environments based on Hadoop, Hortonworks today unveiled a centralized management platform through which data and application workloads deployed on multiple instances of Hadoop can […]

As the amount of data that IT organizations need to access increases, many of them are wrestling with how to manage multiple data pipelines spanning multiple sources. SAP today unveiled a SAP Data Hub that is intended to make it easier to both manage and integrate data between enterprise applications and Big Data platforms without […]

Cisco today moved to shift all the weight associated with managing its IT environment into the cloud. Cisco Intersight is an instance of the company’s disparate IT management platforms that are all now being unified via a cloud service that IT administrators can employ to manage Cisco servers, storage and networking technologies as well as […]

One of the more niggling issues associated with hybrid cloud computing is that most of the storage deployed on-premises today involves file systems, while cloud service providers (CSPs) almost universally rely on object-based systems. To make use of those object-based systems, IT organizations wind up relying on any number of cloud gateways. Qumulo this week […]

One upon a time, the performance of an analytics application was not nearly as important as it is today. Historically, most analytics applications were focused on historical events so a fast database was something nice to have. But as analytics now gets injected into every transaction in real time, the performance capabilities of the underlying […]