Evaluate

Evaluate

Weigh the pros and cons of technologies, products and projects you are considering.

• What to know about the IBM Information Governance Catalog

  IBM's Information Governance Catalog provides organizations with a workflow-oriented data governance tool for organizing, managing and accessing their data assets. Continue Reading

• Cloud data management keeps companies grounded

  What separates cloud data management from on-premises tools isn't just a lot of hot air. Some of the much-heralded benefits that the cloud offers are cost savings and increased flexibility. At the same time, database managers that turn to the cloud ... Continue Reading

• Hadoop, Kafka creators big on big data streaming analytics

  In this edition of the Talking Data podcast, big data streaming analytics comes into focus. The technology formed a strong undercurrent at Strata + Hadoop World 2016. Continue Reading

• Inside the Hortonworks open enterprise Hadoop distribution

  The Hortonworks Data Platform consists entirely of projects built through the Apache Software Foundation and provides an open source environment for data collection, processing and analysis. Continue Reading

• Analytics and BI in the cloud get mixed reaction

  Managing and analyzing data in the cloud can reduce IT costs and simplify technology deployments and upgrades. But adoption levels remain relatively low, despite the potential benefits. Continue Reading

• Business analytics in the cloud slowly gains elevation

  Plenty of talk these days centers on the cloud and the many advantages it offers for data storage, management and analysis. Businesses are chomping at the bit to migrate almost everything to this nebulous phenomenon that can take the shape of public...Continue Reading

• A look at Amazon Elastic MapReduce cloud-based Hadoop

  The Amazon Elastic MapReduce Web service offers a managed Hadoop framework that enables users to distribute and process big data across dynamically scalable Amazon EC2 instances.Continue Reading

• Inside the Microsoft Azure HDInsight cloud infrastructure

  Azure HDInsight is a cloud implementation of Apache Hadoop that provides a software framework designed for processing, analyzing and reporting on big data.Continue Reading

• Data virtualization ushers in unified view of data

  A member-owned supply chain management company melded siloed data sets to gain a unified view of diverse data feeds.Continue Reading

• How to evaluate the features of data integration products

  Before you evaluate and select a data integration product, assess which must-have, should-have and nice-to-have features match your organization's specific needs.Continue Reading

• A buyer's guide to selecting the best data warehouse product

  With several deployment options and product choices, it's difficult to know where to start. This buyer's guide helps you choose the right data warehouse product for your company.Continue Reading

• Apache Spark architecture declares independence in some big data apps

  It comes as no great surprise that the Apache Spark architecture has been horning in on the batch processing domain once controlled by Hadoop's MapReduce. But that's only part of the story. With data processing, streaming and machine learning ...Continue Reading

• IBM's dashDB forges data warehouse in the cloud

  Amazon's Redshift led the way in cloud data warehouses. Now IBM hopes to catch up on the wings of dashDB.Continue Reading

• Strata + Hadoop World 2016: Hadoop and Spark in spotlight

  The Strata + Hadoop World conference focuses on big data management and analytics technologies, in particular the Hadoop distributed processing framework and Spark processing engine.Continue Reading

• Big data platforms pose structural issues for new users

  Big data systems require the same kind of data partitioning and setup steps as conventional ones do. But first, users have to learn how to make that process work in Hadoop and Spark.Continue Reading