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• October 05, 2017 05 Oct'17

  Big data systems up ante on data quality measures for users

  At the Strata conference in New York, IT managers detailed steps they're taking to improve data quality in their big data environments in order to help ensure analytics accuracy.

• September 28, 2017 28 Sep'17

  MapR-DB uses NoSQL to drive real-time analytics

  The Strata conference in New York saw big data platform vendor MapR Technologies update MapR-DB, its NoSQL database engine, to better perform in real-time analytics applications.

• September 26, 2017 26 Sep'17

  Bank sees ETL processes evolve from IT to front-line users

  ETL jobs -- once the sole province of IT -- take on a new form as data wrangling and self-service gain greater traction with business users of analytics.

• September 06, 2017 06 Sep'17

  Energy partnership drills down on data quality issues

  Breitburn Energy Partners employed data quality tools to address the business pain of bad data, using the software to give end users the means to fix data quality issues themselves.

• August 31, 2017 31 Aug'17

  Confluent's Kafka data-streaming framework gets 'SQL-ized'

  SQL on Hadoop arrived -- so did SQL on Spark. Now, SQL on Kafka is emerging to provide a different way to look at Kafka data as it streams through the enterprise.

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• August 30, 2017 30 Aug'17

  Big data vendors, users see Hadoop stack from different sides

  In this Talking Data podcast, TechTarget editors discuss Hadoop's future, IBM's decision to resell the Hortonworks distribution of the open source technology and other big data issues.

• July 31, 2017 31 Jul'17

  Apache Arrow to power startup Dremio's self-service data platform

  Data management startup Dremio has aimed its Apache Arrow expertise at the problem of self-service data delivery. In-column caches and optimization speed queries across varied data stores.

• July 24, 2017 24 Jul'17

  Chief data officer jobs call for nurturing data ethos in companies

  In many organizations, chief data officer jobs centered on defense against risk are giving way to ones emphasizing innovation. To do so, CDOs must nurture a data culture, MIT panelists said.

• July 10, 2017 10 Jul'17

  MongoDB 'Charts' a way to dashboard visualization from its database

  MongoDB targets better dashboard visualization with MongoDB Charts, which adds another means for business users trying to look into their NoSQL data pools.

• June 30, 2017 30 Jun'17

  Agile database development spurs changes in data tech, DBA roles

  The quest for the agile database is putting developers in the forefront and has some DBA tasks moving to the development groups, according to panelists at a conference in Boston.

• June 29, 2017 29 Jun'17

  Data governance crucial to comply with EU's GDPR legislation

  With the EU's new General Data Protection Regulation looming on the horizon, companies -- including many in the U.S. -- need to get going on required data governance upgrades.

• June 23, 2017 23 Jun'17

  MongoDB Atlas footprint grows bigger with Azure, Google cloud support

  MongoDB has expanded cloud coverage for its Atlas hosted database service, with Azure and Google versions joining an initial AWS-based offering to give users a choice on cloud platforms.

• June 20, 2017 20 Jun'17

  IBM bets on Hortonworks Hadoop platform as its big data engine

  IBM pulled the plug on its distribution of Hadoop in favor of reselling Hortonworks' bundle of big data technologies, a decision that reduces the number of Hadoop vendors to four.

• May 31, 2017 31 May'17

  Data prep for deep learning applications means careful planning

  Deep learning applications often require a mix of data, and assorted preprocessing techniques. That makes data preparation a priority, and conventional machine learning may have a role to play.

• May 12, 2017 12 May'17

  Startup Confluent makes Kafka cloud play to ease streaming deployment

  Kafka is a linchpin in many on-premises big data pipelines. Now, software vendor Confluent is offering a Kafka cloud service to ease use of the messaging and data streaming system in the cloud.