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May 31, 2019 31 May'19
MapR's future in jeopardy, layoffs loom

It's right there in a MapR letter to California's labor department: A leader in the Hadoop market is desperately seeking funding after poor sales of its promising data platform.
May 01, 2019 01 May'19
Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia replaced by former ServiceNow CEO

Frank Slootman, who led ServiceNow and Data Domain through successful IPOs, is the new chairman and CEO of cloud data warehouse vendor Snowflake, replacing former CEO Bob Muglia.
April 30, 2019 30 Apr'19
Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia talks cloud data warehouse evolution

In this Q&A, now-former Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia discusses the vendor's decision to embrace cloud data warehousing and how the industry is changing as more data moves to the cloud.
April 29, 2019 29 Apr'19
Wayfair charts open source components course to growth

Teams at Wayfair mix new open source tools to power customer-facing apps. In such shops, tech leaders like Ben Clark must deftly maneuver an obstacle course of data components.

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Data virtualization tools promote anywhere, anytime data access

This online handbook examines data virtualization software and how organizations are deploying and using the technology as part of their data integration processes. Continue Reading
Hadoop

Hadoop is an open source distributed processing framework that manages data processing and storage for big data applications running in clustered systems. Continue Reading
Data model design tips to help standardize business data

Data models should be understandable to business users and kept to a reasonable scope, say the leaders of a data modeling initiative at England's Environment Agency. Continue Reading

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Data virtualization benefits seen in unified views, IT agility

Through in-place integration, data virtualization platforms can provide wider access to data and simplify security and governance. But they come with some limitations. Continue Reading
Data virtualization use cases cover more integration tasks

In a Q&A, Gartner analyst Mark Beyer discusses user adoption of data virtualization software and the wider data integration uses that the technology is now handling. Continue Reading
4 factors to consider in a Hadoop distributions comparison

Examine the key characteristics necessary to evaluate in a Hadoop distribution comparison, focusing on enterprise features, subscription options and deployment models. Continue Reading

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Building leaner, meaner BI data sources

As business intelligence analysis and reporting platforms become increasingly important in the enterprise, so does the data that feeds them. Are your BI data sources up to par? Continue Reading
Data virtualization layer feeds logical data warehouse, Agile BI

Indiana University is using data virtualization to combine data from various source systems for analysis, as part of an initiative to improve strategic decision-making. Continue Reading
Data modeling best practices power analytics, business apps

Data modeling is a key part of data management and analytics. This handbook highlights best practices for creating data models and new functionality in modeling tools. Continue Reading

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Four first steps for customer data management

Forrester's Mike Gualtieri details how to develop a unified plan to manage customer data that gives business users what they need to manage CRM programs. Continue Reading
What's the difference between DDL and DML?

What's the difference between DDL and DML? Get the answer and see examples of data manipulation language and data definition language commands for SQL databases. Continue Reading
Data integration techniques to help keep BI data consistent

Data integration processes that aren't managed properly can create inconsistent data in BI and analytics applications. Here are some steps to avoid that problem. Continue Reading

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