MapR, DataStax offer options for container persistence

If it's lack of options for persistence that's keeping you from using containers, maybe it's time you reconsider.
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Would you like to have an end-to-end picture of your IT operations, but are lost in translation among a myriad monitoring solutions and metrics? Your monitoring should be as agile as your operations, and OpsDataStore says it can help you get there.
Read More →Digital transformation as a data-centric service

Is digital transformation something you can just buy into? No, but it is a data-centric process, and having the right products and people in place makes all the difference, according to Stratio.
Read More →Error – data not found: Precarious data and architectures of the future

Can data from organizations as prominent as NASA vanish into thin air? A grass-roots initiative lead by scientists and researchers believes it just might, and is doing everything in its power to prevent this.
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The financial services domain, where real-time is measured in milliseconds, holds particular interest for big data applications and vendors for a number of reasons: architecture, regulation, transparency, decision-making, and the need for speed.
Read More →Data to analytics to AI: From descriptive to predictive analytics

Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to be the buzzword du jour for organizations, but this is not an obvious or straightforward transition even for those building advanced products and platforms. Many organizations are still struggling with digital transformation to become data-driven, so how should they approach this new challenge?
Read More →From Brexit to Trump: How organizations can use data to prepare for and respond to political events

Politics and data do mix, apparently, so we try to count the ways.
Read More →How Trifacta is helping data wranglers in Hadoop, the cloud, and beyond

Trifacta is known for doing one thing, and doing it well: data wrangling. Because of this, the company has an informed, data-driven view on the big data and not-so-big data market. Trifacta's insights have driven its latest product release, but are also relevant to draw a big picture of big data.
Read More →IBM’s Watson does healthcare: Data as the foundation for cognitive systems for population health

Watson is IBM's big bet on AI, and healthcare is a prime domain for present and future applications. We take an inside look at Watson, why and how it can benefit healthcare, and what kind of data is used by whom in this process.
Read More →Open for business: How public data in private places works for AWS, publishers and users

Most people know Amazon Web Services as the biggest player in the cloud, but not as many know that AWS is also big on open data and onto a business model that can help everyone get value out of it. Jed Sundwall, AWS Global Open Data Lead, discusses.
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