Amazon and commercial open source in the cloud: It’s complicated

What do the data tell us about the relationship between cloud vendors — specifically, Amazon and commercial open source vendors?
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Logz.io unveils its cloud offering for infrastructure monitoring based on open source platforms Elastic and Grafana. Its strategy may give it an edge, but also raises open source sustainability questions
Read More →Want to discover the knowledge graphs in your enterprise data? Siren just secured $10 Million to help do that

Siren promises the benefits of knowledge graphs, without the hassle of reinventing your existing data management and infrastructure
Read More →GoodData partners with Amazon on Redshift: When data goes cloud, cloud data goes into analytics

Adding support for an AWS product is usually a good idea for 3rd party vendors. Adding a partnership on top of that is even better. GoodData is doing that, and more, on its way to offer analytics to everyone.
Read More →The new New Relic: Past BI and the dashboard, toward AI and AIOps

When applications and data change, what should a platform built to monitor them do? It should also change to keep with the times, and that's what New Relic is doing.
Read More →Advancing human exploration: Is space the final frontier, and how can data and AI get us there?

Fifty years after the moon landing, it's not just NASA working on what many consider the final frontier for humanity: space travel. NASA, however, is special, and one of the reasons is that data is at the heart of what it does.
Read More →Getting your corporate data ready for prescriptive analytics: data quantity and quality in equal measures

Good news: there's nothing special about getting your data ready for prescriptive analytics. Bad news: you need to do what's needed to get your data ready for any type of analytics – and that's hard work.
Read More →A guide for prescriptive analytics: The art and science of choosing and applying the right techniques

Prescriptive analytics is nothing short of automating your business. But there's lots of hard work, and many stages you need to go through before you get there.
Read More →Safety in data: Implementing data-driven road safety

Using data to improve road safety sounds like a good idea, but the devil is in the details.
Read More →2019 will be another ‘Year of the Graph’: OpenCorporates is evidence No. 1

Graph databases are crossing the chasm to mainstream use cases, adding features such as machine learning to their arsenal and becoming more cloud and developer friendly. Last year was a breakout year, and graph database growth and evolution is well under way in 2019.
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