Contributor: Steve Swoyer
Stephen Swoyer is a technology writer with more than 16 years of experience. His writing has focused on business intelligence, data warehousing, and analytics for almost a decade. He’s particularly intrigued by the thorny people and process problems most BI and DW vendors almost never want to acknowledge, let alone talk about.
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All articles by Steve Swoyer
Because Spark can run independently of Hadoop, some see the two as competitors. However, these technologies can complement each other depending on enterprise needs.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 22, 2016
Spark is a hot topic right now. So hot, in fact, it's surpassed Hadoop as the open source technology with the most widespread appeal. Whether it can sustain this momentum is another matter.
- By Steve Swoyer
- August 22, 2016
According to the experts at the Pacific Northwest BI Summit, data management must learn from the self-service revolution and respect business needs or risk a return to siloed data.
- By Steve Swoyer
- August 18, 2016
Microsoft's new Power BI Embedded service gets at a significant issue for data management professionals: anemic BI uptake, what we could call BI disuse.
- By Steve Swoyer
- August 17, 2016
The reallocation of IT spending from traditional on-premises to cloud resources will impact about $1 trillion in IT spending through 2020. We look at four key spending shifts.
- By Steve Swoyer
- August 16, 2016
Gartner's Merv Adrian dropped a bombshell last month, predicting that Hadoop as we know it may soon cease to exist.
- By Steve Swoyer
- August 15, 2016