Spark boasts a lot of processing power but still lacks maturity. There are difficulties in keeping it running, and its troubles with workload variety make it problematic for production applications.
- By Jake Dolezal
- August 19, 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
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
Quantum computing is still more theory than practice, but it might answer questions that are unsolvable by current computers. Earlier this year, IBM made a small quantum computer available via the cloud.
- By Lindsay Stares
- August 12, 2016
How do NoSQL databases distribute data in order to provide low-cost elastic scalability?
- By William McKnight
- August 9, 2016
It's cheaper than ever to host data processing workloads on IBM's zSeries mainframes. Now Rocket Software is touting the hitherto unthinkable: data virtualization for big iron.
- By Steve Swoyer
- August 8, 2016
A new survey basically confirms it: we're in the midst of a renaissance in which machine learning technologies are both widely available and increasingly easy to use.
- By Steve Swoyer
- August 4, 2016
Read how predictive analytics may help detect and predict data breaches, why what you don’t know can hurt your cybersecurity, and what enterprises should fix about their cloud security.
- By Quint Turner
- August 3, 2016