Hadoop

Introducing the Neo4j Connector for Apache Spark

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Thursday, November 12, 2020
Computing, Data management, Free software, Graph databases, Structured storage, Java platform, NoSQL, Neo4j, Hadoop, Apache Spark

SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Neo4j , the leader in graph technology, announced today the Neo4j Connector for Apache Spark , an integration tool to move data bi-directionally between the Neo4j Graph Platform and Apache SparkTM.

Key Points: 
  • SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Neo4j , the leader in graph technology, announced today the Neo4j Connector for Apache Spark , an integration tool to move data bi-directionally between the Neo4j Graph Platform and Apache SparkTM.
  • The Neo4j Connector for Apache Spark comes in response to high demand from the Spark and Neo4j communities to apply graphs to machine learning pipelines, unify data silos and derive greater value from existing data stores.
  • For Spark Users:The Neo4j Connector for Apache Spark brings advanced graph capabilities to the Spark ecosystem so businesses can use contextual information to improve forecasting, analytics and predictions.
  • "With the Neo4j Connector for Apache Spark, our customers can consolidate their data pipelines and supercharge their Neo4j Graphs with access to the massive Spark ecosystem.

WANdisco Launches LiveData Partner Network, Shifts to a Partner-First Model to Accelerate Global Expansion of LiveData Cloud Services

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Thursday, November 5, 2020
Hadoop, WANdisco, Information technology, Companies, Computing, Infosys

SAN RAMON, Calif., Nov. 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- WANdisco , the LiveData company, announced today the launch of its global WAN disco LiveData Partner Network as part of a new partner first go-to-market strategy.

Key Points: 
  • SAN RAMON, Calif., Nov. 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- WANdisco , the LiveData company, announced today the launch of its global WAN disco LiveData Partner Network as part of a new partner first go-to-market strategy.
  • He also was instrumental in developing the company's recently formed partner-first, go-to-market model and partnerships with Microsoft and Infosys.
  • The WANdisco LiveData Partner Network is designed to meet the critical needs and interests of companies that seek to become consulting, software, platform, OEM, or distribution partners.
  • The curriculum contains technical and sales-related courses, developed to help enhance knowledge, drive performance, and accelerate revenue with WANdisco technology and solutions.

Alluxio Accelerates Scale, Introduces Data Orchestration Console to Advance Hybrid and Multi-cloud Data Orchestration

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Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Free software, Computing, Data management, Alluxio, Free and open-source software, Apache Hadoop, Data lake, Data, SQL, Hadoop, Presto

Data platform teams can now save on infrastructure and operational costs, while easily managing data access across multiple environments.

Key Points: 
  • Data platform teams can now save on infrastructure and operational costs, while easily managing data access across multiple environments.
  • Data orchestration decouples compute from the location of data to optimize for which data resides where and for how long without the management overhead.
  • Alluxio 2.4 Community and Enterprise Edition features new capabilities, including:
    Expanded Metadata Service - At the core of the Alluxio Data Orchestration Platform is a metadata service, a scalable, distributed data service for management across multiple sources like traditional Hadoop-based data lakes on-premises or modern cloud-based data lakes.
  • New management console The Alluxio Data Orchestration Hub is a new web-based management console that makes it easy to connect an analytics or machine learning clusters with multiple data sources to unify data lakes.

Riverbed Appoints Shaun Bierweiler to SVP, Public Sector

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Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Networks, Internet, Data management, Technology, Software, Hadoop, Business, Articles, Computing, Apache Software Foundation, Hortonworks, Riverbed Technology, Cloudera, Chief operating officer, LinkedIn, Dan Smoot

Riverbed announced today the appointment of Shaun Bierweiler to Senior Vice President for Public Sector.

Key Points: 
  • Riverbed announced today the appointment of Shaun Bierweiler to Senior Vice President for Public Sector.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201014005254/en/
    LinkedIn: Riverbed appoints Shaun Bierweiler to SVP, Public Sector: https://rvbd.ly/2GZnggW
    Shaun brings precisely what we need for this moment in time at Riverbed: deep domain expertise in the public sector, where hes spent his entire career; strong customer engagement; and a passion for the complexities and possibilities of the technology were building here, said Dan Smoot, COO of Riverbed Technology.
  • Prior to joining Cloudera, Bierweiler was President of Hortonworks Federal, Inc. and Vice President of U.S. Public Sector at Hortonworks.
  • Im very pleased to join Riverbed, a Company with a long-standing history and strong reputation of providing mission critical technology and software to the U.S. Public Sector and large federal agencies, said Shaun Bierweiler.

Instaclustr Continues to Expand Managed Apache Kafka Services – Adds Managed Mirroring and Dedicated ZooKeeper Nodes

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Monday, October 12, 2020
Computing, Writers, Hadoop, Apache ZooKeeper, Configuration management, Fiction, Apache Kafka, Franz Kafka, Node

Dedicated Apache ZooKeeper nodes are also now available as part of Instaclustrs managed Apache Kafka offering.

Key Points: 
  • Dedicated Apache ZooKeeper nodes are also now available as part of Instaclustrs managed Apache Kafka offering.
  • Our newly introduced Managed Mirroring and dedicated ZooKeeper nodes add to the breadth of options at our customers command when it comes to ensuring the reliability and versatility of their managed Kafka deployments.
  • Dedicated ZooKeeper nodes also make it possible to scale ZooKeeper nodes independently of Kafka, further decreasing any possibility of I/O conflicts between ZooKeeper and Kafka processes.
  • Customers interested in Instaclustrs new dedicated ZooKeeper nodes, Managed Mirroring, or in receiving a free trial of Instaclustr-managed Kafka or Kafka Connect can contact Instaclustr here .

A New IDC MarketScape Assesses Eleven Providers of Advanced Machine Learning Platforms

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Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Software, Mobile, Wireless, Networks, Professional services, Internet, Hardware, Data management, Technology, Semiconductor, Security, Other Technology, Consulting, Telecommunications, Articles, Computing, Information technology, Business software, Cloud infrastructure, Cloudera, Hadoop, Alteryx, Dataiku, Machine learning, SAS, Educational technology, IDC MarketScape, IDC

The eleven advanced machine learning platform providers evaluated in this MarketScape report are: Alteryx, Amazon Web Services, Cloudera, Dataiku, DataRobot, Google, H2O.ai, IBM, MathWorks, Microsoft, and SAS.

Key Points: 
  • The eleven advanced machine learning platform providers evaluated in this MarketScape report are: Alteryx, Amazon Web Services, Cloudera, Dataiku, DataRobot, Google, H2O.ai, IBM, MathWorks, Microsoft, and SAS.
  • Advanced machine learning platforms can also include development, training, and deployment tools, including pretrained models and automatic machine learning methods that help developers and business users to experiment, automate machine learning, and build and deploy artificial intelligence models into production.
  • The report, IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Advanced Machine Learning Software Platforms 2020 Vendor Assessment (IDC #US45358820), provides an assessment of eleven advanced machine learning software platform providers.
  • This assessment discusses both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that provide guidance about advanced machine learning software platform vendors and their offerings utilizing the IDC MarketScape framework.

Kyvos Insights at Tableau Conference 2020 as a Platinum Sponsor

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Thursday, October 1, 2020
Data, Hadoop, Information technology, Kyvos, Los Gatos, California, Online analytical processing, Computing, Tableau

LOS GATOS, California, Oct. 1, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Kyvos insights, a leading Cloud BI Acceleration company, will be joining the Tableau conference-ish this year as the platinum sponsor from October 68, 2020 (in the USA) and Oct. 79 (in Europe and Asia Pacific).

Key Points: 
  • LOS GATOS, California, Oct. 1, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Kyvos insights, a leading Cloud BI Acceleration company, will be joining the Tableau conference-ish this year as the platinum sponsor from October 68, 2020 (in the USA) and Oct. 79 (in Europe and Asia Pacific).
  • Fully virtual and 100% free for the first time, the Tableau conference will bring together data visionaries from all around the world.
  • As a sponsor at TC20, Kyvos Insights will deliver LIVE demonstrations of their BI acceleration platform, Kyvos.
  • "We're delighted to be a part of the most awaited data conference of the year, both as a partner and sponsor.

Certilytics Named Cloudera Data Impact Awards Finalist

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Monday, September 28, 2020
Computing, Information technology, Business intelligence, Data, Hadoop, Cloud infrastructure, Cloudera, Formal sciences, Apache Hadoop, Predictive analytics, Analytics

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Sept. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Certilytics, Inc. has been named a finalist for a Cloudera Data Impact Award , a recognition of Certilytics' industry-leading technology ecosystem that processes massive healthcare data sets to produce sophisticated predictive intelligence for health plans, PBMs, government entities, and provider health systems.

Key Points: 
  • LOUISVILLE, Ky., Sept. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Certilytics, Inc. has been named a finalist for a Cloudera Data Impact Award , a recognition of Certilytics' industry-leading technology ecosystem that processes massive healthcare data sets to produce sophisticated predictive intelligence for health plans, PBMs, government entities, and provider health systems.
  • Certilytics was named a finalist in the "Data for Enterprise AI" category, which honors organizations that "have built and deployed systems for enterprise-scale machine learning and have industrialized AI to automate, secure, and standardize data-driven decision making."
  • "Congratulations to Certilytics for their placement as a finalist in the annual Data Impact Awards, which recognizes the best of the best innovative organizations running the Cloudera platform," said Mick Hollison, CMO, Cloudera.
  • The selection highlights Certilytics' incorporation of Apache Hadoop software libraries available from Cloudera into a highly scalable data processing and analytics framework, the Certilytics Predictive Healthcare Analytics Ecosystem , which processes more than 30M patient lives per week.

WANdisco Announces Global Agreement with Infosys to De-Risk and Accelerate Data Lake Migration to the Cloud

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Thursday, September 24, 2020
Computing, Cloud infrastructure, IT infrastructure, Cloud storage, Hadoop, WANdisco, Data migration, Infosys, Cloud computing, Microsoft Azure, Migration

Together, WANdisco and Infosys will help enterprises to successfully migrate their data lakes to major public clouds including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.

Key Points: 
  • Together, WANdisco and Infosys will help enterprises to successfully migrate their data lakes to major public clouds including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
  • Infosys will leverage LiveData Migrator to help enterprises transition on-premise data lakes to the cloud and ensure continued business performance.
  • Infosys Data Wizard solution augments WANdisco's LiveData Migrator offering by providing rich graphical user interface-driven migration life cycle management.
  • The solution provides a seamless and intuitive user experience for inventory collection, analysis, migration planning, migration, validation and data certification, thus automating the end-to-end data migration life cycle.

WANdisco Announces Global Agreement with Infosys to De-Risk and Accelerate Data Lake Migration to the Cloud

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Thursday, September 24, 2020
Computing, Cloud infrastructure, IT infrastructure, Cloud storage, Hadoop, WANdisco, Data migration, Infosys, Cloud computing, Microsoft Azure, Migration

Together, WANdisco and Infosys will help enterprises to successfully migrate their data lakes to major public clouds including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.

Key Points: 
  • Together, WANdisco and Infosys will help enterprises to successfully migrate their data lakes to major public clouds including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
  • Infosys will leverage LiveData Migrator to help enterprises transition on-premise data lakes to the cloud and ensure continued business performance.
  • Infosys Data Wizard solution augments WANdisco's LiveData Migrator offering by providing rich graphical user interface-driven migration life cycle management.
  • The solution provides a seamless and intuitive user experience for inventory collection, analysis, migration planning, migration, validation and data certification, thus automating the end-to-end data migration life cycle.