Big Data Special Report – SiliconANGLE

AI powers the catalogs of next-generation big data

James Kobielus — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 20:48:34 +0000

Data’s relevance doesn’t always jump out at you. It takes work to distill useful insights from enterprise data lakes that are increasingly too large, diverse and dynamic to be explored through entirely manual methods. Discoverability and visibility are what unlocks data’s value. More enterprises are embracing big-data catalogs to harness insights that would otherwise stay […]

The post AI powers the catalogs of next-generation big data appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Honeycomb.io uses observability to find answers in a haystack of needles

Mark Albertson — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 12:37:35 +0000

In the complicated world of debugging modern software, metric and log-based tools only go so far. A small team of 25 engineers is hard at work inside a three-year-old startup company to improve viewable insight for event-driven problems in network systems. “We are an observability platform to help people find the unknown unknowns,” said Christine […]

The post Honeycomb.io uses observability to find answers in a haystack of needles appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Following Facebook data mess, two senators want to introduce legislation to protect user privacy

James Farrell — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 04:14:09 +0000

Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Republican John Kennedy Thursday proposed a bill to protect internet users from their data getting breached, following the Facebook Inc. data harvesting scandal that affected some 87 million of its users. The legislation, proposed after Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg was grilled for two straight days before several congressional committees, is […]

The post Following Facebook data mess, two senators want to introduce legislation to protect user privacy appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Big data had its glory days, but it needs deep learning to produce value

Teryn O'Brien — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 20:43:53 +0000

Big data was all the rage a few years ago, but data in and of itself is actually not that helpful without applied analytics. Because of this, companies today need to focus on the modern technologies that have emerged in recent months, including deep learning and other artificial intelligence methods trained to extract value from vast amounts […]

The post Big data had its glory days, but it needs deep learning to produce value appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Can graph databases fulfill the hype? We won’t know for sure until AWS’ Neptune arrives

James Kobielus — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 16:58:17 +0000

Graph technology has been the next big thing in the enterprise database market for longer than I can remember. It certainly doesn’t lack for dogged evangelists who tout graph as the silver bullet for practically every advanced computing application. So why hasn’t graph technology broken into the enterprise mainstream? Many major data platform vendors now offer graph-based solutions. But […]

The post Can graph databases fulfill the hype? We won’t know for sure until AWS’ Neptune arrives appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

How Hortonworks is weathering the big-data market’s shift away from Hadoop

James Kobielus — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 19:00:28 +0000

More often than they like to admit, tech vendors must put on a brave face when they’re groping for a robust growth path. In the big-data arena, that go-to-market messaging approach is very much in evidence among the vendors who pioneered the commercialization of the Hadoop programming framework for storing and processing very large data […]

The post How Hortonworks is weathering the big-data market’s shift away from Hadoop appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Cloudera has trouble shifting toward a total focus on the cloud era

James Kobielus — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 21:28:12 +0000

If a technology vendor is fortunate, it can define an era. If it’s less than fortunate, that era will continue to define the vendor to its disadvantage once the growth potential of its original go-to-market model has begun to wane. Cloudera Inc. has the ironic fortune to have named itself after an era it has only […]

The post Cloudera has trouble shifting toward a total focus on the cloud era appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Big-data bomb: Cloudera’s stock crashes 40% on slower-growth outlook

Mike Wheatley — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 02:53:52 +0000

Big-data management company Cloudera Inc. saw its stock take a huge beating in after-hours trading, falling by more than 28 percent thanks to lower-than-expected guidance on revenue growth this year. Update: On Wednesday, investors hammered shares even harder, as the stock fell 40 percent for the day. The company reported a loss after certain costs […]

The post Big-data bomb: Cloudera’s stock crashes 40% on slower-growth outlook appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

IBM Think 2018 trip report: Big Blue makes the data leap

Peter Burris — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 21:50:17 +0000

For years, IBM Corp. has described a “smarter planet” and the role that technology could play in solving big problems. At its recent flagship conference IBM Think 2018, the company initiated an effort to shift the conversation to “Let’s put smart to work.” It’s the right call-to-action for customers in the digital business era. But […]

The post IBM Think 2018 trip report: Big Blue makes the data leap appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

The era of big data moves into the realm of action and ethics

Mark Albertson — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 18:51:54 +0000

With big data and its consequences very much in the news this year, the conversation around the handling of information streams is turning toward issues such as privacy and bias. The big data era has moved from the technical requirements, such as ingestion and storage, into the realm of action, where enterprises need to put data […]

The post The era of big data moves into the realm of action and ethics appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Survey finds few organizations have reached big data’s promised land

Paul Gillin — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 14:37:45 +0000

A survey of organizations using big data has found that only a tiny minority have achieved transformational business value, while most are still at the tire-kicking stage. The survey of 5,600 respondents at 429 companies also found that most organizations think they’re more accomplished at using big data than they really are. The study was fielded by […]

The post Survey finds few organizations have reached big data’s promised land appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

How to solve those really hard data science problems? Throw a contest!

Paul Gillin — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 19:05:43 +0000

As the NCAA’s March Madness basketball tournament nears its climax over the next two weeks, data scientists around the world will be watching to see if their predictive algorithms survived the upsets that characterize the annual tourney. The winners will get bragging rights and recognition by SAP SE as part of its annual #ViztheMadness analytics […]

The post How to solve those really hard data science problems? Throw a contest! appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

The two ‘superpowers’ of data visualization

Kimberly Margaine — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 21:00:30 +0000

At a French engineering school, Nathalie Henry Riche (pictured) was one of only three women in her graduating class of 300. As a researcher at Microsoft since 2009, Henry Riche believes thought diversity — a variety of cultures, genders, age ranges and backgrounds — are more of a focus to her than just being a minority woman in her field. “Part of the […]

The post The two ‘superpowers’ of data visualization appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Elephant in the room: Hortonworks CEO thinks Hadoop software will keep driving big data

Paul Gillin — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 19:47:34 +0000

Since its founding in 2011, Hortonworks Inc. has fought battles on two fronts: Persuade corporations to adopt an entirely new, open-source data platform called Hadoop for a novel type of analytic processing and build a business selling software that customers can get elsewhere for free. By most accounts, Hortonworks is making good progress. The company […]

The post Elephant in the room: Hortonworks CEO thinks Hadoop software will keep driving big data appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Wikibon trip report from Big Data Silicon Valley: Big data lives!

Peter Burris — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 13:27:06 +0000

Here’s what my analyst colleague Neil Raden said to me at our recent annual Big Data Silicon Valley community gathering in San Jose: “I spent the day on the floor of Strata Data Conference, and I heard the term ‘big data’ maybe three times.” What’s going on? Have so many failed so often at big […]

The post Wikibon trip report from Big Data Silicon Valley: Big data lives! appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

IBM calls its new machine learning platform ‘the reinvention of the database’

Paul Gillin — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 13:00:23 +0000

IBM Corp. today unveiled a new data science and machine learning platform that one executive called “the most significant announcement we’ve made about data in years.” Featuring an in-memory database, a real-time processing engine and the ability to ingest and analyze massive amounts of data, the Cloud Private for Data constitutes an integrated data science, data […]

The post IBM calls its new machine learning platform ‘the reinvention of the database’ appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Cloudera founder Mike Olson: ‘We’re moving from automating processes to automating decisions’

Paul Gillin — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 19:45:50 +0000

The growing momentum of big data in the cloud has been described as a threat to Cloudera Inc., which is ironic given that the company’s original business plan was to sell big data as a cloud service. The market wasn’t ready in 2008, so Cloudera shifted to selling an integrated platform that combines various open-source […]

The post Cloudera founder Mike Olson: ‘We’re moving from automating processes to automating decisions’ appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Software, not hardware, will catapult big data into a $103B business by 2027

Mark Albertson — Sat, 10 Mar 2018 02:32:30 +0000

Peter Drucker, an early pioneer and leader in the field of management education, famously wrote that “the purpose of business is to create a customer.” His 20th century business philosophy has carried into the digital age with a new twist. Drucker might be more tempted to say that the purpose of business today is to […]

The post Software, not hardware, will catapult big data into a $103B business by 2027 appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Artificial intelligence technology shows signs of maturing, says Google AI expert

Aaron Melgar — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 21:34:35 +0000

Artificial intelligence and machine learning have long been touted as a silver bullet for enabling automation and improving productivity, but technological challenges had inhibited adoption. From the early days of his career, circa 2007, Ron Bodkin (pictured), technical director of applied artificial intelligence at Google LLC, has been involved in the development and deployment of the first manifestations […]

The post Artificial intelligence technology shows signs of maturing, says Google AI expert appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

MapR CEO John Schroeder: ‘We’re still in big data’s early innings’

Paul Gillin — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 21:09:08 +0000

MapR Technologies Inc. was one of the three high-profile startups — along with Cloudera Inc. and Hortonworks Inc. — to burst upon the scene during the feeding frenzy a few years ago around Hadoop, the open-source big-data software framework. Like its counterparts, the company originally focused on integrating and extending components in the Hadoop ecosystem. […]

The post MapR CEO John Schroeder: ‘We’re still in big data’s early innings’ appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Big data’s revival is here, domain expertise is returning, say analysts

Kristen Nicole — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 19:46:58 +0000

The term “big data” may have lost favor in recent years, but its byproducts have quietly been cultivating a revival. Through mainstream fascination (and fear) of machine intelligence, that swamp of stockpiled data is finally finding its footing in the business world. Now, eight years after SiliconANGLE’s first coverage of a dedicated big-data event, the […]

The post Big data’s revival is here, domain expertise is returning, say analysts appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Big data’s next chapter: Machine learning and automation explored at BigData SV 2018

Kylie Anderson — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 16:00:46 +0000

Data has been the driving force behind digital transformation, but will its benefits prove to be worth the cost and effort of regulatory compliance measures and top-down process overhauls? Looking to answer these and other questions, SiliconANGLE is hosting BigData SV 2018 in San Jose, California, with exclusive commentary and interviews from our roving news desk, theCUBE. […]

The post Big data’s next chapter: Machine learning and automation explored at BigData SV 2018 appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Big data transformed the world. Now it’s getting down to business

Paul Gillin — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 04:20:35 +0000

When the data scientists at messaging software maker Synchronoss Technologies Inc. embarked upon a new project in 2014 to store, manage and extract insights from the massive amounts of data produced in their business, they thought they had found the answer to their prayers: red-hot software with the funny name of Hadoop. Hadoop distributes and […]

The post Big data transformed the world. Now it’s getting down to business appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

To reach its full promise, big data must begin with a clean slate

Yaron Haviv — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 04:18:47 +0000

More than a decade has passed since we coined the term “big data,” and a decade in the tech world is almost infinity. Is big data now obsolete? The short answer is that although big data in itself may still have its place for some apps, the focus has shifted to integrating data-driven insights into […]

The post To reach its full promise, big data must begin with a clean slate appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

The cloud could finally lift the fortunes of big data analytics

Jim Kobielus, with George Gilbert and Ralph Finos — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 05:54:31 +0000

Big data analytics has emerged in recent years as the heart of the digital business, the basis for turning data into a business value that drives differentiating operations and customer experiences. But even as big data analytics, or BDA, has become a boardroom conversation, too often the discussion comes down to one difficult question: “Why […]

The post The cloud could finally lift the fortunes of big data analytics appeared first on SiliconANGLE.