Analytics

Binding compute to storage considered harmful

The unbundling of the database is here

X marks the spot for digital transformation

Getting customer experience right is becoming a make-or-break for many businesses. And best-in-class digital transformation must be underpinned by enterprise, business, and IT roadmaps -- that is, by enterprise architecture

Why big data isn’t always the answer

Qualitative data can provide deeper insight into customers, behaviors and trends

Python-only no more, IPython becomes Jupyter

Julia, R, Scala, JavaScript, Matlab, and Bash are among the supported languages for the recomposed IPython

Why are software vendors going private?

For a private IT company, an IPO is seen as the ultimate achievement. But another trend is accelerating: public companies going private

The 7 most common Hadoop and Spark projects

Think you're breaking new ground with your Hadoop project? Odds are it fits neatly into one of these seven common types of projects

Google moves two cloud data analysis services out of beta

Google Cloud Dataflow and Google Pub/Sub are both now available as commercial services

IBM’s new $1B acquisition will help Watson ‘see’

When cable companies and fashion magazines invest in big data (literally)

It’s not the first acquisition of a technology company by a technology user, but why not just license the software? Why buy the vendor?

Visual ETL considered harmful (to your skills)

Why hasn't the ETL process evolved with the times?