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When Big Data Meets Big Data Quality
Cleaning up big data is important because of the central role that analytics plays today. Your big data quality strategy should include a process of validating data against authoritative reference datasets and extracting entities from the unstructured data flowing in.
In this infographic, learn the benefits of putting together a big data quality plan to:
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YOUR GUIDE TO MODERN DATA ARCHITECTURE The data warehouse is an established concept and discipline that is discussed in many books, conferences and seminars. Into this world comes a new technology – Big Data. In this paper, William Inmon describes the differences and similarities between data warehouse architectures and Big Data technologies.
Sponsored by Database Trends and Applications | | | | |  | | | | | | | | | | Informatica Launches Comprehensive, Integrated Platform for Big Data Management | Informatica has announced a new big data management solution called Informatica Big Data Management that brings together big data Integration, big data quality and governance, and big data security in a single integrated solution. According to the vendor, while more than 67% of enterprises see the big opportunity in big data, the majority of big data projects fail. The new Informatica solution aims to help organizations more effectively overcome the data management challenges that are often at the root of big data project failures. In addition, Informatica Big Data Management is also designed to reduce the need for hand-coding and big data skill sets that are expensive and hard to come by.
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Full Article | | | SIOS iQ Machine Learning Analytics Platform Adds Features for VMware Environments | SIOS Technology Corp. is releasing an improved version of SIOS iQ machine learning analytics software today with new features that deliver accuracy and precision in performance root cause analysis for VMware environments. This new release also includes dashboard enhancements for improved usability and a graphical topological impact view enabling faster identification and resolution of issues. “We’ve spent a great deal of time building an extensible, flexible, and scalable platform,” said Jerry Melnick, president and CEO of SIOS.
Full Article | | | Looker Simplifies Construction of Data Analytics Platforms | Business intelligence provider Looker is releasing a series of Looker Blocks for Google BigQuery that are intended to make it easy to build an organization-wide data analytics platform. “What Looker is all about is creating a new experience for business users in these new database worlds,” said Frank Bien, Looker CEO. “Looker empowers the data team to curate a new kind of experience on these new data infrastructures and then allows the business people to explore that data and discover on a much larger scale across an organization so they can make better decisions.”
Full Article | | | IBM Doubles Down on Hybrid Cloud with New Acquisition | IBM has acquired Gravitant, Inc., a privately held company that develops cloud-based software to help organizations plan, buy and manage, or “broker,” software and computing services from multiple suppliers across hybrid clouds. With such capabilities, mixed environments of private and public clouds can begin to be integrated and digitally managed as one for greater performance and efficiency.
Full Article | | | Oracle Exadata Database Machine X5-8 Now Available | Oracle has announced that the new Oracle Exadata Database Machine X5-8, the latest in the X5 family of engineered systems which integrate hardware and software, is now available. The new Exadata X5-8 offers up to 576 CPU cores, more than 1.3 petabytes of disk storage or 180 terabytes of PCIe flash, and up to 24 terabytes of memory. The Oracle Exadata X5-8 is the new companion model to Oracle Exadata X5-2 and incorporates the same storage and networking capabilities of Oracle Exadata X5-2, which was announced in January 2015.
Full Article | | | MariaDB Platform now Available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace | MariaDB Corporation’s MariaDB Enterprise Cluster with MaxScale platform is now available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. “MariaDB Enterprise Cluster with MaxScale gives developers the enterprise-class availability and capabilities they need to provision and extend their applications in Azure within minutes, while maintaining compatibility with on-premises counterparts and enhancing availability and scalability.” said Mark Hill, VP for Open Source Sales and Marketing Strategy at Microsoft.
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| | | | | | Blurred Lines and Sloppy Data Models | Many neophyte data modelers have trouble distinguishing between logical and physical data models. These novices likely cannot explain why each model exists, or the differences expressed between them. Sadly, such confusion also exists in the realm of the experienced data modeler. Not to say an experienced data modeler can’t express the difference between a logical and a physical data model; but across a group of experienced data modelers one would not get a consistent answer. Data modeling tools only add to the confusion, as limited programming skills applied to tool development either have provided skewed, or occasionally no transformations, between what is logical and what is physical.
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