Kony announces Kony Visualizer Kony is releasing a new mobile app design and development solution for Android, iOS, Windows and the Web. Kony Visualizer allows business users, designers and developers to collaborate, create native and Web mobile app experiences, and cut development time by half, according to the company. “We’ve heard from our customers that … continue reading
Developers can now become Apache Spark certified. Databricks, the company that founded the open-source Big Data processing engine, and O’Reilly Media are teaming up to launch the Apache Spark Developer Certification Program. Spark made strides earlier this year when the Apache Software Foundation moved it from Apache Incubator to a top-level project. “The adoption of … continue reading
More and more businesses are working with NoSQL and SQL databases, but the problem is that there isn’t anybody providing a vision for how these different database tools might come together, according to Dave Rosenthal, CEO of FoundationDB. FoundationDB wants to change that. The company just released a free, open-source SQL database engine that sits … continue reading
The software cooks at Chef today have put out the first release candidate for version 12 of the configuration-management platform. This is the first version of Chef to include rules-based controls and multi-tenancy support in both commercial and open-source versions, thus removing the distinctions between the two. Instead, Chef will now charge users with more … continue reading
BZ Media LLC today announced its opening keynote at Big Data TechCon, the how-to technical conference for IT professionals implementing Big Data. Gloria Lau, manager of data science at LinkedIn, will keynote on “Building Data Products: The Right Order of Things.” The three-day conference, October 27 – 29, will feature the keynote at 11:45 am … continue reading
One of the biggest problems developers face when building data-driven apps is having to access data from multiple data sources, according to R. Paul Singh, CEO of Espresso Logic. “What we are seeing and hearing is a lot of customers’ data isn’t in SQL only; they also have it in NoSQL databases,” he said. “Having … continue reading
Big Data 1.0 is not easy, it’s not fast and it’s not for everyone, but Big Data 2.0 looks to change that, according to Christopher Nguyen, CEO and cofounder of Adatao. “We see Adatao as the bridge that builds the current Hadoop of the Big Data world, which is Big Data 1.0, to 2.0,” he … continue reading
Splice Machine, provider of the only Hadoop RDBMS, today announced a $3 million extension to its Series B financing. Venture capital firm Correlation Ventures, along with well-known database industry luminaries Roger J. Sippl and Roger Bamford, provided the additional investment to help Splice Machine accelerate its product development and build out the sales and marketing … continue reading
The bigger Big Data gets, the more need, it seems, developers have for complex event processing outside of Hadoop. In its 2014 Big Data & Advanced Analytics Survey, market research firm Evans Data found that only 16% of developers said Hadoop batch processing was satisfactory in all use cases. Seventy-one percent of the more than … continue reading
IBM’s Watson to help military community IBM and USAA, a financial services provider for the military community, have announced that the cognitive capabilities of IBM’s Watson supercomputer will now be available to military men and women as they transition to civilian life. USAA will be offering members IBM’s Watson Engagement Advisor in a pilot that … continue reading
Where do your employees go to find shared data? If it’s external data, probably an external search engine, like Google (which apparently holds 67.6% of the U.S. market) or Bing (18.7%) or one of the niche players. What about internal data? If your organization uses a platform like Microsoft’s SharePoint, that platform includes a pretty … continue reading
Oracle has announced a new tool called Oracle Big Data SQL, designed to break down data silos of separate platforms by integrating a single SQL query across multiple databases, including Hadoop, NoSQL and the Oracle Database. The tool runs on the Oracle Big Data Appliance platform, which integrates Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution. Big Data SQL leverages … continue reading
