David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 5, 2018

In 2017 Strata + Hadoop World was changed to the Strata Data Conference. As I pointed out in my coverage of last year’s event , the focus was largely on machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). That theme continued this year, but my impression of the event was of a community looking to get value out of data regardless of the technology being used to manage that data.

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Juice Analytics

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Legendary Alabama coach Bear Bryant believed in defense: “Offense sells tickets, but defense wins championships.” Legendary boxer Jack Dempsey saw virtue in offense: "The best defense is a good offense.” Legendary analytics guru Thomas Davenport takes a more neutral stance in his Harvard Business Review article What’s your Data Strategy? "The key is to balance offense and defense.

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 3, 2018

We’ve just announced that Cloudera and Hortonworks have agreed to merge to form a single company. I want to explain the thinking behind the deal and the combination. Rob Bearden from Hortonworks has written up a post sharing his thoughts, as well. First, remember the history of Apache Hadoop. Google built an innovative scale-out platform for data storage and analysis in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and published research papers about their work.

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Many people agree that artificial intelligence (AI) is the key to the future of business. However, unlocking the full potential of AI has proven elusive for many companies, especially at the enterprise level.

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DataRobot Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2018

by Jen Underwood. Long time, no news summaries…what happened? I’ll share the scoop on that soon. In the meantime, Cloudera and Hortonworks announced a merger that was really “big” news yesterday. That merger. Read More.

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Paul Blogs on BI

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Buying a car has always been a challenging experience for me. I never know what to buy, when to buy, what features to include, and I definitely don’t enjoy the inevitable frustrating bartering with the sales and finance people. I also still haven’t figured out why I always end up with this invisible ZakTek protection coat despite stating right up front that I don’t want it.

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The IBM Integrated Analytics System (IIAS), is a unique, cloud-ready appliance and machine learning platform wields the power of an in-memory, massively parallel processing database engine with embedded Spark. It also runs on market-leading IBM Big Data Servers and IBM FlashSystem 900 storage arrays enabling a high-performance system optimized for business insight as well as advanced operational and in-database analytics.

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3AG Systems

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The ad hoc promise In a world where businesses live or die on data, self-serve BI is the information super-food we’ve been waiting for. Or so the rhetoric around this popular tool would have us believe. Also known as data exploration, exploratory data analysis, data discovery and ad hoc reporting, self-serve BI has many names, but one big promise: to radically reduce the time organizations spend on data collection, analysis, and reporting.

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Nutanix

OCTOBER 4, 2018

The Nutanix AOS 5.8 release back in July 2018 unleashed many new security enhancements with a focus on encryption and identity management. We are excited to let you know that AOS 5.9 is here and available for you to download from the portal.

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Smarten

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Is Augmented Analytics Easy Enough for the Average Business User? Augmented Analytics benefits a business, its users and its customers, partners and stakeholders. The advantages of augmented analytics are as numerous, varied and unique as the organization itself but, no matter the industry or type of business, one of the greatest benefits of augmented analytics is the availability and access to sophisticated analytical techniques, algorithms and processes for the average business user – WI

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 5, 2018

IBM is launching a live, virtual conference around AI. Community Day: Artificial Intelligence on October 11 from 10 AM to 4 PM Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). It’s a one-day exploration of applied AI, the tools that can help you harness it, and coding tutorials.

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Rob Thomas, general manager of IBM Analytics, sat down with Dave Vellante in New York City on the eve of the 13 September taping of the Win with AI digital broadcast to talk about the evolution of big data and how clients can take the next leap forward into self-service analytics before using AI to grow their business.

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Sreesha Rao, senior manager of IT applications at Niagara Bottling and Seth Dobrin, CDO of IBM Analytics, spoke with Dave Vellante in NYC on the eve of the 13 September taping of the Win with AI digital broadcast about the company’s efforts to save on plastic use by optimizing the settings of its pallet wrappers, machines that wrap an entire pallet stacked with cases of bottles in multiple revolutions of stretch plastic.

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Nutanix

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

When I first started the daunting task of finding a summer internship, I was nervous about making the wrong decision and spending my summer making photocopies or going on coffee runs.

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