Big Data/Analytics-as-a-Service

MapR unveils major data platform update for AI and analytics

Lack of data literacy hampers business and personal performance

Major global report reveals deficiency in data confidence is shackling success in a new era of robotics and automation.

Hortonworks expands Google and Microsoft Cloud partnerships

Hortonworks has introduced enhancements to its existing partnership with Google Cloud to further optimize Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) and Hortonworks DataFlow (HDF) for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to deliver next-gen big data analytics for hybrid cloud deployments. This partnership will enable customers to leverage new innovations from the open source community via HDP and HDF on GCP for faster business insights.

Enabling containerisation and Deep Learning workloads

Hortonworks has introduced Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) 3.0, which delivers significant new enterprise features including containerization for faster and easier deployment of applications, and increased developer productivity. The new version of HDP enables customers to more quickly, reliably and securely get value from their data at scale to drive business transformation.

Puppet acquires Reflect

Reflect to speed time to decision and action for Puppet customers, accelerating their journey to pervasive automation.

93 per cent of businesses cannot use analytics to predict individual customers’ needs

Lack of predictive analytics traps customers in vicious cycles based on their past selves.