DriveScale Customers Present Compelling Use Cases at Strata Data New York 2017

#Clearsense and #AppNexus to Discuss How D#riveScale 's Software Composable Infrastructure Enabled Move from AWS to On-Prem and Significant Decrease In Operations Workloads NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - Sep 18, 2017) - (STRATA DATA CONF) -- #DriveScale, the leader in delivering Software Composable Infrastructure ( #SCI) for modern workloads, today announced that Jimmy Hurff, CTO at Clearsense, a smart data organization that is re-imagining and simplifying data analytics to help healthcare organizations realize measurable value from their data, will speak at Strata Data Conference, taking place in New York City, September 25 - 28, 2017. In addition, DriveScale customer AppNexus, the world's leading independent advertising technology company, will appear on a live broadcast on theCUBE, Tuesday, September 26 at 4:00pm ET, also in New York. DriveScale, Clearsense and AppNexus will join industry leaders, strategists, architects, developers and analysts spanning some of the world's most successful startups and largest enterprise organizations for four days of deep dives into emerging techniques and technologies, case studies and in-depth tutorials at Strata Data NY. Formerly known as #Strata + #Hadoop World, Strata Data Conference is where cutting-edge science and new business fundamentals intersect and attendees can "imagine the future." Hurff will lead a Strata Data Conference Solutions Showcase talk focused on how #ComposableInfrastructure enabled Clearsense to move from #AWS public cloud to an on-premises private cloud environment. Attendees will learn how Clearsense was able to create the elastic on-prem infrastructure needed to run the Hadoop workloads it had in the public cloud, with higher performance and at a much lower cost. Ad tech giant AppNexus' platform serves billions of ads every day and needed a solution that would let the company scale its data center quickly and efficiently. Timothy Smith, SVP of Technical Operations at AppNexus, will discuss live on theCUBE how DriveScale's SCI technology helps his team significantly decrease operations workloads and reduce resources trapped in siloed clusters to meet its scalability and flexibility needs. Clearsense Solutions Showcase When: Wednesday, September 27 at 2:00pm - 2:10pm ET Who/What: Clearsense's CTO Jimmy Hurff will lead a Solutions Showcase session titled, "Composable Infrastructure Helps Clearsense Move From Public to Private Cloud" Topic: Clearsense CTO Jimmy Hurff will describe the challenges faced running the company's Hadoop cluster in the public cloud, and how DriveScale's Software Composable Infrastructure helped them move to a private infrastructure while saving significant costs and maintaining the cloud-like agility they were used to. Where: Solutions Showcase Theater; Strata Data NY; September 25-28, Javits Center, New York, NY AppNexus on theCUBE When: Tuesday, September 26 at 4:00pm ET Who/What: Tim Smith, AppNexus SVP of Technical Operations, will discuss how DriveScale helped his team reduce underutilized resources trapped in silos while easing operational workloads. Where: Live broadcast at Pillars37 in New York City on SiliconANGLE's theCUBE, the world's leading live interview show covering enterprise tech, innovation and the people who imagine, create and implement the technologies that are changing our world. Watch it live here. Meet DriveScale at Strata Data DriveScale's Software Composable Infrastructure can provide the most effective use of private cloud investments, while also providing the flexible provisioning capabilities that data center operators have become accustomed to with public cloud services. Stop by Booth #233 at Strata Data NY to meet DriveScale and learn more. About Clearsense Clearsense is a smart data organization based in Jacksonville, Florida that is re-imagining and simplifying data analytics to help healthcare organizations realize measurable value from their data. Our world-class team combines extensive data science expertise with clinical and operational heritage to deliver a solution that is cutting edge in design, but fully understanding of the unique needs of healthcare in its application. About AppNexus AppNexus is an internet technology company that enables and optimizes the real-time sale and purchase of digital advertising. Our powerful, real-time decisioning platform supports core products that enable publishers to maximize yield; and marketers and agencies to harness data and machine learning to deliver intelligent and customized campaigns. For more information, follow us at @AppNexus or visit us at appnexus.com About DriveScale DriveScale is the leader in Software Composable Infrastructure for modern workloads. Our innovative data center solution empowers IT to disaggregate compute and storage resources and quickly and easily recompose them to meet the needs of the business. Enterprises can respond faster to changing application environments, maximize the efficiency of their assets, and save on equipment and operating expenses. #DriveScale supports modern workloads such as #Hadoop, #Spark, #Kafka, #NoSQL, #Cassandra, #Docker, #Kubernetes and other distributed applications at a fraction of the cost of alternative platforms. DriveScale, based in Sunnyvale, CA, is founded by technologists with deep roots in IT architecture that built enterprise-class systems for Cisco and Sun Microsystems. Investors include Pelion Venture Partners, Nautilus Venture Partners and Ingrasys, a wholly owned subsidiary of Foxconn. Visit www.drivescale.com or follow us on Twitter at @DriveScale_Inc.
http://m.marketwired.com/press-release/drivescale-customers-present-compelling-use-cases-at-strata-data-new-york-2017-2233930.htm

Strata: Cloudera, MapR and others focus on consolidating the sprawl

When #Strata + #Hadoop World comes around in the US, once a year in New York and once a year, as it is now, in San Jose, CA, it's a bit of a news feeding frenzy. I'm not even at the event; I was merely pre-briefed by four vendors, last week and yesterday, with announcements they're making this morning. And still, it's a lot. #Cloudera told me about its new Data Science Workbench and Pentaho told me about what it's doing with data science. #MapR briefed me on their edge computing product, MapR Edge. And new player Iguazio told me how it's built a continuous data platform that unites most processes of the data lifecycle, in parallel and in near real-time.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/theme-at-strata-from-cloudera-mapr-and-others-get-it-together/

8 New Products You’ll See At Strata + Hadoop World

In two weeks, big data enthusiasts from around the world will converge on San Jose for the semi-annual #Strata + #Hadoop World conference. Existing products like #Spark and #Kafka are destined to be the stars of the show, while new technologies like #Hoodie and #Sparklyr aim to gain traction. Here are eight new big data products that will be presented at Strata + Hadoop World that you that

https://www.datanami.com/2017/02/28/8-new-products-youll-see-strata-hadoop-world/

Security analytics platform now an Apache open source project

Infosec pros have been hoping for some time that big data and analytics can be harnessed to improve cyber security. A fledgling open source project with genes from Intel and #Cloudera is another step in that direction. Originally called the Open Network Insight project for analyzing flow and packet data, the two companies have donated their work to the #Apache foundation incubator, where it is now called Apache #Spot. The move was announced last week at #Strata + #Hadoop World.

http://www.itworldcanada.com/article/security-analytics-platform-now-an-apache-open-source-project/386925

SAP Aims to Deliver Big Data as a White Glove Service

When it comes to data, #SAP has been pursuing a dual strategy. On the one hand, SAP is driving adoption of in-memory computing using the #HANA database to enable both faster transactions and real-time analytics. The other half of the strategy is anchored by SAP HANA #Vora, an instance of #Apache #Hadoop and #Spark that SAP deploys to create a data lake. This week at the #Strata + Hadoop conference, SAP announced it is bolstering its data lake strategy by acquiring #Altiscale, a provider of a managed cloud service based on Hadoop and the Spark in-memory computing framework. Mike Eacrett, vice president of product development for #BigData at SAP, says SAP is adding what amounts to a “white glove service” for deploying Hadoop and Spark. Many IT organizations don’t have the skills required to deploy Hadoop and Spark on their own. SAP will continue to give customers the option of deploying Hadoop and Spark as implemented by Altiscale or deploying the SAP HANA Vora implementation as a service on the Altiscale cloud. But there will be no requirement to use HANA in order to subscribe to the Altiscale service. Eacrett says the customers most interested will be organizations trying to operationalize Big Data within the context of an overall business process strategy that employs Big Data analytics to make better informed decisions. “Organizations want to be able to use Big Data to drive repeatable processes,” says Eacrett.

http://mobile.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/it-unmasked/sap-aims-to-deliver-big-data-as-a-white-glove-service.html

Hortonworks Tightens Focus on the Cloud with Connected Data Architecture

SANTA CLARA, Calif., and NEW YORK, Sept. 27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- #Hortonworks, Inc. ® (HDP), a leading innovator of open and connected data platforms, will showcase its latest technology solutions for streaming analytics, security, governance, and #Apache #Spark at scale at #Strata + #Hadoop World. As customers increasingly look to deploy cloud-based solutions, #Hortonworks' connected data architectures and mission-critical security, governance, and data access innovations provide unparalleled integration across multiple clouds and the data center.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/hortonworks-tightens-focus-cloud-connected-130000271.html

Zoomdata and Cloudera Deliver Fastest Big Data Analytics for 360 Degree Customer Insight

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - Sep 26, 2016) - #Strata + #Hadoop World -- #Zoomdata, developers of the world's fastest visual analytics platform for big data, today announced a partnership to deliver a Customer Insights Solution with Cloudera, the global provider of the fastest, easiest, and most secure data management and analytics platform built on #Apache #Hadoop and the latest open source technologies. The Customer Insights Solution combines the visual analytics of Zoomdata with the power of Cloudera Enterprise as an Analytic Database to provide an optimally configured and high performance solution for businesses to better understand the needs of even the largest customer bases. Markerstudy, a fast-growing provider of specialized auto insurance in the U.K., sells through thousands of agents and brokers, who request tens of millions of customized price quotes daily. The quotes must be customized because of widely diverse risk factors, demographics, and coverage needs. Using the customized combination of Cloudera and Zoomdata, the company quickly deployed a system to more effectively analyze customer buying behavior. "We can now analyze billions of quote transactions in seconds -- instead of processing only a small subset over a seven-hour period," said Nick Turner, enterprise data architect, Markerstudy. "The time savings lets us respond almost instantly to quote requests, resulting in greater sales and enhanced service to both customers and agents. We've also reduced claims costs by £5-million (USD$7.1-million) thanks to enhanced fraud detection. And because we better understand our customers and can provide instant, accurate pricing, customer cancellation rates have been cut in half." "Most companies aspire to have a 360º view of their customers, but fail," said Nick Halsey, chief marketing officer of Zoomdata. "Now with Zoomdata and Cloudera every company has the opportunity, with the Customer Insights Solution, to achieve significant business benefits. And partners can quickly customize this solution for their clients." "With the extensibility and programmability of Zoomdata, we can customize the Customer Insight Solution to meet the specific needs of each client," said Chandra Ambadipudi, founder and chief executive officer at Clairvoyant LLC, a leading technology consulting and services company with presence in North America and Asia. "The more our clients know about their customers, the better they can serve them." The Customer Insights Solution is available now, and will be showcased at Strata+Hadoop World, New York City at 6:00pm, Tuesday, September 27 at the Cloudera booth #721. Visitors can also see the solution throughout the show at the Zoomdata booth #332. Visit Zoomdata Customer Insights to learn more. Zoomdata is an open platform that provides visual analytics solutions for big data. Natively architected for both cloud and on-premises deployments, its microservices architecture delivers visual analysis of big datasets in seconds. Zoomdata's patented Data Sharpening™ technology delivers the industry's fastest visual analytics for real-time streaming and historical data. Zoomdata's streaming architecture makes this possible by using Apache Spark as a complementary high performance engine. Zoomdata Fusion enables users to perform analytics across disparate data sources in a single view -- without the need to move or transform data. About Zoomdata, Inc. Zoomdata, with five granted patents and one pending, develops the world's fastest visual analytics solution for big data. Using data sharpening and micro-query technologies, Zoomdata empowers business users to visually consume data in seconds, even across billions of rows of data. Zoomdata Fusion enables interactive analytics across disparate data sources, bridging modern and legacy data architectures, blending real-time streams and historical data, and unifying enterprise data with data in the cloud. Delivered in a microservices architecture for elastic scalability, Zoomdata runs on premises, in the cloud or embedded in an application. With offices in Chicago, IL, New York, NY, Redwood City, CA and Reston, VA, Zoomdata is venture-backed by Accel, Columbus Nova Technology Partners, Comcast Ventures, Goldman Sachs, In-Q-Tel, NEA and Razor's Edge.

http://m.marketwired.com/press-release/zoomdata-cloudera-deliver-fastest-big-data-analytics-360-degree-customer-insight-2161327.htm

Findings From New Data Management Benchmark Study to Be Presented at Strata + Hadoop World 2016 New York

WELLESLEY HILLS, MA--(Marketwired - September 22, 2016) - ( #Bigdata) #RedPointGlobal, a leading provider of data management and customer engagement technology, today announced it will host a session to discuss a new benchmark study conducted by information management leader MCG Global Services. The session will be presented at #Strata + #HadoopWorld 2016 New York on Sept. 28. Jake Dolezal, practice lead at McKnight Consulting Group Global Services, will share his latest research into the performance of data quality and data management workloads on #Hadoop clusters. The session will discuss a #YARN -based approach to data management and outline highly effective IT resource utilization techniques to achieve extreme agility for organizations and performance gains in Hadoop. RedPoint Global will also be exhibiting at this year's show Sept. 27-29 at booth #415.

http://m.marketwired.com/press-release/findings-from-new-data-management-benchmark-study-be-presented-strata-hadoop-world-2016-2160808.htm

Rocana Demonstrates the Power of Total Operational Visibility at Strata + Hadoop World NYC 2016

Delivering differentiated customer experiences requires an unfettered, real-time view of activity across all systems and dimensions to gain better context for decision making. Digital leaders understand this, and they thrive on it. Yet most organizations monitor less than 10 percent of their event data, meaning the vast majority of data is lost before it has a chance to impact the business. The story told by a fraction of the data is dramatically different than the story told by observing the complete picture. At #Strata + #Hadoop World 2016, Rocana will demonstrate how untapped stores of operational data can help give businesses the full context to maximize customer experiences and better compete with digital natives: Stop by and find out why "Context is Everything" at the Rocana booth, located at K3 of the Cloudera Partner Pavilion. Joey Echeverria, Platform Technical Lead at Rocana, will deliver a lightning talk "When it Comes to Customer Experience, Context is Everything" on Tuesday, September 27 at 5:45 p.m. at the Solutions Showcase Theater. Kevin O'Dell, Senior Sales Engineer will be signing his new book "Architecting #HBase Applications" at #Cloudera 's booth #721 on Wednesday, September 28 at 1:10 p.m.; and later that day at the O'Reilly Media booth #239 at 3:35 p.m. About Rocana Rocana gives technology leaders total operational visibility, eliminating the boundaries of legacy IT monitoring and empowering technologists to lead digital transformation. Rocana Ops captures and analyzes all data from all sources, keeping it online and available for instant and future access. By combining event data warehouse capabilities with advanced machine learning, Rocana Ops gives technologists the ability to see emerging issues anywhere in the environment, minimize security risks, and surface opportunities for innovation. Rocana was founded by big data veterans and is backed by proven digital leaders like #GoogleVentures (GV), Vinny Smith ( #QuestSoftware and #TobaCapital), Paul Sagan ( #Akamai ), Brian Smith ( #Google ), and General Catalyst.

http://news.sys-con.com/node/3919100

Neo Technology And Monsanto To Co-Present At Strata + Hadoop World 2016 In New York

Joint Session Will Demonstrate How to Use Graph Databases to Conduct Real-Time Graph Analysis of Company Data SAN MATEO, CA--(Marketwired - Sep 21, 2016) - #NeoTechnology, creator of #Neo4j, the world's leading graph database, announced today that its founder and CEO, Emil Eifrem, will speak at #Strata #Hadoop World, taking place September 26-29, 2016 in New York City. Eifrem will be joined onstage by Tim Williamson, data scientist at #Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON), to discuss how organizations use graph databases to operationalize insights from big data. Strata Hadoop World is the largest conference of its kind, a deep-immersion event where data scientists, innovators and executives get up to speed on emerging techniques and technologies.

http://www.gurufocus.com/news/444883/neo-technology-and-monsanto-to-copresent-at-strata--hadoop-world-2016-in-new-york

Automate and Accelerate Big Data Initiatives with BMC at Strata + Hadoop World New York

HOUSTON, Sept. 21, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- BMC is showcasing solutions to optimize and automate #BigData initiatives for #Hadoop environments at O'Reilly Strata + Hadoop World, September 27-29 at the Javits Center in New York City. As enterprises fast track Big Data initiatives to support their digital business strategies, BMC is enabling its customers to quickly gain a competitive advantage from new business insights secured from Hadoop data. WHO: BMC, the global leader in IT solutions for the digital enterprise. WHAT: BMC's solutions for Hadoop deliver consistent business value from Big Data initiatives by driving to production faster, integrating applications seamlessly, and continuously improving services. The company's booth at #Strata + Hadoop World New York will have experts on hand to demonstrate BMC's Control-M for Hadoop and Control-M Workload Change Manager solutions for workload automation for Hadoop jobs and workflows. Attendees can learn more about BMC's TrueSight Intelligence solution for analyzing high volumes of operational data, and go hands-on with BMC's TrueSight Capacity Optimization solution to plan, manage, and optimize the use of Hadoop infrastructure. For further information on agile application adoption, BMC's Joe Goldberg, principal solutions marketing manager, BMC will host a session titled, "Accelerate EDW modernization with the Hadoop ecosystem." The session will examine how achieving the best results in Big Data initiatives often means combining new and traditional data sources and modernizing ETL and data warehouse applications, which can experience exponential growth in complexity when moving toward enterprise-grade implementations. Mr. Goldberg will explain why freeware isn't 'free' when it comes to managing Hadoop workflows for enterprise implementations, and provide examples how companies like GoPro, Produban, Navistar, and others have taken a platform approach to managing their workflows, and how they are achieving success in their data warehouse modernization projects.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/media-alert-automate-and-accelerate-big-data-initiatives-with-bmc-at-strata--hadoop-world-new-york-300331520.html

Galactic Exchange Closes Seed Financing Round for Its "Unreasonably Simple Clusters for Big Data"

MENLO PARK, CA--(Marketwired - August 29, 2016) - #GalacticExchange, Inc. today announced the closing of its seed financing round and also confirmed that the pre-release (beta) version of its flagship #ClusterGX™ product line would be available for general download at the end of September, to coincide with the O'Reilly #Strata + #Hadoop World event in New York. California based Galactic Exchange has been developing technology to hugely simplify the deployment of Hadoop / #Spark based infrastructures and associated analytics applications, both on-premise and in the cloud. "The open source software ecosystem surrounding #BigData is an impenetrable soup of complexity for most and so not surprisingly market forecasts show that services continue to demand the biggest percentage of all dollars spent," said Rob Mustarde, President & CEO of Galactic Exchange. "The enormous benefit that Big Data promises is closed to all but those with the most skilled and experienced IT staff, or those willing to pay large for outside help -- our vision is to change that." ClusterGX™ Community Edition will be free to download from the Galactic Exchange web site and will enable an organization to spin up Container virtualized Hadoop/Spark clusters in a matter of minutes with zero experience required. "There is an old adage often applied to beneficial but difficult tasks," continued Mustarde. "If it was easy, everyone would be doing it. We want to help make it easy and cost-effective so that everyone can do it -- they can have a Big Data strategy. Maybe they can implement this on their own, maybe they still need a little help or maybe they still need a lot of help -- but we believe our technology will facilitate everyone to aspire to a Big Data strategy that they would never have thought possible before they laid hands on ClusterGX™."

http://m.marketwired.com/press-release/galactic-exchange-closes-seed-financing-round-its-unreasonably-simple-clusters-big-data-2153934.htm

Cask Congratulates Apache Twill on Top-Level Project Status

PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwired - July 27, 2016) - #Cask (cask.co), the company that makes building and deploying big data applications easy, congratulates the #Apache Software Foundation ( #ASF ) for its graduation of Apache #Twill to a Top Level Project (TLP). (See press release dated July 27, 2016, "Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Twill™ as a Top-Level Project.") As the original Apache Twill developer, contributing the code to the ASF in 2013, Cask is proud to have supported the technical vision and collaboration of Apache Twill within the family of Apache projects, all the way to its graduation. Apache Twill (http://twill.apache.org/) is an abstraction over Apache #Hadoop ® #YARN that reduces the complexity of developing distributed Hadoop applications, allowing developers to focus more on their application logic. Twill provides rich built-in features for common distributed applications for development, deployment, and management, greatly easing Hadoop cluster operation and administration. "It's exciting that Apache Twill is graduating to become an ASF Top-Level Project," said Jonathan Gray, Cask CEO. "We look forward to working further with the highly skilled and talented Apache Twill community, continually adding enhancements that benefit enterprises with distributed Hadoop application development needs and broadening support for other Apache projects. We're also excited for people to see Twill in action at several upcoming events, including JavaOne in San Francisco and #Strata + Hadoop World in New York."
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-ctera-platform-enhancements-simplify-cloud-migration-and-user-security-for-enterprise-file-services-and-data-protection-300304556.html

The 10 Coolest Big Data Products Of 2016 (So Far)

Sales of big data and business analytics applications, tools and services hit nearly $122 billion last year and will grow more than 50 percent to $187 billion in 2019, according to market researcher IDC. So it's no wonder that the conveyor belt of new big data products hitting the market, both from established companies and startups, continues unabated. Here are 10 big data products that caught our attention in the first half of 2016. Some – but not all – of these made their debut at the #Strata + #Hadoop World conference in March or the Hadoop Summit in June. #AWS #Apache, #BlueData
http://m.crn.com/slide-shows/applications-os/300081349/the-10-coolest-big-data-products-of-2016-so-far.htm/pgno/0/3

Strata + Hadoop World, happening September 26-29 (Register with code for 20% discount)

There's no conference quite like #Strata + #Hadoop World. Just a few days among the best minds in data can entirely change the way you think about data—and can provide tips and techniques that can save you hours of time. Find out why one attendee said "I learned more about big data in just three days attending Strata + Hadoop World than in one year doing research on my own."

Get in-depth training and sessions from the best minds in the industry in topics such as: data-driven business, enterprise adoption, IoT & real-time, fintech, data case studies, and more. Make invaluable connections through the legendary networking opportunities, and see the latest in the thriving vendor ecosystem.

Strata + Hadoop World sold out last year with over 6,300 attending. Make your plans now.Register with code PCCTOV and save 20% on conference passes (does not apply to training packages).

http://news.sys-con.com/node/3874443

Hadoop innovation slowdown forces vendors to focus on data strategy

Analysis: While technologies like #Spark continue to interest the maturity of the big data space means the messaging must change.

Businesses have now entered an era where data is vital to success, where differentiating on how they use data could be the path to the top of the market and where failure to do so, could see the demise of the business all-together.

Big data's impact on businesses has resulted in the creation of new C-level roles and posed the challenge of developing skills to be able to keep up with the demand for data analytic processing and the tools that have swamped the market.

While conferences are typically swamped with updates, enhancements, and the odd new product, the #Strata & #Hadoop Conference in London recently had a greater focus on strategy than it did technology.

To focus on data strategy is a sensible place for many of the tech vendors in the Hadoop ecosystem to go, after all, making money from consultancy style services would add another source of revenue in addition to the software, training and certification revenues which they already receive.

In the build up to the event, CBR talked to several vendors that have significant plays in Hadoop - Cloudera, Informatica, Trifacta, Hortonworks, and Cray. While all to some extent had their own product upgrades or new releases recently available, the theme of the conversations was predominantly around strategy.

Having an effective data strategy is clearly extremely important, without one a business is likely to fail in their strategy and with new regulatory requirements such as EU General Data Protection Regulation on the horizon, now seems to be an extremely apt time for vendors to be advising on how to get strategy right.

Clarke Patterson, senior director, product marketing, Cloudera told CBR that over the next several months the company would be talking more about a "journey to success" by helping businesses understand the people, process, and technology.

Patterson said: "I need to kind of peel apart the layers and understand which projects within It I am specifically going to attack first, which projects within Hadoop specifically I should be thinking about and then applying those to different departments and different strategic initiatives within the business."

This will help a business to figure out what businesses processes should be dealt with first, addressing whether there is a skills gap, and figuring out how to remedy that.

Patterson admitted that it isn't really a ground breaking concept but that the company had received a lot of feedback from customers about the difficulties posed by jumping in too deep with Hadoop.

Mixed in with this messaging is the placement of Cloudera's technology as an integral component, something that is mirrored by all the vendors I spoke to.

Informatica mirrored much of what Cloudera said, identifying the importance of people in addition to process and technology.

http://www.cbronline.com/news/big-data/platforms/hadoop-innovation-slowdown-forces-vendors-to-focus-on-data-strategy-4921297

Strata + Hadoop World 26-29 Sep: Register With 20% Discount

#Strata + #Hadoop World, happening September 26-29 is where cutting-edge science and new business fundamentals intersect—and merge. It's a deep dive into emerging techniques and technologies. You'll dissect case studies, develop new skills through in-depth tutorials, share emerging best practices in data science, and imagine the future. Save 20% with discount code PCCTOV. Check out the impressive agenda and speaker lineup.

http://news.sys-con.com/node/3842178

Galactic Exchange Delivers ClusterGX Full-Service, for On-Premise Managed Big Data

MENLO PARK, CA -#Strata + #Hadoop World, London  #GalacticExchange, Inc. today announced the availability of its #Docker container powered clustering technology ( #ClusterGX ™) as an on-premise managed service solution (ClusterGX™ Full-Service) for customers deploying Hadoop/#Spark Big Data applications.

Unlike any other on-premise Big Data solution, ClusterGX™ uniquely operates using master nodes for Hadoop, Spark and Impala running inside a cloud service managed and maintained by Galactic Exchange. Businesses can now deploy ClusterGX™ on-premise without the complexity of allocating, configuring and maintaining separate dedicated hardware to support the critical master node functions.

Despite the success of cloud offerings such as AWS, Big Data managed services offered entirely in the cloud are not the preferred option for many organizations. Either because of legal restrictions, sheer volumes of data generated, security concerns or other reasons many businesses choose to keep their data on premise where the opportunity for a true managed service, until now, has essentially not been an option.

http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwgeeks/article/Galactic-Exchange-Delivers-ClusterGX-Full-Service-for-On-Premise-Managed-Big-Data-20160531