Cisco has rolled out a second release of its Tetration Analytics package with features such as a smaller footprint and a cloud service that will go a long way toward making the system alluring to more data center customers. Announced in June of last year, Cisco’s Tetration Analytics is a turnkey analytics package that gathers […]

Apache Eagle, originally developed at eBay, then donated to the Apache Software Foundation, fills a big data security niche that remains thinly populated, if not bare: It sniffs out possible security and performance issues with big data frameworks. To do so, Eagle uses other Apache open source components, such as Kafka, Spark, and Storm, to generate […]

Natural relationships between data contain a gold mine of insights for business users. Unfortunately, traditional databases have long stored data in ways that break these relationships, hiding what could be valuable insight. Although databases that focus on the relational aspect of data analytics abound, few are as effective at revealing the hidden valuable insights as […]