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Vast Data Builds Out Data Platform With Block Storage And Kafka Streams

February 21, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

If you are going to be audacious enough to call the thing you are creating Universal Storage, then by definition it has to do everything – meaning support every kind of data format and access protocol, and do so with good performance on all fronts. …

Edge

Everybody Has Big Data – How To Cope With It

December 11, 2019 Simon Crosby 0

Enterprises are awash in data, and though many are tempted to save it all for later analysis – after all it worked for Google for many years – the store then analyze approach is poorly suited to environments with data sources that never stop. …

Control

Refreshing Approaches to Workflow Automation

April 5, 2018 James Cuff 0

Workflow automation has been born of necessity and has evolved an increasingly sophisticated set of tools to manage the growing complexity of the automation itself. …

AI

Weaving A Streaming Stack Like Twitter And Yahoo

March 6, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The hyperscalers of the world have to deal with dataset sizes – both streaming and at rest – and real-time processing requirements that put them into an entirely different class of computing. …

Compute

MapR Gives Single View Of Big Data

November 22, 2017 Jeffrey Burt 0

The enormous amount of data being generated will do companies little good if they can’t more easily gather it from multiple sources, store it, analyze it and gain important insights into it that will help them drive better business decisions. …

Enterprise

Kafka Wakes Up And Is Metamorphosed Into A Database

August 30, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

Sometimes a database is like a collection of wax tablets that you can stack and sort through to update, and these days, sometimes it is more like a river that has a shape defined by its geography but it is constantly changing and flowing and that flow, more than anything else, defines the information that drives the business. …

AI

Apache Kafka Gives Large-Scale Image Processing a Boost

March 13, 2017 Ben Cotton 0

The digital world is becoming ever more visual. From webcams and drones to closed-circuit television and high-resolution satellites, the number of images created on a daily basis is increasing and in many cases, these images need to be processed in real- or near-real-time. …

AI

Kafka Streaming Pulled Into Converged MapR Platform

December 8, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Time and again, commercial Hadoop distributor MapR Technologies has demonstrated the value of the MapR-FS file system that underpins its Hadoop stack and differentiates it, more than any other feature, from the other Hadoop platforms with which it competes. …

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