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Microsoft veteran Bob Muglia: Relational knowledge graphs will transform business

'We're at the start of a whole new era' with knowledge graphs, says Microsoft veteran Bob Muglia, akin to the arrival of the modern data stack in 2013.

May 7, 2022 by Tiernan Ray

Volume, velocity, and variety: Understanding the three V's of big data

For those struggling to understand big data, there are three key concepts that can help: volume, velocity, and variety. These three vectors describe how big data is so very different from old school data management.

March 21, 2018 by David Gewirtz

Meet Estée Lauder's chief analytics officer: 'Data hoarding doesn't solve the problem'

The Estée Lauder Companies has created a chief analytics officer position as part of its senior leadership team. Learn about this important role and its impact on digital transformation efforts. From data science to culture, it's more complicated than you might think.

July 30, 2021 by Michael Krigsman

​Facebook to outline Lumos, its machine learning platform for images

Facebook is providing more details about its Lumos platform, which allows those without deep learning and computer vision training to use it.

February 2, 2017 by Larry Dignan

Descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics: How are they different?

Understanding the difference between descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics can set you on the right path to finding a viable and productive solution for your business—but beware of potential pitfalls.

June 3, 2019 by James Sanders

Pivotal Greenplum is alive and kicking

Greenplum is probably the best-kept secret in the analytic database world. While Pivotal was busily building its Cloud Foundry business, its Greenplum business has continued to thrive. The new release steps up the multi-workload capabilities that differentiate Greenplum. The next question is when will Pivotal launch a managed Greenplum cloud service?

September 14, 2017 by Tony Baer (dbInsight)

RDBMS vs. NoSQL: How do you pick?

An earnest argument for NoSQL...from an RDBMS veteran of IBM and Oracle.

September 18, 2013 by Andrew Brust

Azure HDInsight gets its own Hadoop distro, as big data matures

Microsoft's new home-brewed Hadoop distribution lets Azure HDInsight keep on truckin' in a post-Hortonworks big data world.

August 16, 2020 by Andrew Brust

Databricks introduces MLflow Model Registry, brings Delta Lake to Linux Foundation

The company founded by the creators of Apache Spark is working to elevate its newest innovations to open source standards.

October 16, 2019 by Andrew Brust

Machine learning at the edge: TinyML is getting big

Being able to deploy machine learning applications at the edge is the key to unlocking a multi-billion dollar market. TinyML is the art and science of producing machine learning models frugal enough to work at the edge, and it's seeing rapid growth.

June 7, 2021 by George Anadiotis