By Deirdre Mahon, VP Marketing The typical life cycle of your average data transaction or event in the midst of all your data assets goes something like this; it comes screaming in... eh rather, streaming in to your enterprise along with millions of other records building up to billions each… Read More »

by Mark Cusack, Chief Architect I was asked to write about how we connect and exchange data with other databases.  My first response was “Oh Mum, do I have to?”  My second response was to take a nap.  The problem with data movement is that it’s dull.  Records are of… Read More »

by Remi Bello of Dell.  Skilled at leveraging big piles of data for business value, banks have long been considered innovators for their use of analytics to tackle such critical banking functions as risk management, price discovery and fraud detection. However, things are different today. The piles of data are… Read More »

by Mark Cusack, Chief Architect, RainStor Jimmy Hill is a footballing legend in the UK.  His name is also used as the standard refrain when exclaiming disbelief in a particular notion.  So, for example, when prospects, customers or my wife try explain to me that Hadoop already does all of… Read More »

by Deirdre Mahon, VP Marketing In information-intensive industries such as Financial Services, Communications, Media, Retail and Utilities, Big Data management and analysis is an absolute must-have strategy this year. Yet CIOs everywhere are trying to figure out what to do about the staggering costs of how and where to store… Read More »

by Deirdre Mahon, VP Marketing, RainStor If you want to learn what data scientists and developers are thinking about Big Data, there’s probably no better venue than at the O’Reilly Strata conference, where the big thinkers tend to congregate. The results of a survey conducted by Dimensional Research and sponsored… Read More »

By John Bantleman, CEO As Big Data moves to the mainstream enterprise, one major theme has emerged and is driving the next generation of Big Data solutions; the need to extend beyond the batch limitations of MapReduce and deliver high performance (real-time) analytics. Hadoop is in effect moving from being… Read More »

I have been spending an increasing amount of time in NY over the last year as we have been hiring, opening offices, and engaging with an increasing number of customers and prospects. Having lived through the aftermath and mayhem of a Hurricane some 25 years ago in Texas, I (and… Read More »

By John Bantleman, CEO With the price of commodity hardware continuing to motion downward, it continues to surprise me when I talk to organizations that still offload their historical data to tape offline and inaccessible. I can only guess that it is driven by a mix of factors which include… Read More »