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TechTarget | June 20, 2017

IBM pulled the plug on its distribution of Hadoop in favor of reselling Hortonworks' bundle of big data technologies, a decision that reduces the number of Hadoop vendors to four.IBM is dropping its own Hadoop platform and adopting Hortonworks Inc.'s instead as part of a two-way deal that could give users of both companies increased access to enterprise-class capabilities for managing and analyzing big data....

TechTarget | June 07, 2017

Deploying big data systems is just the first step for IT and data management teams. The next big challenge is setting up systems and processes for governing data lakes.Data lakes evoke images of vast pools of raw data, available for unfettered exploration and analysis. But the reality isn't so free and easy: To avoid information chaos, all that data needs to be cataloged and governed -- and doing so is still a developing and very often do-it-yourself process....

TechTarget | June 07, 2017

Processing in big data systems can slow to a crawl if queries are not properly tuned or workloads not well balanced issues that call for careful monitoring of clusters.Data isn't the only thing that needs to be governed in big data systems. The queries run by data scientists and other users also have to be watched to make sure they don't bog down processing in Hadoop and Spark clusters.Hadoop performance problems became an issue at BT Group PLC after use of its data lake environment star...

tdworld.com | January 24, 2020

For many utilities, this world is not far off. For PECO Energy Co., a subsidiary of Exelon Corp., this world is here now as a result of the Exelon Utilities Analytics Academy. This program is aimed at enabling employees to adopt digital skills, such as machine learning, operational analytics, visual storytelling and automated analysis. This ensures the people who are most familiar with the meaning behind the data also can conduct their own analysis, rather than having to rely on a central group ...