Metadata is “data about data.”1 There are two metadata types: structural metadata, about the design and specification of data structures or “data about the containers of data;” and descriptive metadata about individual instances of application data or the data content.
Continues to add the latest technologies and data sources to deliver the most comprehensive self-service Big Data offering.
March 19, 2015
Qubole has announced that the Qubole Data Service (QDS) platform now includes a connector to Amazon Redshift, further extending the data sources available directly within QDS.
New study by The Economist Intelligence Unit shows top executives believe new Big Data platforms will revolutionize the way businesses operate.
March 12, 2015
Platfora has announced a study by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) that explores, in detail, the beliefs, priorities, and opinions on big data analytics by 395 C-level executives at Fortune 2000 companies.
Mountain Point will act as salesforce/Rootstock manufacturing ERP implementation partner.
March 3, 2015
Rootstock Software® has announced that Mountain Point, a Registered Salesforce Consulting Partner, has been chosen to help Rootstock customers to dramatically reduce integration time to unlock and modernize their back-office system with Rootstock's manufacturing, supply chain and distribution ERP on the Salesforce platform.
The company was named one of the most innovative Big Data companies.
March 3, 2015
Splunk Inc. has announced that Emilio Umeoka has been named to the list of the 2015 CRN Channel Chiefs while the company is recognized by CRN as one of The 20 Coolest Cloud Software Vendors of 2015.
Former LogMeIn execs Les Yetton and Chad Jones to help drive growth of database startup.
February 25, 2015
Deep Information Sciences has announced that industry veterans Les Yetton and Chad Jones have joined as chief executive officer and chief strategy officer, respectively.
Steve Hebert will present the Nimbix Cloud Platform during AlwaysOn's Top Company Showcase.
February 24, 2015
Nimbix has announced that company CEO Steve Hebert will present the company's cloud platform, JARVICE, at the OnCloud 2015 event on February 26 at College of San Mateo, Silicon Valley.
NoSQL leader delivers Apache Storm, Kafka, and Sqoop product integration with Hortonworks.
February 19, 2015
Couchbase, Inc. has announced new product integrations into the Hadoop ecosystem that make it easier for enterprises to build and deploy modern data architectures.