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A Big Data roundup from Strata + Hadoop World

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Databricks announces DataFrames for Spark
Apache Spark platform provider Databricks has announced DataFrames, a new API for Apache Spark 1.3 designed to simplify distributed data processing for more immediate Spark use.

The DataFrames API was built to resemble R and Python data frames, providing a familiar interface for data scientists and building on the Spark SQL query optimizer for code execution on machine clusters. DataFrames also enables access to third-party data sources, including NoSQL stores, and supports a variety of additional data sources with automatic computational optimization.

DataFrames will be incorporated into Spark 1.3 and released in early March.

Pentaho 5.3 released with Amazon and Red Hat integrations
Big Data analytics company Pentaho, set for acquisition by Hitachi, has announced the release of Pentaho Business Analytics 5.3, featuring integrations with Amazon Redshift and Cloudera Impala.

Pentaho Business Analytics 5.3 adds new governed data analytics through Pentaho’s data refinery and improved embedding with interactive reporting updates. The integrations with Amazon’s Redshift data warehousing solution for AWS and Cloudera’s Impala parallel-processing query engine widen the Big Data deployment options of Pentaho’s analytics service.

Pivotal open-source its entire Big Data Suite: Read more here.

HP unveils Haven Predictive Analytics leveraging R
HP rolled out Haven Predictive Analytics, an analytics service built on its Vertica analytics database and implementing the distributed R statistical programming language as an open-source analytics engine to run code against data sets. Haven Predictive Analytics is fully open source, and also includes native SQL support and out-of-the-box parallel algorithms.

Tableau Software launches Apache Spark SQL support connector
Data visualization company Tableau Software announced support for both Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark via a direct connector. Tableau support for in-memory Spark SQL data will allow direct Big Data visualizations through the Tableau interface.

Dato updates machine learning program with GraphLab Create
Dato, the machine learning startup formerly known as GraphLab, has updated its platform with an open-source version of the GraphLab Create distributed C++ computational framework. The release also adds predictive service deployment enhancements and a new Data Matching Toolkit for task automation to the platform.

Latest release of the MapR distribution including Hadoop enables the real-time, data-centric enterprise: Read more here.

IBM accelerates data science success for the enterprise: Read more here.

Altiscale announces updated, enterprise-class authentication security; Apache Spark on the Altiscale Data Cloud: Read more here.

RapidMiner makes self-service advanced analytics available for Hadoop; announces US$15 million in funding: Read more here.

Qubole adds Apache Spark to its Big Data-as-a-Service platform: Read more here.

BlueTalon announces breakthrough data access and security for Hadoop and $5 million in funding: Read more here.

Tamr Unveils Enterprise Platform for Scalable, End-to-End Data Unification; Announces Two Packaged Data-Unification Solutions for Business Analysts: Read more here.

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DBmaestro’s DevSecOps feature, JetBrains’ Kotlin 1.1, and Tableau 10.2—SD Times news digest: March 1, 2017

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DBmaestro is adding a DevSecOps comment to its DevOps solution. DevSecOps is a new philosophy that integrates security into the life cycle. According to the company, this maximizes risk management, threat prevention, flexibility, speed, and time to market. The Policy Control Manager is designed to eliminate risks, and reduce downtime and loss of data.

“DBmaestro allows enterprises to put an automated security policy in place to define and then automatically control who is authorized to make changes to the database, in which scenarios, and when, thus preventing unauthorized or malicious changes to the database,” said Yariv Tabac, cofounder and CEO of DMmaestro.

JetBrains releases Kotlin 1.1
JetBrains wants to enable the use of a single language across all components of a modern application, and with the release of Kotlin 1.1, the team is headed in that direction.  

In Kotlin 1.1, the JavaScript target is no longer experimental, and it supports all Kotlin language features. Also in this release, JetBrains introduced support for coroutines, which are lightweight alternatives to threads. JetBrains also added type aliases, bound callable references, destructing in lambdas, and several other features.

More information can be found here.

Oracle and Pluralsight bring more education to developers
Oracle and Pluralsight announced a new collaboration to bring cloud learning and enablement resources to developers. The collaboration will give developers access to three new Oracle learning pathways on the Pluralsight platform (Java Development, Oracle Cloud Node.js Development, and Oracle Cloud IaaS Foundations), as well as leverage two new Oracle Cloud courses (Oracle Cloud for Developers, and Oracle Compute Cloud Service Foundations).

“Pluralsight has built a rich community and library of content that help developers take their skills to the next level,” said Damien Carey, senior vice president of Oracle University. “By expanding Pluralsight’s offering with new Oracle courses, we are providing increased opportunity for developers to learn valuable new skills and techniques to keep up with the latest and ever-changing demands of the software development world.”

mLab announces encryption at rest
mLab, a fully-managed cloud database-as-a-service company, announced that its platform’s plans include encryption at rest, which is an opt-in data security measure that can help companies ensure that data security is a top priority.

“As the cloud services industry matures, many customers, especially enterprises, are developing programs to perform due diligence on their portfolio of service providers,” said Jared D. Cottrell, CTO of mLab. “Whether an industry regulation or best practice, encryption at rest is one of the most commonly requested security features. encryption at rest provides a layer of protection against unauthorized access to sensitive data, especially attacks directed at the physical devices on which the data is stored.”

More information on this security measure can be found here.

Tableau 10.2 released
Tableau Software is giving users new ways to see and understand data in its latest release of Tableau. Version 10.2 features advanced mapping capabilities, improved geospatial analysis, enhanced data prep, and new ways to combine and clean data.

“Enhancements in Tableau 10.2 make advanced analytics easier, faster and more scalable,” said Andrew Beers, Chief Development Officer of Tableau Software. “We’ve added new ways to leverage spatial data, prep data, and manage Tableau deployments in the enterprise. Visualizations are easier for people with disabilities to perceive and explore, making data accessible to everyone to increase business value and insights.”

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Tableau Software rolls out new analytics solutions on a subscription basis

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Tableau Software has announced new offerings that will allow organizations to scale their data analytics processes. It is releasing Tableau Prep as well as releasing new analytics solutions Tableau Creator, Tableau Explorer, and Tableau Viewer.

Tableau Prep serves as the company’s entry into the self-service data preparation market, according to Francois Ajenstat, chief product officer of Tableau Software. “Tableau Prep is really trying to change the game for how data preparation should be done where everything you do is visual. You see the data, you point and click, and immediately see how that data is transformed so that things that used to be hard to do or repetitive are now done with one click in Tableau Prep,” he said.

According to a recent survey from the Harvard Business Review, people spend 80 percent of their time preparing data, leaving only 20 percent of their time left for analysis. By simplifying the data preparation process, organizations will have more time to spend doing useful things with their data.

Tableau Prep is included as part of Tableau Creator, which is one of the three new subscription offerings. It is also available to Tableau Desktop users for free for the next two years.

The new subscription offerings, Tableau Creator, Tableau Explorer, and Tableau Viewer, offer varying levels of analytical capabilities, depending on an organization’s unique needs.

Tableau Creator provides full analytics capabilities, Tableau Explorer provides self-service analysis, and Tableau Viewer allows casual users to consume dashboards and visualizations of data that other have created. For example, Tableau Creator is designed for analysts and power users, while Tableau Viewer is designed for a casual user that does not have a data role, but works in a position where data will help them do their job, Ajenstat explained.

By offering these three solutions as subscriptions, organizations will be able to pick the product that fits their current needs, while still offering the ability to scale. They can start off with Tableau Explorer, but if they realize they need something more robust down the line, they can up their subscription to Tableau Creator.

In addition to offering the ability to scale, subscription models are typically cheaper and lower risk. If a product is not meeting needs, users can just turn off the subscription, whereas if they had bought a product outright they might have lost a lot of money, according to Ajenstat.

“With the unprecedented and accelerating growth of data that customers are experiencing, the need to see and understand data is more important than ever before. Professional analysts, teachers, doctors, project managers, marketers, sellers, developers, factory line workers, recruiters – everyone needs data to make better decisions. Organizations are facing the urgent need to empower their entire workforce to help drive more revenue, reduce costs, provide better service, increase productivity, discover the next scientific breakthrough and even save lives,” said Adam Selipsky, CEO at Tableau. “Our new offerings will help entire organizations make analytics ubiquitous, enabling them to tailor the capabilities required for every employee.”

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