SAP readies bevy of HANA Cloud Services
The enterprise software giant brings SAP HANA Cloud and SAP Data Warehouse Cloud to GA.
The enterprise software giant brings SAP HANA Cloud and SAP Data Warehouse Cloud to GA.
The data industry, even in its renewed form, has matured. It's moved on from obsession with mere capabilities and is focused on success of implementation. The news out of last week's Strata Data conference in New York reflects the change.
The watershed release of CDP, on which investors and customers have been waiting like nervous parents, is launched. And it's much more than a merged version of the Cloudera CDH and Hortonworks HDP distributions.
The first Oracle Analytics for Applications service is here. The ERP analytics offering will eventually be joined by counterparts for human capital management, customer experience and supply chain management.
Dremio releases new technology for cloud data lakes. Can the company take data in relatively slow cloud object storage and make queries against it faster?
Google Cloud moves Spark as a service into the container and Kubernetes age, ditching virtual machine-based Hadoop clusters. Other non-Spark open source analytics engines will be supported in the future.
Data gravity and cloud war victory are intricately tied, and Microsoft's on the offense. In a tie-up with Informatica, Redmond's going after customers of on-premises data warehouse appliances. And on its own, it's building out its data lake infrastructure in a detailed fashion.
SAP uses its Enterprise software heritage, buying power and guile to offer a highly-competitive data and analytics platform. Part of SAP's analytics approach is respecting the power of classic technology, even as it continually modernizes its platform.
Alluxio, based on the original AMPLab Tachyon project, wants you to use its in-memory file system construct for fast data access, sharing of data between compute frameworks, and intelligent negotiation of data movement between clouds. Its new policy-driven data orchestration, and its AWS and Starburst Presto integrations, sweeten the deal.
Microsoft's database releases from 2008 and 2010 reach end of extended support. In response, Redmond says, that for many customers, the time for cloud migration has arrived.