Sean Michael Kerner

Serverless is an increasingly popular branch of cloud computing that can help organizations optimize their cloud costs and application delivery needs. Serverless, also referred to as Functions-as-a-Service, or event driven computing, is different than either virtual machine or regular container-based cloud computing options. With serverless, there is no need to have a long running server […]

Hybrid cloud integration is all about enabling the same workloads to run both on-premises and in the public cloud and across multiple cloud computing providers. The challenge of legacy IT stacks is that applications and workloads can become siloed and stuck in a specific location that isn’t easy migrated. With demand for high-availability and disaster […]

Application Programming Interfaces, commonly referred to as APIs, are the cornerstone of modern applications, enabling core features of complex software to be extended and integrated in many different ways. The cloud computing era has driven increased use of APIs, as has the adoption of Big Data. As APIs have become pervasive, the complexity of managing […]

See the full list of Top Big Data Analytics Tools Bottom Line: Cloudera is one of the premier vendors in the Big Data market today, and is widely considered a leader in the use of emerging data tool Hadoop.  It is this core Hadoop expertise and its full data analytics platform that sets Cloudera apart […]

See the full list of Top Big Data Analytics Tools Read user reviews of Microsoft Power BI Bottom Line: There are few (if any) Big Data platforms that are as well reviewed and well regarded as Microsoft’s BI. In recent years, Microsoft has extended Power BI to enable organizations to integrate Big Data use cases, […]

See the full list of Top Big Data Analytics Tools Bottom Line: Oracle has a lot of different technologies within its vast portfolio that can be used with Big Data, but it is the Analytics Cloud that is perhaps the best option for the widest variety of enterprise users. The Oracle Analytics Cloud packages all […]

See the full list of Top Big Data Analytics Tools Bottom Line: Pentaho was one of the earliest open source Business Intelligence technologies. Its strong legacy reputation has continued into the Big Data era under Hitachi, which acquired Pentaho in 2015. It is the strength of the large open source community that is one of […]

See the full list of Top Big Data Analytics Tools Bottom Line: SAS Institute, commonly referred to as SAS, has been in the data analytics business for 40 years, and over those decades has developed enormous expertise in the sector – an expertise clearly reflected in its Big Data analytics tools. SAS Visual Analytics is […]

See the full list of Top Big Data Analytics Tools Bottom Line: Sisense solves one of the most challenging problems that many organizations have when moving into the world of Big Data analytics: the issue of getting data ready for an analysis, of preparing the data. Sisene’s capabilities in Big Data analysis preparation is the […]

See the full list of Top Big Data Analytics Tools Read user reviews of Splunk Analytics for Hadoop Bottom Line: Splunk quite literally changed the way that many IT organizations look at log files. Its core namesake platform that enables companies of any size to make sense of their data is a well regarded industry leader. […]