Contributor: Steve Swoyer
Stephen Swoyer is a technology writer with more than 16 years of experience. His writing has focused on business intelligence, data warehousing, and analytics for almost a decade. He’s particularly intrigued by the thorny people and process problems most BI and DW vendors almost never want to acknowledge, let alone talk about.
All articles by Steve Swoyer
Because Spark can run independently of Hadoop, some see the two as competitors. However, these technologies can complement each other depending on enterprise needs.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 22, 2016
Spark is a hot topic right now. So hot, in fact, it's surpassed Hadoop as the open source technology with the most widespread appeal. Whether it can sustain this momentum is another matter.
- By Steve Swoyer
- August 22, 2016
According to the experts at the Pacific Northwest BI Summit, data management must learn from the self-service revolution and respect business needs or risk a return to siloed data.
- By Steve Swoyer
- August 18, 2016
Microsoft's new Power BI Embedded service gets at a significant issue for data management professionals: anemic BI uptake, what we could call BI disuse.
- By Steve Swoyer
- August 17, 2016
The reallocation of IT spending from traditional on-premises to cloud resources will impact about $1 trillion in IT spending through 2020. We look at four key spending shifts.
- By Steve Swoyer
- August 16, 2016
Gartner's Merv Adrian dropped a bombshell last month, predicting that Hadoop as we know it may soon cease to exist.
- By Steve Swoyer
- August 15, 2016