Big Data, Big Impact
The volumes of data being collected by businesses and organizations is growing exponentially and that data is increasingly scattered across on-premises, cloud, hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud systems. The result: Managing, accessing and utilizing all that data is an increasingly complex task.
IT vendors, both startups and established players, are developing the next generation of platforms and tools for managing big data and making it accessible to analysts and information workers.
Here are 10 big data platform and tool offerings that caught our attention in 2020.
Some of the featured products are new cloud Database-as-a-Service platforms and related software. That’s no surprise: In a July 1 report market researcher Gartner said that by 2022, 75 percent of all databases will be deployed or migrated to a cloud platform, largely for databases used for business analytics and for Software-as-a-Service applications.
