'D' of Things

Logo courtesy of Altiscale Let me just say right off the bat that I consider Altiscale to be a really nice alternative for the provisioning of Big Data services such as Hortonworks , Cloudera or MapR . The Palo Alto, California–based company offers a full Big Data platform based in the cloud via the Altiscale Data Cloud offering. In my view, Altiscale has dramatically increased the appeal of its portfolio with the launch of the Altiscale Insight Cloud and a partnership with Tableau , which will bring enhanced versatility and power to Altiscale’s set of services for Big Data. The new Altiscale Insight Cloud On March 15th, Altiscale released its new Altiscale Insight Cloud solution. In the words of Altiscale, this is a “ self-service analytics solution for Big Data .” Altiscale Insight Cloud aims to equip business analysts and information workers with the necessary tools for querying, analyzing, and getting answers from Big Data repositories using the tools that they are f