August 24, 2022 Intern Summer Snapshot #4 Written By: Madeline Heath, Marketing Intern The fourth week of August signals the final week of our 2022 summer internship session. Our interns have spent the last 11 weeks contributing in engineering, finance, technical course development, marketing, and people. For the fourth and final installment of our Intern Summer Series, we take an in-depth… Read More
August 18, 2022 Intern Summer Snapshot #3 With August in full swing, our 2022 summer internship is coming to a close. Our interns have spent the last 10 weeks contributing to different teams throughout Actian. For the third installment of our Intern Summer Series, we take an in depth look at what our interns, Madeline Heath and Gabrielle Kray, have been… Read More
August 4, 2022 Intern Summer Snapshot – #1 The first week of August kicks off our Intern Summer Series! For the month of August, we will share a weekly post about our interns, their insights into the 12-week virtual program, and how their internship has helped develop professional skills. First up, we have our wonderful Cloud Operations Analyst Intern, Henry McKinney, and… Read More
July 28, 2022 Introducing Our 2022 Interns! It’s National Intern Day, which means it’s time to talk about Actian’s Summer Internship Program! Since launching this 12-week program in 2020, Actian’s internships have been centralized around intern capstone projects, engaging virtual events, all while being fully remote – this year however, they were able to add the exciting addition of a hybrid-remote… Read More
April 7, 2021 Getting to Know Actian CEO Lewis Black Lewis Black joined Actian in November 2018 as CFO, moving into the CEO position this past fall. He's worked in tech for more than three decades for an assortment of leading telecommunications and software companies, including AT&T, Lucent, Avaya, Citrix, Nexmo, and Vonage. As Lewis closes in on his six-month anniversary as CEO, we… Read More
August 27, 2019 Actian Datacast: Are you leveraging the right data for the right decision-making? Last week we announced the findings of the Actian Datacast 2019: Hybrid Data Trends Snapshot, sharing insights into the current challenges as well as opportunities for data-driven enterprises around managing hybrid data environments. Our survey polled 303 IT professionals with influence and or decision-making ability at their companies of 500+ employees. As the first… Read More
December 5, 2017 Jana Whitcomb Joins as VP, Channel Partnerships & Business Development I am excited to be at Actian and working with a Bay Area company again to help build our partner and business development organization! While driving the 101 (with all its crazy traffic), I'm reminded of my first job out of college – sales at Otis Elevator. Yes, people actually sell elevators – I… Read More
August 18, 2017 The essential guide to Gartner Catalyst 2017 in San Diego, CA If you’re headed to Gartner Catalyst 2017 in San Diego, CA August 21 – 24, or if this is your first time at a Gartner event, here’s your essential guide to get the most out of the upcoming conference. We hope you find it useful. This is a conference for technical professionals. You’ll have… Read More
August 8, 2017 Can Your Applications Find You? One important trend in database management is integrating location data better to improve insights about events and activities that matter to your business. …Interest in analyzing geospatial/location data has increased over the past four years from 26% to 36%.” Source: Gartner Survey Analysis: Big Data Investments Begin Tapering in 2016, September 2016 Tracking customer… Read More
June 20, 2017 Four Tips to Accelerate your ServiceNow integration using Actian PointConnect Deploying new applications is a fact of life in business. But oftentimes, a seemingly simple integration can quickly become more complex and costly than anticipated. If you are one of the thousands of organizations planning to use, or already using, ServiceNow, you’ll want to keep in mind a few things to make your investment… Read More
May 30, 2017 Predictions for the hybrid data landscape The Age of Data has arrived, with new data sources, targets and processing models proliferating madly across enterprises of all sizes. While data has never been more valuable to a business — it now informs the who, what, where, when and how of decision making — this new hybrid data landscape introduces new challenges.… Read More
April 27, 2017 Introducing Actian X – the new Ingres Last week, Actian introduced the the new Ingres - Actian X Hybrid Database, combining the industry-leading Ingres RBMS with the record breaking analytic database Vector. With column-based storage, vector processing, multi-core parallelism (and more), Actian X puts amazing performance in the hands of Ingres developers. We've also bundled two other really big features: 1)… Read More
April 26, 2017 HTAP at Actian: The Best of Both Worlds in Data Management One of the most exciting trends for the balance of this decade will be HTAP, or Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing - a recently-coined term representing the next generation of hybrid, converged software infrastructure that can handle both traditional Transactional Data Management AND modern Analytic Data Management workloads. Every business is struggling to find new tools… Read More
April 19, 2017 Hybrid Data is a Gamechanger Imagine this scenario - you have just "clicked" on an item that you are ordering online. What kind of "data trail" have you generated? Well, you are sure to have generated a transaction - the kind of "business event" that goes into a seller's accounting system, and then on to their data warehouse for subsequent sales… Read More
June 20, 2016 Performance Troubleshooting Tips for Actian Vector in Hadoop Actian Vector and Vector in Hadoop are powerful tools for running queries efficiently. However, most users of data analytics platforms seek to find ways to optimize performance to gain incremental query improvements. The Actian Service and Support team works with our customers to identify common areas that should be investigated when trying to improve… Read More
April 28, 2016 Actian Developer Tools available on Github The Actian technology teams have recently posted a number of technical tools and snippets to the Actian account on Github that will be of interest to customers, partners and prospects. We encourage all of you to take a look and make contributions of your own – either to enhance these tools, or else to… Read More
April 27, 2016 Hadoop at 10 Wow – 10 years of Hadoop, what a ride. Actian has been working in the Hadoop ecosystem almost since the beginning, starting in 2007. Actian started working with Hortonworks the moment they launched in 2011. As a pioneer in this space, we have witnessed the whole “boom”. And while Hadoop is continuing to show… Read More
April 14, 2016 Analytics Cube and Beyond Big Data engineering has invented a seemingly endless supply of workaround solutions. These are for both scalability and performance problems. Ultimately, our approach to solving these problems dictates how sustainable they will be. This post compares some modern best practices with pre-processing cube environments. 3 Ways A Hadoop Database Competes With Cube Analytics Software… Read More
September 2, 2014 Never underestimate the importance of good data quality One of the things I talk to organizations about regularly when they’re trying to get their heads around big data and analytics is the importance of data quality before they start with analytics. Here, I am reminded of the old database acronym of GIGO (garbage in, garbage out), and yet I am astounded by… Read More
August 22, 2019 Actian Datacast IT Decision-Maker Survey We have just announced the findings of the Actian Datacast Hybrid Data Trends Survey which offers new insights into the current challenges and opportunities for data-driven organizations when it comes to managing hybrid data environments. The survey polled 303 IT professionals who have some influence or decision-making ability and work in a company with… Read More
October 16, 2017 The essential guide to Actian Hybrid Data Conference 2017 in London, UK You are cordially invited to Actian’s Hybrid Data Conference in central London, UK on November 9th, 2017. Unlike many tech conferences, this one is totally free, and is open to Actian Customers, Partners, and the broader Tech Community alike. Bring a friend, or bring a few friends, this is a great technology community networking… Read More
September 5, 2014 An Analytical Mind: A Smart Interview with Peter Boncz on Vector Processing Known as the Father of Vector Database Processing, Peter Boncz is the Senior Research Scientist at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Professor at VU University Amsterdam, and Chief Technical Advisor to Actian Corporation, the first company to assemble an end-to-end big data analytics platform that runs natively on Hadoop. He architected two breakthrough database… Read More
