January 13, 2016

Go Comes to the Mainframe

January 13, 2016 8:01 pm

IBM has announced that its z Systems mainframe platform now supports Go, an open source programming language from Google. “We ported Go to z Systems as part of our overall effort to expand the platform’s open source ecosystem,” said Marcel Mitran, Distinguished Engineer and CTO for IBM LinuxOne. “We continue

Comparing Analytics Platforms: Azure vs. AWS, Part 3

January 13, 2016 3:01 am

In the previous two posts (see Part 1?and Part 2), we compared the two most popular cloud platforms, Microsoft’s Azure and Amazon’s AWS for their offerings in the end-to-end ecosystem of data analytics, both large scale and real time. In this final post, will compare Azure’s Data Factory?and an equivalent