The Mid Week News - 25/04/2018 edit  

It’s another slow news week - is everyone on holiday of something? Read on for what we have…

Technology updates (details are on the relevant technology pages):

Other technology news:

  • Hortonworks has formally announced Data Steward Studio for Hortonworks DataPlane, although it’s been in tech preview for a while - Datanami; The Register
  • The Register also has a longer look at Hortonworks and where it’s going - link
  • And again from The Register, thoughts on Scality, it’s new funding round for doing multi-cloud storage via Zenko - link
  • From Datanami - Presto looks like it’s catching on - link
  • Again from Datanami - apparently a Teradata survey says that cloud analytics engines are falling short - link
  • From ZDNet, is PostgreSQL about to have it’s day - link