Source: 3 fundamental keys to digital transformation | CIO

How Baidu combined Tachyon with Spark SQL to increase speed 30-fold Source: Accelerating big data analytics workloads with Tachyon – O’Reilly Media

At one time, all-flash storage arrays were used for a single mission-critical application with a need for speed, usually in big IT shops. Now they’re poised to take over many more parts of IT Source: Flash is rocketing into big-data analytics | InfoWorld

Some in-memory data structures are more efficient than others; by tapping into Redis, Spark runs faster Source: Give Spark a 45x speed boost with Redis | InfoWorld

For data processing, Spark is catching fire. Here’s a look at the kindling fueling Spark’s big data appeal Source: 7 tools to fire up Spark’s big data engine | InfoWorld

A strategic investment round led by HPE just brought the startup $73.5 million in new funding Source: Microsoft and HPE throw their weight behind Mesosphere | InfoWorld

In a rousing keynote, Microsoft’s CEO introduces the Microsoft Bot Framework and several new Cognitive Services Source: Satya Nadella bets the future on AI | InfoWorld

When it comes to wrangling data at scale, R, Python, Scala, and Java have you covered — mostly Source: Which freaking big data programming language should I use? | InfoWorld