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Xplenty's CEO Yaniv Mor gives an inside look at how to successfully overcome the challenges of running a remote startup team.

2017 is here, and we give you our 4 data related predictions for the year. They all revolve around the massive production and consumption of data

Xplenty, the data integration platform helping organizations make raw data “analytics-ready,” today announced it has received a $4 million Series A extension from Bain Capital Ventures, True Ventures and Rembrandt...

Why you need a Data Integration Layer (ETL), reasons to use a SaaS based tool for ETL rather than coding it through scripts.

In an interview with Datanami, Xplenty CEO Yaniv Mor explains the pitfalls of data hoarding and how to overcome it.

This post takes a look at how you can use Xplenty, a data integration tool, to create personalized data-driven marketing campaigns to increase your ROI.

May was a crazy month here at Xplenty. We started our event tour at Collision in Las Vegas. Then we headed over to NYC for the Data Summit...

So you’re on the cloud or plan to move there very soon.

If you want to know what the big players are doing with Big Data, then the Data Summit is the place to be. This Big Data conference, that will take...

What do U2’s lead singer Bono, pro skater Tony Hawk, and Netflix founder Reed Hastings have in common? Collision. Not a literal crash, but the huge tech conference that will...

Last year, we recruited $3 million, got featured on TechCrunch, found new customers, hired more employees, attended conferences around the globe, spent thousands of hours on R&D, and invested a...

Every year, dozens of Big Data conferences take place all over the world, from San Francisco to Shanghai. Now that 2015 is finally here, it’s time to open up your...

We want to know more about the Big Data community: what causes them headaches? What makes them happy? Which tools and technologies do they use? When we had our booth...

Big Data is mostly famous, well, for being big. So if you have anything under a petabyte, why would you even think about using Apache Hadoop? But you should.

Google BigQuery is a great Big Data warehouse on the cloud for the SQL-savvy. But it’s not right for everything. Google itself recommends using Hadoop’s MapReduce rather than BigQuery for...

Screencast on how to connect Amazon S3 with Xplenty.

We’ve uploaded a brand new screencast which shows how to process web server logs with Xplenty.

What if you have a killer idea for GitHub’s Data Challenge but no money, servers, or coders at your disposal? We have the solution for you. You can sign up...

Hadoop is definitely a great solution for processing dark data, but what if you don’t know how to use it? Hadoop requires you to buy new hardware, provide expert maintenance,...

The 2014 World Cup is the hottest World Cup ever. Not just because of the soaring temperatures in Brazil that send players begging for water breaks, but also because of...

In our previous post, we discussed Mad Men and how to design a data warehouse in the space age of Big Data. This post will take another step forward, or...

In "The Monolith", the fourth episode in Mad Men’s final season, a huge computer is installed in the center of the floor. The computer was brought in because a competing...

Unstructured data is big - according to IDC, about 90 percent of the storage in the world is used for unstructured data. It comes as no surprise considering the amount...

Amazon launched Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) to make Hadoop easier, but there were still too many Hadoop hoops to jump through before processing Big Data. That’s why we founded Xplenty....

There are three ways to collect data on the cloud: storing it directly in the database, uploading log files, or logging via S3/CloudFront. Although we reviewed the pros and cons...

What does it mean to be a pig? Well, according to the philosophers behind the Apache Pig project pigs eat anything, live anywhere, and are domestic animals. They even claim...

Huge amounts of data are needed to calculate key performance indicators (KPIs), a luxury that only large enterprises were able to afford. This post series discusses how companies of all...

In his recent article "Turbocharge Your Porsche - Buy An Elephant", Bill Inmon, "the father of data warehousing", criticizes Cloudera for associating Big Data with the data warehouse, two totally...

Last week I packed my suitcase and got on a plane to London. The agenda - presenting at the February Hadoop Users Group UK meetup. The meetup was supposed to...

Readers of our blog should know by now that Apache Hadoop is great for offline batch processing of Big Data. But what about online streaming data? What if you’re running...

Consider for a moment, if you will, plastic patio furniture. Plastic Fantastic is a global manufacturer with several factories, warehouses, and plenty of stores. One can only imagine the sheer...

Now, Hadoop! Now, SQL! Now, NOSQL, and Opensource! On, Cloud technology! On, Apps! On, SaaS, and Infrastructure!

First day at Vegas!

Peanut butter and jelly. Peas and carrots. Forest and Jenny. Bert and Ernie. Abbot and Costello. Sports and data? Of course.

Buzz about Big Data has been at fever pitch for over a year now. We hear a lot about how the insights we glean will propel businesses, about emerging technologies, and...