Gazzang Predicts 2013: The Year Big Data Goes Big Time
Wrapping up a year of impressive growth and product innovation, Gazzang, the Linux data security company, today made its 2013 predictions covering emerging trends in big data, the cloud and open source...
View ArticleThe Big Data Bottleneck: Uploading to the Cloud
Uploading Big Data from our internal network to the Cloud via an Internet connection is as practical as filling a swimming pool through a drinking straw. It doesn’t matter how sophisticated our Big...
View ArticleTake Big Advantage of Your Data
The Big Data and analytics challenge that data virtualization best addresses is helping enterprises take advantage of their data. In other words, enterprises today are data rich with loads of...
View ArticleTelco Big Data Analytics: Improve Market Share and ARPU
It’s common knowledge that the subscriber growth enjoyed by wireless Communication Service Providers (CSPs) over the last several years is tapering off. The CSPs really need new sources of revenue to...
View ArticleThe Challenges and Benefits of Big Data
A panel of experts explores how large enterprises are delivering better risk assessments and risk analysis, and how big data can be both an area to protect, but also a tool for understanding and...
View ArticleFor Better Security, Honesty Is the Best Policy
It goes without saying that 'Big Data' is very much a hot topic right now. In fact, there doesn't seem to be a day when we're not being spoken to, about or on the subject, and when you consider the...
View ArticleHandling eDiscovery in the Context of Big Data
Big Data – a large amount of information that comes in a variety of forms and constantly changes – has generated a significant amount of buzz in the business world, mostly around the implications for...
View ArticleAPIs in Your Eyes with the Augmented Reality Wave of Bigger Data
Through the sheer volume of big data bombarding the human mind, a more human delivery and capture of data is coming. Google Glasses will only be one of them, as augmented reality becomes a business...
View ArticleBig Data Morphs
There is a backlash growing against the term "Big Data.” Some of the negativity is just because of hype; people are attaching the name to their company for any reason, absurd reasons, and/or no reason...
View ArticleData Analytics – The Way Forward
Recent developments in the healthcare industry have meant that patient and disease specific data is now more important than ever. This is because EMRs backed by health information exchanges across the...
View ArticleWhat to Do About the Data Silo Challenge
Organizations today understand that better access to information assets can improve their bottom-line. But they struggle with the variety of enterprise, cloud and big data sources, and all their...
View ArticleChallenges in Data Access for New Age Data Sources
The Big Data and Cloud “movements” have acted as catalysts for tremendous growth in fit-for-purpose databases. Along with this growth, we see a new set of challenges in how we access the data through...
View ArticleTaming the Big Data Beast
If you’re not convinced the hype around Big Data is entirely justified, consider the following statistics: in the time it takes an average person to read this article, 72 petabytes of data (that’s 72 x...
View ArticleFederal Big Data Spending Soaring
Federal agencies spent close to $4.9 billion on Big Data resources during fiscal year 2012 and that number could grow to $5.7 billion in 2014. Research firm Deltek estimates federal big data spending...
View ArticleHybrid Big Data Solutions
Microsoft recently announced the PolyBase technology as part of SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse solution. PolyBase is a breakthrough new technology on the data processing engine in SQL Server...
View ArticleWelcome to Data Land
Many software vendors, analyst and journalist are overusing the term “Data Governance” in today’s complex business and IT environments. However, it has become one of the primary goals and drivers for...
View ArticleMonitoring Infrastructure Is Essential for Optimizing Performance
The most essential element in optimizing performance is detecting issues before they impact your systems. However, you need to implement constant monitoring on your operating environment to gain this...
View ArticleSo What? – Monitoring Hadoop Beyond Ganglia
Over the last couple of months I have been talking to more and more customers who are either bringing their Hadoop clusters into production or have already done so and are now getting serious about...
View ArticleHadoop and Big Data Easily Understood - How to Conduct a Census of a City
BigData (and Hadoop) are buzzword and growth areas of computing; this article will distill the concepts into easy-to-understand terms. As the name implies, BigData is literally "big data" or "lots of...
View ArticleBig Data and Mobility Change the Way We Live
This week I read an interesting article titled, Mobile Phone Data Redraws Bus Routes in Africa. Seems the MNO (mobile network operator) Orange released 2.5 billion phone records (anonymised data) from...
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