Projects like Apache YARN expand the types of workloads for which Hadoop is a viable and compelling solution, leading practitioners to…
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Pushing big data to the executive edge
Getting big data to senior executives requires the business intelligence community to help them overcome reservations around the technology.
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Real-time marketing takes hold
Spurred by some spectacular successes, and some equally spectacular failures, real-time marketing is expanding beyond its roots as brand content synced…
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The application-defined data center
Enterprises can use data centers and cloud computing together to meet the infrastructure needs of emerging applications and new requirements.
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Beyond SSDs: flash and performance-sensitive computing
Flash's balance between speed and cost opens provides opportunities for emerging big-data applications as well as applications that are otherwise input/output…
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How enterprises will use the cloud for big data analytics
Enterprises are shifting big-data analytics projects to the cloud but compatibility, security, and performance concerns remain key blockers to adoption.
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Market landscape: in-memory database technologies
The landscape of data solutions has been significantly disrupted in the last several years, on multiple fronts. Another such disruption is…
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Intelligence-aware threat detection and mitigation
In the era of big data, organizations must employ a combination of security analytics, intelligence-aware security controls, and automated response to…
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How smart management of marketing tech can boost site ROI
Today’s marketing technology landscape is a highly complex labyrinth of platforms, applications, and APIs. To fully reap the benefits, though, IT…
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Big data and big agriculture
As the global population increases, weather volatility grows, and fuel prices surge, there will be more incentives to use data and…
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Big data and analytics third quarter 2014: analysis and outlook
The third quarter showed clear signs of Hadoop’s maturation and the industry’s maturity in working with it. Meanwhile, megavendors continued to…
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Big storage for big data
IT organizations considering open-source software for object storage must weigh the free technology against potential risks and total cost commitments.
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