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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Sector Roadmap: machine learning and predictive analytics
A mixture of big data, improved algorithms, increasingly cheaper storage, and cloud-hosted options has fueled a surge in new data mining…
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Data privacy and security in the post-Snowden era
Strict E.U. regulations on data privacy have left Iceland as a key location for corporate cloud-hosting providers.
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Approachable analytics: data intelligence for everyone
On their own, visualization, data science and machine learning don't solve the challenge of data analysis for businesses. Users need a…
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Data ethics: transparency as sustainable competitive advantage
Individuals and organizations alike face immature, emerging legislation, constantly shifting and evolving cultural and social values about central issues such as…
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3 strategies for developing the data-driven store
Tracking customers through today's data-driven shopping journey provides retailers a fresh take on doing business and the chance to deliver the…
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How IT can blend massive connectivity with cognitive computing to enable insights
Predictive analytics methods are extremely useful when dealing with the likes of fraudulent activity, imminent hardware failures, or credit risk. But…
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Retail’s pivotal moment: how to deliver effective personalization
While online personalization has been around for a while, only now are things really lining up for implementing it in a…
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Beyond MapReduce: How the new Hadoop works
New features included in Hadoop’s latest releases go some way towards freeing an increasingly capable data platform from the constraints of…
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How to deliver a comprehensive big data analytics framework to communication service providers
After undergoing dramatic shifts in recent years, big data analytics are now helping CSPs keep up with the changes by creating…
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Moving Hadoop beyond MapReduce
Hadoop far more than the one-trick pony it was once characterized as, and with its new capabilities, businesses are using it…
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How advertisers can keep pace with the changing television landscape
Three core drivers are changing the television landscape and confusing advertisers: consolidation of big-media distribution, platform-driven viewing fragmentation, and the infiltration…
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Hadoop security: Solutions emerge
As Hadoop moves towards establishing itself as a key data management platform for the enterprise, there is a new set of…
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