Smart Security For Your Smart Phone
It’s about time!
If you can prove that your smart phone was never touched by others, then this is not for you. However, the fact is that our smart phones have always been the target of many people around who are ...
5 Questions Enterprises Should Ask When Selecting a NoSQL Database
By Barry Perkins
With the need for more flexibility when it comes to defining and handling large amounts of data, NoSQL has emerged as a feasible alternative to relational databases.
NoSQL databases enable better application development productivity, greater ability to scale dynamically ...
Big Data Analytics – The game changer in the world of sports
Big Data Analytics has gripped the attention of the world with the fascinating insights that it can provide. It has made businesses able to uncover customer preferences, helped marketing managers understand the market trends and even make career portals provide ...
Apache Drill 1.0 is Now Generally Available
Today, we are extremely excited and proud to announce the general availability (GA) of Apache Drill 1.0, as part of the MapR Distribution. Congratulations to the Drill community on this significant milestone and achievement!
Incubated in September 2012 as an Apache ...
9 Questions to Ask Before Kicking off any Big Data Project
What do you get when you combine rebranded analytics systems, a minefield of consultants turned “big data experts,” and insanely expensive “big data servers” that look suspiciously similar to commodity machines?
You get: the most complicated space for any business or ...
Big Data-As-A-Service Is Next Big Thing
We’ve had software as a service, platform as a service and data as a service. Now, by mixing them all together and massively upscaling the amount of data involved, we’ve arrived at Big Data as a Service (or BDaaS, and ...
10 Indian Big Data companies to watch out for in 2015
As the data we generate every micro-second grows and accelerates at a rapid velocity, the requirement for making a business decision is shifting from hindsight-based decision making to a foresight-based approach. Companies are banking upon Big Data and analytics. According ...
5 Trends in Big Data revealed
Even if the term big data is overused to encompass more about the digital world than it should, there is no denying it’s relevance to today’s enterprises.
Companies have been forced to re-examine their data management strategies to make the most ...
Top downloaded papers by SAS Software on Big data in 2014
Here are most widely downloaded and shared papers by industry leader SAS Software on Big data in 2014:
•            How to Use Hadoop as a Piece of the Big Data Puzzle
•            State of the Art Practice with Visual Analytics
•            ...
The secrets of designing and building big data apps
Software applications have traditionally been perceived as a unit of computation designed and used to solve a problem. Whether an application is a CRM tool that helps manage customer information or a complex supply-chain management system, the problem it solves ...