How to perform capacity planning for a Hadoop cluster
The number of machines, and specs of the machines, depends on a few factors: the volume of data (obviously), the data retention policy (how much can you afford to keep before throwing away), the type of workload you have (data ...
5 Big Data Trends Impacting Financial Institutions in 2025
The adoption of industry standards and more mature platforms will shift big data's focus from IT-driven infrastructure projects to business-driven data solutions. Those who adopt big data strategies early and aggressively will realize operational efficiencies and top-line growth.
In 2025, we ...
Tools of a Data Scientist
Unlike your typical programmer, who may use a standardised set of tools, data scientists tend to use a wide array of ever changing tools. This is because the data science landscape is evolving rapidly, with many new tools still far ...
3 Steps to Better Hadoop Management
It makes sense to get excited about the possibilities afforded by Apache™ Hadoop® YARN-based applications such as Spark, Storm, Presto and others to provide substantial business value. However, the actual tasks of managing and maintaining the environment should not get ...
3 Tips for Optimizing Big Data Analytics
Every year, the amount and type of data companies must manage increases. Commonly called Big Data, this information—everything from social media posts, audio and images to transaction records, sensor data and video—continues growing unabated. According to IDC, data is growing ...
8 Skills You Need to Be a Data Scientist
Interested in landing a job as a data scientist? These are the core set of 8 data science competencies you should develop:
1. Basic Tools: No matter what type of company you’re interviewing for, you’re likely going to be expected to ...
10 reasons why industries should use custom analytics applications
Analytics is a complex process of breaking down streams of data into its many components in order to find patterns, trends and correlations. The market place is full of analytics products and though most of them are good, they may ...
Work with private repositories and other updates of the FlyElephant platform
The FlyElephant team has prepared a number of upgrades that allow you to work with private repositories with an improved system security and good task functionality.
FlyElephant is a platform for scientists, providing a computing infrastructure for calculations, helping to find ...
3 Ways Big Data Can Change Student Lives
Approximately 2.5 quintillion bytes of data is created every day with a staggering 90 percent of the world’s total data having been created in the last two years, according to IBM.
Simply put, data is just information. However, take large amounts ...
Bank of America & Ticketmaster share DC optimization stories
Software-defined data center to dominate the airwaves at New York conference
The newly launched “Software-Defined” conference track at DCD Enterprise in New York on April 19-20 will explore the subject from every angle. “SDDC simply means that no layer of the ...