Reasons to Choose Power BI over Excel?
Microsoft Excel is one of the most traditional tools which is commonly used by the organizations to capture and organize data in the form of rows and columns. But besides all the features of Excel, Power BI helps you turn ...
The Biggest Data Breaches of 2019 and What We Can Learn from Them
As data becomes more and more valuable, data breaches are becoming both more common and more costly for businesses who store confidential or identifying data on the cloud.
In 2019, data breaches exposed hundreds of millions user records — if not ...
Online Branding 101: Systems And Solutions That Will Promote Success
Building your brand online can be one of the most profitable activities you engage in. Although defined broadly, branding is basically about creating a consistent, catchy image and ideology that comes to define what your product and service line is ...
Facebook HydraBase adds reliability to Hadoop’s HBase
Facebook's becoming almost as notable for its adventures with open source projects as it is for its social network of more than 1 billion users. The company's latest experiment: revising one of Hadoop's key components to make it more reliable ...
Cassandra-Database Solution for modern day applications?
Cassandra is a one stop choice for data driven organizations dealing with real-time Big Data operations for their core functionalities. Now what makes it so dear to the developers and organizations dealing huge databases is a bunch of features that ...
Hadoop Alternative Hydra Re-Spawns as Open Source
It may not have the name recognition or momentum of Hadoop. But Hydra, the distributed task processing system first developed six years ago by the social bookmarking service maker AddThis, is now available under an open source Apache license, just ...
Why Big Data Applications Are Already a Reality
The advent of the Internet and World Wide Web changed many things in the technology landscape. Information began to become widely accessible. Individuals began to connect with one another online. Merchants began to market and sell their products digitally, sometimes ...
Facebook turns to machine learning
Do you know anything about machine learning? Credit: newyork
Move fast and break things." That is the Facebook motto plastered all over their California headquarters to remind engineers never to stop innovating. This week, the company moved fast and broke ...
Does Bigger Data Lead to Better Decisions?
Many scholars, from decision scientists to organizational theorists, have addressed this question from different perspectives, and the answer, as for most complex questions, is “it depends.” Big Data can lead to Big Mistakes. After all, the financial sector has been ...
Big Data Developers Fear Government Snooping
The level of concern within the developer community prompted by the recent government snooping revelations has been revealed in a new survey. It revealed that nearly four out of 10 (or 39 percent of) developers working with big data applications ...