Can You Put a Price on Big Data?
The internet era has changed the economic and political landscape completely. The power of big data has revolutionised most business processes and now allows for decisions and analytical judgments to be made with more certainty than ever before.
In order for ...
The Industries For Whom Secure Data Sharing is a Must in 2015
It’s true that secure data sharing is important for nearly all industries operating across the globe today. With so much pressure heaped upon companies to keep any data that they may hold safe, secure sharing is of the utmost importance ...
MapReduce for C: Run Native Code in Hadoop
Google announced the release of MapReduce for C (MR4C), an open source framework that allows you to run native code in Hadoop.
MR4C was originally developed at Skybox Imaging to facilitate large scale satellite image processing and geospatial data science. We ...
Apache Flink: Possible replacement for Hadoop?
Earlier this week, Apache Software Foundation unveiled its latest Top Level Project (TLP), Flink.
Flink is just one of the many data processing tools that have emerged since the Java-based distributed computing platform Hadoop has increased adoption in the enterprise space.
Flink is ...
Big Data trends for 2015 Infographic
Here is DataRPM's infographic on its analysis of big data and its predictions for 2015.
Top 3 most downloaded and shared papers on Big data in 2014
As we are coming close to the end of 2014, we thought to present to you the most popular papers on Big Data in 2014. Here are top 3 most widely downloaded and shared papers on Big data in 2014:
1. ...
120 Companies Hiring Hadoop Developers
There has been a consistent growth in the demand for people who know Big Data, Hadoop and related technologies. Demand is basically coming from two sectors, one is where data processing environment is already mature like Data warehousing, Data Integration ...
The new Reality-Data Warehouse And Big Data:Modernizing a Traditional BI Concept
Stefan Müller, Director Business Intelligence & Big Data, it-novum
Big Data seems to have rendered the traditional data warehouse concept obsolete, being too slow, not flexible enough and having poor analytics. However, this article shows that – implemented in in the ...
An introduction to Apache Hadoop for big data
Apache Hadoop is an open source software framework for storage and large scale processing of data-sets on clusters of commodity hardware. Hadoop is an Apache top-level project being built and used by a global community of contributors and users. It ...
6 sparkling features of Apache Spark!
What is Apache Spark? Why there is a serious buzz going-on about this? If you are into BigData analytics business then, should you really care about Spark? Hope this post will help to answer some of these questions which might have ...