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 ...
Big Data TechCon Welcomes LinkedIn to Technical Program
Announces industry keynote in addition to more than 55 how-to big data classes and tutorials
MELVILLE, N.Y., August 25, 2014 —BZ Media LLC today announced its opening keynote at Big Data TechCon, the how-to technical conference for IT professionals implementing ...
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 ...
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 ...
Twitter open sources Storm-Hadoop hybrid called Summingbird
Twitter has open sourced a system that aims to mitigate the tradeoffs between batch processing and stream processing by combining them into a hybrid system. In the case of Twitter, Hadoop handles batch processing, Storm handles stream processing, and the ...