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 Whether you are a large enterprise, a growing business, a government organization, or a service provider, Cloud Expo New York is THE place you need to be June 11-14...so you can better understand both the provision and use of the cloud services that increasingly transforming IT and bus...May. 16, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 780 |
 With BigDataExpo 2012 New York (www.BigDataExpo.net), co-located with 10th Cloud Expo, now just four weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the confere...May. 16, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,933 |
 With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now under four weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...May. 16, 2012 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,477 |
 With BigDataExpo 2012 New York (www.BigDataExpo.net), co-located with 10th Cloud Expo, now under four weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the confer...May. 16, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,152 |
 Infrastructure as a Service cloud platforms enable enterprise to experience agility. Infrastructure agility is key to deploying Big Data platforms and applications. As datasets grow in size and numbers in the enterprise, there needs to be a place to store, secure and analyze the datase...May. 16, 2012 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,329 |
 With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now under four weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...
We have technical and strate...May. 16, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,550 |
 Everyone in IT knows Moore’s Law, which states that the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years (sometimes 18 months). Named after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, who first noted the trend in 1965, Moore’s Law...May. 15, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 808 |
 With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now only four weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...
We have technical and strateg...May. 14, 2012 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 7,893 |
 About once every five years or so, the technology industry blazes a new path of innovation. The PC, the Internet, smart mobility and social networking have emerged over the past 20 plus years, delivering new technologies and business ecosystems that have fundamentally changed the world...May. 11, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,264 |
 Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest particle accelerator that is being used to find the elusive "God particle" generates about 40Terabytes (1 TB=103GB) of data per day from its four main detectors. Assuming an average size of 1GB for a movie, that amounts to a data stream ...May. 11, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 955 |
 By generating massive amounts of new data that in turn require more and more bandwidth, Big Data is stretching an already-congested enterprise WAN to the breaking point. Many companies have made sizable investments in Big Data technologies, and are now looking to emerging cloud technol...May. 11, 2012 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,870 |
 In a list aimed at identifying who to follow on Twitter for "the latest trends, news and opinions" on Big Data, as well as to identify the figures shaping the discussion and the evolution of field, SAP has included the official BigDataExpo Twitter page (@BigDataExpo.com). The list was ...May. 10, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 545 |
 No individual can really track and understand the impact of change in all the emerging technologies like Cloud Computing, Mobile Computing, Social Media, Agile Methodology and Big Data … You can realistically aim to have an in depth understanding of only a small subset. By in depth und...May. 10, 2012 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,000 |
 “The speed of businesses is accelerating, requiring continuous tuning and optimization of business processes and operations,” noted Bruce Fingles, CIO and VP of Product Quality at Xsigo Systems, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “IT organizations mus...May. 10, 2012 03:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,528 |
 With Big Data Expo 2012 New York (www.BigDataExpo.net), co-located with 10th Cloud Expo, now five weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...May. 9, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,034 |
 The average business in 2012 will double its amount of data, with more than half of that increase occurring within the cloud. Aggregation of data is no longer the competitive lever in itself, but rather the distribution and commercialization of data across multiple platforms.
In his ...May. 9, 2012 04:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,008 |
 There is a data deluge coming and most enterprises are preparing to integrate or introduce technologies for handling the big data in the existing IT setup. There are several challenges that enterprises face in integrating the Big Data technologies with existing IT setups.
In his sessi...May. 8, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,086 |
 We are living in a world of unprecedented growth in the digital universe. In just over a decade, the Internet and the creation and utilization of digital data has gone from nascent to a vital part of everyday life. This is why electronic data is growing at rates that make Moore’s Law a...May. 7, 2012 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,956 |
 Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive, Hbase, Lucene, Solr? The only thing growing faster than enterprise data these days is the landscape of big data tools. These tools, which are designed to help organizations turn big data into opportunities, are gaining deeper insight into massive volumes of inf...May. 7, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,017 |
 With Big Data Expo 2012 New York (www.BigDataExpo.net), co-located with 10th Cloud Expo, now just six weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the confer...May. 6, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,892 |
 The age of Big Data is here. Organizations are no longer challenged to find enough data to answer the pertinent questions required for success in today’s dynamic business environment. Rather, companies are struggling to keep pace with the enormous volumes of data invading their organiz...May. 5, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,275 |
 “Big data represents a sea change of capabilities in IT” notes Matt McLarty, Vice President, Client Solutions at Layer 7, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. McLarty continued: “In conjunction with mobile and cloud, I think Big Data will provide a tech...May. 5, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,457 Replies: 1 |
 With Big Data Expo 2012 New York (www.BigDataExpo.net), co-located with 10th Cloud Expo, now under six weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the confe...May. 4, 2012 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,526 |
 “Security standards for moving data into and out of the cloud and for hosting it within the cloud will dramatically help accelerate adoption of the cloud as a secure computing platform,” observed Dr. William L. Bain, founder and CEO of ScaleOut Software, in this exclusive Q&A with Clou...May. 4, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,307 |
 “While there is still a lot of interest in Big Data Analytics, we see an increasing focus on Big Unstructured Data,” observed Tom Leyden, Director of Alliances and Marketing at Amplidata, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. And, Leyden continued, “Obje...May. 2, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,096 |
 The two primary commercial providers that signed on for the proprietary files systems – IBM and EMC (via partnership with MapR) – have retrenched.
As we’ve noted previously, the measure of success of an open source stack is the degree to which the target remains intact. That either co...May. 2, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,244 |
 Every technologist I know has been working to learn more about Hadoop. I bet you are already somewhat familiar with some of the neat use-cases of this technological framework. But let me ask, wouldn’t you like to be able to express what Hadoop is in a clear, succinct way? May. 2, 2012 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,021 |
 Big Data applications have gained new momentum in the marketplace, as the benefits of working with larger and larger data sets enables analysts to spot key business-related trends. International Data Corporation (IDC) released a worldwide forecast of Big Data opportunities, noting that...May. 2, 2012 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,108 |
 While Big Data has been thought of as large stores of data at rest, it can also be about data in motion.
Of the 3 "V’s” of Big Data – volume, variety, velocity (we’d add "Value” as the 4th V) – velocity
has been the unsung ‘V.’ With the spotlight on Hadoop, the popular image of Big D...Apr. 30, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,140 |
 “Exponentially increasing data volume, Internet access points and speed have made Big Data more accessible and therefore more practical,” noted Mike Carpenter, VP of Business Development at CARI.net, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Add social medi...Apr. 30, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,337 |
 Study after study refutes the myth that cybersecurity is compromised by malicious, brilliant hackers. Advanced persistent threats, state-sponsored hackers, and foreign intelligence agencies are serious threats, especially to major targets, but the vast majority of breaches and leaks re...Apr. 26, 2012 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 811 |
 Data is exploding, Big Data is in every environment. Organizations are finding new tools to analyze and govern their IT capabilities, but not without a cost. How decision makers sense-make of all this data is the newest challenge. How are they to integrate dashboard after dashboard, po...Apr. 26, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 708 |
 Good news for Big Data users: Cloudera recently released the second and final beta for Cloudera’s Distribution Including Apache Hadoop version 4 (CDH4), meaning that the official CDH4 release is coming soon. If you aren’t already using CDH, Cloudera offers the leading open-source...Apr. 26, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 888 |
 Datameer provides a big data solution that focuses on perhaps the most important niche in this growing domain, the end-user. Here is an introduction from their website: Datameer leverages the scalability, flexibility and cost-effectiveness of Apache Hadoop to deliver an end-user focuse...Apr. 26, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,019 |
 Big Data is a top technology trend for 2012 according to Forrester Research. The Economist said that Big Data is a new game changing asset and The Harvard Business Review termed it as a scientific revolution. Scientific Revolution? Because it is data-intensive … Apr. 26, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,035 |
 Cloudera, the leading provider of Apache Hadoop-based data management software, services and training, today announced that it has established a Japanese subsidiary, Cloudera KK, and an office in Japan. Cloudera's formal presence extends availability of its products and support offerin...Apr. 26, 2012 01:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,149 |
 Big Data is often described by the three drivers (dimensions) of: volume, velocity and variety. But Stefan Andreasen, Founder and CTO of Kapow has alerted us to the fourth – spread. Volume describes the overall AMOUNT of Big Data. It almost goes without saying, that for data to be big,...Apr. 24, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,369 |
 Big Data is Big, but it also causes a lot of confusion. Big Data is used for anything related storage these days, so people don’t know anymore what it exactly is. Is it Hadoop? Is it analytics? It doesn’t need to be that complicated though. There are two kinds of Big Data: Big Data (fo...Apr. 21, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,452 |
 It’s almost a strange sounding phrase isn’t it? The rise of the term “Big Data” has been popularized to describe those data sets we now juggle with in the new world of cloud computing and massively distributed databases, fueled as they are by the multiplicity of desktop and mobile devi...Apr. 20, 2012 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,319 |
 ReadWriteWeb‘s Joe Brockmeier captures a recurring issue from last week’s O’Reilly Strata conference, asking “Can Big Data replace domain expertise?” According to Brockmeier, the audience (of data scientists) apparently narrowly agreed that their arsenal o...Apr. 20, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,196 |
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