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Data Digest: Cloud Storage Drawbacks, Pitfalls of Big Data Marketing, IoT Security Checklist

Today read about the benefits and drawbacks of cloud storage, how marketers are both using and misusing big data, and a checklist of needed security measures for your IoT devices.

How Customers Drive BI and Analytics Innovation

The upcoming TDWI Executive Summit in San Diego will explore innovations in BI, analytics, and data management that are essential for achieving customer intelligence and better customer experiences.

Data Digest: Big Data Success Factors, Open Source Definitions, Cost of Cloud Computing

How to build a successful big data strategy around customer experience, why developers are the best judge of what constitutes open source, and when in-house systems could actually be cheaper than cloud computing.

Clash of the Titans: Hadoop versus Spark

Because Spark can run independently of Hadoop, some see the two as competitors. However, these technologies can complement each other depending on enterprise needs.

Companies, Users, and Surveys Agree: Spark Is Hot, Hot, Hot

Spark is a hot topic right now. So hot, in fact, it's surpassed Hadoop as the open source technology with the most widespread appeal. Whether it can sustain this momentum is another matter.

Data Digest: Streaming Analytics Basics, Consumer Intent, Big Data Security

In these articles, learn the basics of streaming analytics, how marketers can use big data to understand consumer intent, and how to protect your big data assets.

The Trouble with Spark

Spark boasts a lot of processing power but still lacks maturity. There are difficulties in keeping it running, and its troubles with workload variety make it problematic for production applications.

Intelligent Authentication Using Data Analytics

Financial institutions are using more sophisticated techniques to ensure security and improve the user experience.

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