Advice to help you think about search and taxonomies, understand the reasons big data projects are slow to create real value, and navigate the many choices in the big data ecosystem.
- By Quint Turner
- July 11, 2016
If any workload can make the most out of lots of processing power and RAM, it's SAP's HANA, an in-memory database. Will HANA's performance characteristics translate to a cloud VM?
- By Steve Swoyer
- July 7, 2016
Keep these five considerations at the forefront of your planning and you'll be able to eke out every ounce of performance possible from your Hadoop cluster in the cloud.
- By Sachin Sinha
- July 7, 2016
With the continuing push for more speed and for cloud offerings, integration platform-as-a-service is gaining traction in new ways.
- By Linda L. Briggs
- July 1, 2016
Cisco Systems and IBM announced they'll collaborate on edge analytics. What is edge analytics and why does it matter?
- By Steve Swoyer
- June 30, 2016
The Transaction Performance Processing Council has revised its official big data benchmark: the aptly titled TPCx-BB. Benchmarks matter -- but not for the reasons you might think.
- By Steve Swoyer
- June 28, 2016
Text is commonly referred to as unstructured data, but it clearly has structure. What does "unstructured" mean in a data context?
- By Bill Inmon
- June 28, 2016
Despite the growing need for data quality, organizations are stuck facing the same problems using the same tools and techniques as years past.
- By Steve Swoyer
- June 27, 2016