A paper in the early 2000s about Google MapReduce helped to democratize distributed computing. A veteran of the industry discusses that time and the huge changes that continue to unfold today.
- By Linda L. Briggs
- June 30, 2015
Tips for harnessing unstructured data, protecting data in a small and midsize business, and migrating to in-memory computing.
Changes are occurring in the publishing industry as digital distribution platforms grow in importance and print distribution declines. In this two-part series, we examine and describe the new business environment and how data analytics can help.
A new report from TDWI Research aims to provide a primer for modernizing the data warehouse.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 30, 2015
Articles focusing on crafting personal customer service, succeeding with IoT, and changes needed if mainframes are to remain relevant.
Seven ways to extract the greatest benefit from content analytics, plus choosing between object store and HDFS (or building your own) data storage system.
Finding the correct virtual infrastructure or cloud-based storage, plus avoiding failures in marketing (hint: maximize your data) and finding the perfect tool to stop data loss.
Text analytics is becoming more mainstream and interest in it is growing. Here are five basic things about text analytics you need to know now.
- By Fern Halper, Ph.D.
- June 23, 2015
The second generation of the Internet of things combines processing concurrency along with scale-out architectures to enable real-time decision-making, explains Monte Zweben, co-founder and CEO of Splice Machine.
- By Linda L. Briggs
- June 23, 2015