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Getting the most out of Impala - presentation & whitepaper

In May, Alex, our techie Product Manager gave a presentation at the London Enterprise Technology Meetup on infrastructure best practices for getting… Continue Reading

Big data in use…the World Cup

We’ve written before about the use of big data in sport, but with the World Cup in full swing we wanted to turn our attention to how big data is… Continue Reading

Is Bigstep’s Full Metal Cloud the Best Cloud Service?

We think so, of course. But we have recently been shortlisted in the Cloud World Series Awards 2014 in the Best Cloud Service category, so maybe we aren’t… Continue Reading

Best Practices For Scaling Elasticsearch In The Cloud

Alex Bordei (@alexandrubordei), our Product Manager  has benchmarked Elasticsearch on a wide range of Full Metal Clusters, in order to find the infrastructure… Continue Reading

Putting a value to big data

Most businesses have woken up to the fact that big data is an area in which they need to invest in to realise its rich potential. Finding the investment… Continue Reading