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How to Get Everyone on Board with Your Big Data Initiatives

You've read the blogs and seen the news: big data is here and you're convinced it's an excellent solution for your organization. But not everyone agrees.… Continue Reading

Is the Next Silicon Valley Coming to... Utah?

Just fewer than 3 million souls call Utah home; some 80 percent of them live and work in a comparatively small section in the north-central part of the… Continue Reading

Big Data & Social Media

Most brands have learned to leverage social media to engage with their customers, at least to some degree. They manage accounts on Facebook, Twitter,… Continue Reading

Webinar: Datameer & Bigstep CEOs get together to talk analytics on Hadoop

Analytics on Hadoop in minutes instead of daysBigstep CEO Flaviu Radulescu and Datameer CEO Stefan Groschupfsat down and discussed big data, analytics… Continue Reading

You Don't Have to Be in Robotics to Make Use of Artificial Intelligence

The concepts of robots and artificial intelligence, or AI, have been linked from the beginning. Author Samuel Butler first conjured up the idea in his… Continue Reading

Why Big Oil Wasting Big Data is a Big Deal

For those who know what big data is capable of in terms of improving production, lowering costs, and streamlining processes, it is almost unfathomable… Continue Reading

Is Virtual Reality a Viable Tool for Your Brand?

The video gaming industry was quick to jump on the virtual reality bandwagon, offering gamers a chance to really get into the game and pretend the action… Continue Reading

Is Big Data the Answer to Your Security Questions?

The year 2014 became known as the Year of the Hacker, even before it mercifully came to an end. In fact, many security experts predict that the trend… Continue Reading

Big Data: Are We All Speaking the Same Language?

Big data has brought a big host of new terms along for the ride. Though often touted as just "buzzwords," it's important that everyone understands exactly… Continue Reading

The World’s Fastest Analytic DB On The World’s Highest Performance Cloud

In-memory data analytics in the Full Metal CloudOrganizations that need to jump into their large data workloads can now benefit from the world’s… Continue Reading

SQL Versus NoSQL: What are the Differences and How Do You Choose?

For several decades, SQL (Structured Query Language) has been the most used programming language for managing databases. SQL is a relational database… Continue Reading

6 Reasons Why It's Better to Run Hadoop in the Cloud

Want to begin taking advantage of the power of Hadoop for managing and analyzing big data? If so, you have a lot of decisions to make regarding how and… Continue Reading