In a world with 7 billion souls, two-thirds of them go hungry on a regular basis. This is in spite of the fact that about 30 percent of the food the world… Continue Reading

Colleges and universities would love nothing more than to deliver an educational experience so personalized that no student ever drops out and all students… Continue Reading

Bigstep gains Ubuntu Public Cloud certificationUbuntu Server images are optimized for performance, security, dependability on Bigstep Metal Cloud, with… Continue Reading

Long before Olympians are groomed for the cameras and briefed about the fears over the Zitka virus, big data was helping them shave tiny fractions of… Continue Reading

Are you cooking up a streaming data platform to handle incoming data from your mobile apps, websites, or Internet of Things devices? If so, there are… Continue Reading

Containers are a technology that allows you to stuff more compute workloads onto a single server, giving you the ability to upscale capacity for new compute… Continue Reading

Elasticsearch is a distributed search and analytical engine (search engine). It operates as a super-fast search within a particular dataset, is multi-tenant,… Continue Reading

If you're taking on big data, you'll quickly realize that that means taking on a lot of unstructured data. Unstructured data doesn't fit into a typical… Continue Reading

Remember a few years ago, when Hadoop took knocks left and right for lacking usability, security, and other key features and functionality? Well, no more.… Continue Reading

If you've been shopping around for cloud services, especially for big data storage and analytics, you've likely stumbled across the term 'metal cloud'… Continue Reading

For the past couple of years, the big data debates have largely involved discussions of Hadoop versus Spark, Spark versus Storm, and MapReduce versus,… Continue Reading

If Hadoop is the tool that ushered in the era of big data, Spark is the one that's driving the next phase of its evolution. Spark is the brainchild of… Continue Reading