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Big Data Becoming the Bare Essential for Business

Big data has been the biggest IT buzzword of the decade. For several years, it's dominated business news journals, tech zines, marketing mags, and industry… Continue Reading

Debunking 3 Myths About the Data Lake

Whether your organization is just dipping your feet in the pond of big data or dunk all the way in for a swim there regularly, someone at some point has… Continue Reading

How Big Data is Helping to Take a Bite Out of World Hunger

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

Stanford Leads the Way Towards Ethical Use of Big Data in Higher Ed

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

Big Data Gets Super-Fast with Ubuntu on Bigstep Metal Cloud

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

How Big Data Made a Big Splash in the Rio Olympic Games

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

Secret Ingredients: 5 Essential Herbs & Spices for Every Streaming Data Platform

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

4 Things You Need to Know to Get the Most from Docker Containers

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 101: The Basics

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

How to Choose the Right NoSQL Database for All the Right Reasons

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

What's New & Exciting for the Hadoop Ecosystem These Days?

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

What is a Metal Cloud?

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