The Official Bigstep Blog

Big data is hailed as the next frontier of marketing. Some predict that in the not-so-distant future, big data will virtually drive business and marketing… Continue Reading

Bare metal computing isn't new, but it's just gained mainstream attention recently. Developed in 2009, bare metal sort of fell to the wayside as the virtualized… Continue Reading

Do CIOs love Hadoop, hate it, or love to hate it? It turns out, the answer is: a little of all three. While hiring Hadoop talent at unprecedented rates… Continue Reading

Yahoo! has become the largest user of Hadoop, establishing a cluster setup comprised of 10,000 CPUs located in more than 40,000 servers with 4,500 nodes.… Continue Reading

Most healthcare managers and administrators are already familiar with the concept of big data and the cloud. In fact, about 80 percent of healthcare facilities… Continue Reading

Experts have predicted the popularity of the cloud to erupt the past couple of years, but this year it finally did. Now, 87 percent of businesses are… Continue Reading

Big data applications are making the transition from proof-of-concept to production, and with this transition comes demand for application resiliency… Continue Reading

Demand for low-latency networks used to be limited to time-critical, capital-intensive applications like financial trading. Today, however, organizations… Continue Reading

The bare metal cloud is the latest trend in the cloud computing space, which has taken the IT world by storm. Cloud computing, or the ability to store… Continue Reading

The cloud is part of the natural evolution of the internet. Why run software locally when you can use a cloud app that's automatically upgraded and patched,… Continue Reading

This presentation was made during the Couchbase London Meetup. Our Product Manager, Alex made a performance benchmark on Couchbase which shows sub-millisecond… Continue Reading

Companies cope with exponentially more data than they had just a few years ago. The sheer number of devices that create and transmit data has proliferated… Continue Reading