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Feed Your Hadoop with Bare Metal

Once limited to internet giants like Google, Hadoop is moving into the business mainstream, allowing businesses to ingest and analyze massive quantities… Continue Reading

Learn how to get sub-millisecond response times with Couchbase

Next week we will be presenting in a very interesting meetup, where we will talk about Couchbase and Hadoop: how to quickly move data from one to the… Continue Reading

HUG Meetup: SQL and NoSQL on Hadoop – a look at performance

As usage of Hadoop has broadened, choosing the right DB technology and deployment platform represents key factors for the performance of your data analysis… Continue Reading

Syncsort interview: Full Metal Power in the Bigstep High Performance Cloud

The team at Syncsort recently invited us to take part in their Expert Interview series with Big Data specialists. Ioana, our Commercial Director, accepted… Continue Reading

Great news: you can get 60% more performance on existing infrastructure

We recently released a series benchmarking results which reveal that you can get up to 60% more performance from existing infrastructure - be it on-premise… Continue Reading

AlignAlytics benchmarks Elasticsearch, sees 200% performance improvement

Every so often we come across a use case that makes every hour of work put into our Full Metal Cloud worth it many times over. Today we’re in the… Continue Reading

NoSQL Performance Benchmarks Series: Couchbase

This is the first of a series of performance benchmarks on NoSQL DBs that we plan to share with you. Our goal is to understand the various scaling… Continue Reading

Getting the Most Out of Your NoSQL DB

Many IT directors are failing to get the optimum performance from their infrastructure. So we’ve been conducting a number of benchmarking studies to see… Continue Reading

Don’t let security concerns impact use of big data

Security is an on-going issue in IT, with data breaches and how to prevent them, top of the agenda for many CIOs. This has been exacerbated by the rise… Continue Reading

Little wins key to big data success

Big data remains one of the major forces in technology in 2014, rich in potential with insight to allow informed business decision making. Yet it does… Continue Reading

What makes a good bare metal cloud?

Bare metal cloud is a relatively new term to add to the technology lexicon. Emerging as a concept a few years ago, it has started to gain awareness and… Continue Reading

Big data in use…healthcare

The latest in our series of blog posts that look at how big data is being deployed in different industries, this time focuses on healthcare.Healthcare… Continue Reading