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Bigstep presents O'Reilly webcast on getting the most from a 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

Getting the most out of Impala - presentation & whitepaper

In May, Alex, our techie Product Manager gave a presentation at the London Enterprise Technology Meetup on infrastructure best practices for getting… Continue Reading

Big data in use…the World Cup

We’ve written before about the use of big data in sport, but with the World Cup in full swing we wanted to turn our attention to how big data is… Continue Reading

Is Bigstep’s Full Metal Cloud the Best Cloud Service?

We think so, of course. But we have recently been shortlisted in the Cloud World Series Awards 2014 in the Best Cloud Service category, so maybe we aren’t… Continue Reading

Best Practices For Scaling Elasticsearch In The Cloud

Alex Bordei (@alexandrubordei), our Product Manager  has benchmarked Elasticsearch on a wide range of Full Metal Clusters, in order to find the infrastructure… Continue Reading

Putting a value to big data

Most businesses have woken up to the fact that big data is an area in which they need to invest in to realise its rich potential. Finding the investment… Continue Reading

How BYOD is impacting big data

BYOD and big data are two of the biggest IT trends of recent times, vying for attention from press, analysts and influencers all across the industry and… Continue Reading

Big data in use…retail

The retail industry is a big data pioneer that could be said to have been deploying big data before the term was even coined. It has long used loyalty… Continue Reading

press_release James Staten's Blog

James Staten’s Blog Vice President, Principal Analyst Serving Infrastructure & Operations Professionals Forrester Research October 14, 2013… Continue Reading

press_release Alison Coleman

Alison Coleman Journalist at Forbes March 27, 2014 “Launched last year, Bigstep is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) that offers an incredibly… Continue Reading

Getting Started with Splunk for Social Media

We work with Splunk to bring you real-time enterprise grade analytics and business insight based on your machine data. We automatically deploy the free… Continue Reading

Bigstep and Splunk Talk Social Data at Big Data Week London

Big Data Week 2014 was a huge success, with people all over the world enjoying presentations, seminars and panel discussions in more than 30 different… Continue Reading