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September 23, 2016
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
September 14, 2016
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
September 12, 2016
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
September 5, 2016
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
September 2, 2016
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
August 22, 2016
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
August 19, 2016
After the Storm Comes the Heron: How Twitter's Heron is Attempting to Replace Apache Storm
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
August 5, 2016
6 Ways to Get More Convenience Out of Spark in the Cloud
So, you got Spark. Since you wanted to save tons on storage (plus eliminate all that hassle setting up and maintaining your architecture), you opted for… Continue Reading
August 1, 2016
4 Things to Know About Hadoop & Apache Spark
Within the marketplace of big data and analytical products, Hadoop and Spark are often pitted as competitors. That's not really the case. Many big data… Continue Reading
July 18, 2016
Covering the Basics: Spark as a Service
Developed by the Apache Software Foundation, which specializes in open source software and has taken a particular fancy to big data analytical tools,… Continue Reading
July 8, 2016
4 Powerful Ways Manufacturers are Putting Big Data to Extraordinarily Good Use
There has been so much emphasis on how big data is being used in industries like banking, security, and especially marketing. Less is said about how it… Continue Reading
July 4, 2016
Can You Hire Big Data & Fire Your Lawyer? The Future of AI in Business Law
One of the most hotly contested aspects of taking on artificial intelligence (AI) has always been the potential for machines to take over jobs that have… Continue Reading