Jun 24, 2014
Cloud computing and big data analytics are two “terms” that few would have imagined being used in the same sentence. Yet, placed together, the two concepts can offer businesses the ability to engage in big data at a reasonable price tag. This is the...
Jun 6, 2014
For 2014, the worldwide software market is forecast to grow 5,9% year-over-year in current US dollars, according to IDC’s latest forecast from the Worldwide Semi-annual Software Tracker. In constant dollars the growth rate has been revised to 5,7%, down from the 6,2%...
Jun 6, 2014
It should come as no surprise that the biggest technological impacts on IT departments in 2013 were mobile and big data. Both issues also dominated conversations in the storage arena last year and with employees now increasingly working remotely, it’s highly likely...
Jun 5, 2014
According to Gartner, chief information security officers (CISOs) need to focus on big data security across all data silos if they are to avoid security chaos. Gartner predicts that, through 2016, more than 80% of organisations will fail to develop a consolidated data...
Jun 3, 2014
A great unmet need for agile cloud application development, application scalability, broader data collection, extreme transaction processing and streaming data management are creating a need for multiple big data technologies besides Hadoop. A newly published...
