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  • 5 strategic tips for avoiding a big data bust

    Failed expectations, increased costs, unnecessary legal risks -- going blind into a big data project doesn?t pay

  • HortonWorks: The Hadoop company everyone wants to be best friends with now

    During the past few years Neustar, an $830 million publicly-traded data analytics company, has undergone a dramatic business transformation, and it's been powered almost entirely by Hadoop.

  • 2012 - The year in quotes

    Some of the most memorable IT-related quotes were uttered in courtrooms this year, which involved a steady stream of legal challenges about intellectual property. In no particular order, these are some of the comments that stuck with us as 2012 winds to a close.

  • Red Hat: Most companies are still not cloud-ready

    Most companies are still not very cloud-ready, and need to work on virtualising and automating their processes before pursuing a cloud strategy in earnest.

  • Dell networking chief: taking on Cisco in the data centre

    It is just over a year since Dell completed its acquisition of Force10 Networks, but the company already has big plans to challenge Cisco's dominance in the data centre.

  • Red Hat, Xen, Java, Cloudera software support ready for 64-bit ARM

    There's been a lot of talk from hardware vendors about 64-bit ARM servers, but without software the fledgling platform won't get very far. Several big vendors made announcements this week that show software support is on its way.

  • Don't lose out on the Big Data lead

    Businesses are slow-moving creatures that operate on established processes to keep them going. They don?t generally have much awareness of what is going on around them, or have the ability to react to the changes they do perceive.

  • Big Data causing big changes, analysts predict

    The unprecedented growth in the volumes and complexity of business information is ushering in the era of ?Big Data?. The phenomenon is not a "thing" but instead a strategic approach that crosses many IT borders and so poses one of the biggest challenges currently facing CIOs from companies of all sizes.

  • Moore's Law meets Parkinson's Law - In praise of raw power

    We are all tired of people telling us to do more with less. OK, it is an inevitable part of life and of enterprise IT. It is time for a fight back, time to campaign for doing more with more.

  • Using Big Data to boost IT security

    Big Data is a big deal in many organisations. Few business unit managers would not be excited about the opportunities that near real-time business intelligence offers their department.






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