Time is Money: Milliseconds Matter [INFOGRAPHIC]
Did you know just a one second increase in Amazon's page load time could potientially cost the retail giant $1.6…
The Role of Standards in Predictive Analytics: A Series
I am working on a paper, for publication in early 2014, on the role of standards such as R, Hadoop…
3 Tips for Selling Your Boss on Big Data
For more and more businesses, big data analytics is becoming a valuable tool for gaining new insights and creating competitive…
Three Reasons to Check Out Google’s Cloud Solution for Hadoop
Most of us have heard about Apache Hadoop. Most of us have heard about cloud computing, but it seems that…
Hadoop: A Storage Platform as Well as Analysis Tool?
Data warehouses are a critical component for enterprises seeking to gain insights from the data they collect, but as the…
What You Need to Know About Latency Before the Holiday Season
The holiday season is fast approaching, which for many businesses is a critical time of year to boost sales and…
3 Big Advantages of Hadoop on the Cloud
Most of the major Apache Hadoop distributions now offer their version of the Hadoop platform in the cloud uniting two…
Why Enterprises Should Be More Interested in Hadoop
An example use case of Hadoop and in-memory systems extracted from the CIO guide to using Hadoop and SAP systems. …
5 Ways Big Data Can Make Our Cars Smarter
Cars are probably not the first thing that comes to mind when you hear someone talk about data sources, but…
How Big Data is Replacing the Job Interview
Recruiting has always been seen as an art. Employers and recruiters spend hours writing job descriptions, scouring over resumes and…