Big Data: Will the Rise of Spark Spell the End of Hadoop?
Spark has overtaken Hadoop as the most active open source Big Data project. While they are not directly comparable products,…
Data Cleansing vs Data Maintenance: Which One Is Most Important?
Data Cleansing vs Data Maintenance: Which One Is Most Important?There are always two aspects to data quality improvement. Data cleansing…
Data, Data, Data: Communicating Successfully in the Deluge
Good marketing is effective communication. You’re letting people know what you do, what you make, in a way that makes…
What Do Marketers Really Want in Data and Technology?
What Do Marketers Really Want in Data and Technology?Marketers get data – or at least they get the importance of…
SAS Visual Analytics: Get to the Point with a Geo Coordinate Map
Perhaps you’ve heard people talk about tornado alley – it’s an area down the middle of the US where tornadoes occur. Tornadoes…
Data Preparation Is Essential for Predictive Analytics
Our research into next-generation predictive analytics shows that along with not having enough skilled resources, which I discussed in my previous…
Pentagon Implements New Cyber Security Guidelines for Cloud Vendors
With the US Government's Cloud First initiative, many of the new technologies brought into the Department of Defense have been…
Migrate from Proprietary Software to Linux to Create Cost Savings
Amongst the top IT trends of the moment is the development of Linux Containers. Financial and technical investors, Linuxsoftware programmers and…
6 Steps to Data Disaster Recovery [INFOGRAPHIC]
More than 70 percent of companies are not currently confident in their ability to restore data in the case of…
3 Ways to Get Your Data Into Shape [INFOGRAPHIC]
As data continues to grow at unprecedented speeds, organizations must embrace a data-driven mind-set to stay competitive. As data continues…