Game-Changing Real-time Uses for Apache Spark
Apache Spark, hosted on Hadoop, is great for processing large amounts of data quickly, but wouldn’t it be even better…
Leveraging Metadata for (Really) Big Data
The word “metadata” has different meanings for different people. Most people think of this as the embodiment of big brother…
Spark vs. Hadoop: Not Enemies, but Sidekicks
While you might have been hearing about Apache Spark and all of the things it can do, you might be…
Big Intelligence: BI Meets Big Data, with Apache Drill
Welcome to a whole new world of data exploration—a world where SQL specialists are now first class citizens and no…
The Amazing Ways Big Data Drives Success at Rolls Royce
Rolls-Royce manufactures enormous engines which generate huge amounts of power, as they propel airplanes and ships across skies and oceans.…
5 Crucial Considerations for Big Data Adoption [INFOGRAPHIC]
Big Data is quickly going mainstream, but much of the buzz has focused on the various engines from Apache Hadoop…
The Big Data Counterfeiters
The arts and acts of counterfeiting have many manifestations, each with its peculiarities, motivations and modes.There is the well-known counterfeiting…
Ants, Padlocks, and Cyber Security
If you’ve followed the news recently, I don’t need to tell you that cyber security is a topic of major…
Forecast Product Demand with Confidence
Is your company using demand forecasting in your planning process? And are you happy with those results? Based on our…
6 Incredible Ways Big Data Is Used by the US Government
Barack Obama may have appointed the US Government’s first ever Chief Data Scientist – DJ Patil, formerly of LinkedIn, eBay…