Can Big Data and Hadoop Feed the World?
It’s no secret that the world’s population is growing. It’s no secret that the world’s population is growing. In fact,…
Opportunity for the Office of Finance in 2014
Senior finance executives and finance organizations that want to improve their performance must recognize that technology is a key tool…
Hadoop Code Reuse and Step-by-step Ways to Simplify Business Computing
The MapReduce of Hadoop is a widely-used parallel computing framework. However, its code reuse mechanism is inconvenient, and it is…
3 Reasons Hadoop is Heading to the Cloud
Cloud computing and big data have been vying for the attention of business owners for several years now. Both initiatives…
Google and Apache Hadoop: A Match Made in the Cloud
To the uninitiated, words like “Google” and “Hadoop” sound like the stuff of a futuristic make-believe world. Being that the…
How Big Data Can Improve Manufacturing Quality
We’ve all heard countless examples of how big data can help companies with their marketing efforts and getting a better…
How 250 Milliseconds in Added Latency Can Ruin Online Sales This Holiday Season
In the midst of this holiday shopping season, business owners find themselves facing countless demands to increase profitability. Many businesses…
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…
