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…
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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…
