The debate: Defining the value of big data
The rise of big data has provided a fundamental shift in how we think about storing and leveraging structured and unstructured data. Indeed, when using this distributed database technology, as well as...
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With these new big data and analytical workloads we seem to have taken a massive step backwards in my mind. We have moved away from what a couple of years ago was the platform of choice, highly...
View ArticleAn I/O booster for big data? That’s the question! – Part 2
In part 1, we talked about the need for fast communications in a smarter architecture and used the example of the postal industry to look at how communication delays have been reduced over time. In...
View ArticleWhen does 00100011 change from data to #bigdata?
Traditional data processing technologies—querying a DBMS with SQL, for example—are considered to have limitations in the volume, velocity and variety of data that they can efficiently process. And they...
View ArticleHow many words beginning with V does it take to change a light bulb?
For organizations that use the mainframe today, the data that is most relevant and beneficial to answering the most burning questions may reside primarily on the mainframe. When this is the case,...
View ArticleMy summer vacation was filled with gardens, clouds and…big data?
Why is Hadoop important? Big data is everywhere these days and many clients aren't sure where to start or what they want to get out of big data. Why spend so much time learning about open source...
View ArticleIBM Systems & Technology: Happening Now at IOD2013
It has never been more clear that infrastructure matters to our clients' success in using big data & analytics to drive business value--and the market is buzzing about the opportunities and...
View ArticleDoes infrastructure matter for big data and analytics? Issue 1: Speed
Are you asking questions like, "How fast can I ingest data depending upon its granularity of format or location? And how quickly can I generate insights through some form of algorithms or...
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