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Can you use Hadoop to teach old IT new tricks? | #HS16Dublin
What we all love about IT is the pace of change and innovation that keeps it exciting; what we don’t love are the constant growing pains that come with adopting the changes, the expenses, the worry that this year’s infrastructure won’t support tomorrow’s new advances. So a solution that can weave new technology into existing ...
Is your static network architecture ‘so 20 years ago?’ | #CUBEconversations
The revolutionary changes storage underwent in recent years culminated in the explosion of flash, which solved the latency problem. But IT is like a game of whack-a-mole, where once one problem is solved, another pops up to replace it. Now, according to Rich Napolitano, CEO of Plexxi, Inc., that problem is the network — particularly ...
Is an on-prem stepping stone the cure for public cloud jitters? | #CloudWorld
Despite the hype around public could, some companies are still reluctant to make the move off-prem with all that’s at stake. Others cannot move to the cloud for legislative reasons. Swamy Kuppuswamy, director of system integrations, analytics, data science and enterprise data management at Avaya, Inc., said that, happily, the complexities of moving to cloud ...
Is a sensor data explosion about to dwarf Big Data as we know it? | #BigDataSV
Big Data is a big field with big promise and big challenges. It seems that for every creative or profitable use-case we see, a snafu with storing or working with data rears its head. Some questions facing companies collecting Big Data are: Who’s going to parse it, prepare it and turn it into useful information? ...
Is this the magic wand to turn data into awesome applications? | #BigDataSV
Virtualize, virtualize, virtualize — that’s been the mantra in IT over the years, but one area has been uniquely resistant to virtualization — the database. But now with Big Data applications requiring faster processing and moving of data among nodes, the old systems are proving inadequate. The problem, said Rajeev Madhavan, board chairman and founding investor ...
Uh oh. Have we reached ‘peak B.I.’? | #BigDataSV
Even as predictions of all the wonderful things BigData is going to do for businesses are flurrying heavier daily, a troubling yellow light looms ahead. A recent flattening of consumption of business intelligence — one of Big Data’s main use-cases — has caused some to question whether we’ve hit “peak B.I” (business intelligence). Ian Andrews, ...
Do today’s businesses need ‘future proofing?’ | #BigDataSV
As the Big Data snowball continues to roll forward and pick up momentum, the need for speed is increasingly cited by experts as a major area of concern. If Big Data is ever going to deliver on its promise, the phases of gathering and analyzing are going to have to shorten and compress, according to Tendü ...
Sitting on a goldmine: What a free market for data will mean for businesses | #BigDataSV
The hype around Big Data continues to grow, and we are seeing some applications and use-cases to back it up. However, applying data science to the real world is still a nascent field in technology — so nascent that, according to Ryan Peterson, CTO of Data Republic Pty. Ltd., the most successful companies working with data ...
Beyond Bitcoin: The new blockchain apps changing commerce | #FinTech
There’s been a change on the conference scene lately. Where there used to be a new Bitcoin conference popping up at every turn, now blockchain conferences have become more frequent and popular. This last blockchain conference held in San Francisco drew attendance from heavy hitters Intel, Microsoft and IBM. According to Aldo Carrascoso, founder and ...
Show me the apps: Meet the new apps on the blockchain | #FinTech
It’s always about the applications, isn’t it? No matter what the new technology, however groundbreaking or innovative, the response from businesses and users always seems to be: Show me the apps. The Vanbex Group specializes in helping companies that utilize blockchain develop and market their services, products and applications. Lisa Cheng, founder of the Vanbex ...
