Technology & IT
The rapid growth of the Big Data ecosystem has pushed the frontiers of technology, and our expectations, further than ever thought possible.

Big data processing platforms: What’s next?
“Big Data” has been a major technology trend over the past years, and buzz around the term continuing strong today. By now, it is widely accepted that the “Big” in Big Data does not refer only to the terabytes and petabytes of data to be processed, but more broadly to

Three Reasons Corporations Fail at Big Data
A recent study by KPMG revealed that executives do see the value in data and analytics, but 85% face challenges in implementing the right solution to analyze and interpret their existing data. This is the first article in a series of articles aimed at highlighting best practices to overcome the

What is Hadoop and how does it work?
Introducing Hadoop In the Big data world the sheer volume, velocity and variety of data renders most ordinary technologies ineffective. Thus in order to overcome their helplessness companies like Google and Yahoo! needed to find solutions to manage all the data that their servers were gathering in an efficient, cost

The Three Big Data Waves breaking now
Big data is overwhelmingly powerful, overwhelmingly omnipresent, and most of all, overwhelming to grasp. As such, three factors, three big data waves are currently rolling into our ports. Big data is to be generated, gathered, and aggregated, accumulated, produced, analyzed, and understood at ever increasing speeds. With the ‘internet of