This week, a wealth of industry experts shared their insights into the changing landscape of big data with us. On Monday, Chairman of MBN Solutions Paul Forrest shared his thoughts on how big data can become “the bridge” to success. On Tuesday, Jamal Khawaja informed us why we’ve never been

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Yiftach Shoolman is CTO & Co-Founder at Redis Labs, the largest commercial supporter of Redis with more than 70,000 databases under management and 3,700+ paying customers. Follow him on Twitter.   Prediction #1 – The Demand for In-Memory Databases Will Increase The expectation from modern apps is to provide a

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An impressive number of businesses dive into social media without a clear vision of what they’re trying to achieve. It’s a sprint to sign up for Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and other networking websites without considering and determining their impact on the business. There’s no point being there if you aren’t sure how to use social media to

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Who really did it? The USA’s Federal Bureau of Investigation says it has strong evidence that it is in fact the DPRK, more commonly known worldwide as North Korea, carried out the cyber-attacks that have left Sony, its officials, actors, top executives and honestly, the world at large, reeling. Revelations