What is Docker and why use it?
What is Docker and why use it? by Bigstep Cloud Limited, November 2014. Docker is the “poster child” of the containerization movement but is it here to stay? Despite the buzz, many application developers...
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Gartner 2014 Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems
Gartner 2014 Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems 16 October 2014, Analyst(s): Donald Feinberg | Merv Adrian | Nick Heudecker The Operational Database Market in 2014 This graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger research...
“Big Data Security… Yeah, what about it?”
“Big Data Security… Yeah, what about it?” by Wilco van Ginkel, *Security, November 22, 2014 As with any new trend, technology or ‘anything disruptive’, security becomes a key question. Unfortunately, most of the time,...
Getting Up to Speed on Hadoop and Big Data
Getting Up to Speed on Hadoop and Big Data By Cynthia M. Saracco, Senior Solution Architect, IBM Silicon Valley Lab It’s a question I’ve often heard during my 4 years of working on Big...
Big Data Must Support Design of Data Driven Apps if it’s to fulfill its Promise
Big Data Must Support Design of Data Driven Apps if it’s to fulfill its Promise Allen Bonde, VP of product marketing & innovation at embedded analytics leader Actuate, believes Big Data will only develop...
Strata Spark Tsunami – Hadoop World, Part One
Strata Spark Tsunami – Hadoop World, Part One by Merv Adrian, Research VP, Information Management, Gartner, Inc. | October 31, 2014 | New York’s Javits Center is a cavernous triumph of form over function. Giant empty spaces...
AlignAlytics benchmarks Elasticsearch, sees 200% performance improvement
AlignAlytics benchmarks Elasticsearch, sees 200% performance improvement White paper, Bigstep, October 2014 Every so often we come across a use case that makes every hour of work put into our Full Metal Cloud worth it...
The Prescribed Value of Data over Time.
The Prescribed Value of Data over Time. by Anirudh Todi (Senior Software Engineer at Twitter) There is no dispute; data is growing exponentially…and it will continue to grow, both in volume and complexity. In...
(The Need for) A Global Resource Manager for Data Analytics Clusters
(The Need for) A Global Resource Manager for Data Analytics Clusters by Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Researcher at Microsoft Research The necessity to process large quantities of data has led to widespread adoption of data parallel...
Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems
Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems 16 October 2014 ID:G00261660 Analyst(s): Donald Feinberg, Merv Adrian, Nick Heudecker VIEW SUMMARY The operational DBMS market continues to grow, with innovative products and features being delivered by both...