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...
Why the Fast Data world needs a proven and mature In-Memory Data Fabric backed by the Apache Software Foundation
Why the Fast Data world needs a proven and mature In-Memory Data Fabric backed by the Apache Software Foundation. By Nikita Ivanov , CTO of GridGain, on November 3, 2014 Much of what human beings experience as...
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...
NoSQL meets Industrial Mass Data
NoSQL meets Industrial Mass Data by Timo Klingenmeier, inmation GmbH & Co. KG October 31, 2014 I am writing this whitepaper at the near end of a two-year software product development cycle. It is...
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...