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The Most Common Big Data Pitfalls You Should Avoid

The Most Common Big Data Pitfalls You Should Avoid

Big Data strategies often don’t meet objectives due to implementation challenges. So how can you ensure your strategy will be successful? Here are the most common Big Data pitfalls you should avoid:

December 14, 2015 • 5 min read Data

Accelerate and Optimize Big Data and Hadoop

Accelerate and Optimize Big Data and Hadoop

Organizations trying to embark on the Big Data journey are often confronted with infrastructure challenges. Prasad Venkatachar shares testing results of a new Hadoop solution leveraging Cisco UCS servers and Fusion ioMemory™ from SanDisk.

May 13, 2016 • 9 min read Data

Turn Big Data into Fast Data Using Oracle NoSQL and Fusion ioMemory

Turn Big Data into Fast Data Using Oracle NoSQL and Fusion ioMemory

NoSQL database systems need to be cost effective so they can scale appropriately and deliver a good return on investment. Prasad Venkatachar compares the performance acceleration and consolidation cost benefits of Fusion ioMemory vs. hard disk drives.

October 23, 2015 • 7 min read Data

The Third Phase of Big Data

The Third Phase of Big Data

The demand for higher-capacity, higher-performing systems is driving us toward the third phase of the Big Data revolution.

May 4, 2015 • 6 min read Data

Why We Love Big Data

Why We Love Big Data

Valentine’s Day is coming up, and I have to profess my love for Big Data and the possibilities it opens for making this world a better one.

February 12, 2016 • 4 min read Data

15TB HDD – Taking Big Data Capacity to the Next Level

15TB HDD – Taking Big Data Capacity to the Next Level

Western Digital announces our 15TB Ultrastar DC HC620 Host-Managed SMR HDD. This technological achievement in Western Digital’s Ultrastar shingled magnetic recording and helium-sealed enterprise-class HDD provides the continued basis for rack-scale data growth expansion and improved TCO, helping to tackle critical challenges of big data growth.

October 24, 2018 • 7 min read Data

Big Data and Fast Data Create a Bifurcation of Technology

Big Data and Fast Data Create a Bifurcation of Technology

As the scale of data continues to increase, and the diversity of application workloads expand, the world will need new data storage technologies and architectures. “We needed to rethink how data is captured, preserved, accessed and transformed.” — Mike Cordano Data is now used in a variety of ways and these different ways create unique […]

October 11, 2017 • 2 min read Data