Data Management
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Why Big Data Means a Big Year for Hadoop
Jan 27, 2012: Companies from IBM to Amazon are turning to Hadoop to manage the surge in data that needs storing. Our CEO Michael Friedenberg says the buzz around Hadoop is no joke.
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Fundamental Oracle flaw revealed
Jan 18, 2012: A design decision made by Oracle architects long ago may have painted some of Oracle's largest customers into a corner. Patches have arrived, but how much will they correct?
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The road to Hadoop, Part 1: Skill sets and training
Jan 07, 2012: Big data is a concept that's been as widely hyped as cloud computing, and perhaps just as misunderstood in regards to its capabilities and limitations. One of the aspects of big data that is not clearly understood is how existing databases can be used with data storage engines that are non-relational in nature. What's involved in moving data from a relational database management system (RDBMS) to distributed systems? And, perhaps more of interest to IT staff, what's the best way to learn about these big data systems, to determine the best way to use them in an organization?
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EMC's Greenplum goes big in data analytics
Dec 08, 2011: The Greenplum division of EMC is building a single data analytics platform that can crunch both structured and unstructured data and give a broad range of users the tools to study an enterprise's information.
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Strategies for Pruning Data in the Cloud
Nov 10, 2011: In terrestrial systems, you don't think about disk space. In the clouds, you have to, if you don't it will cost you.
