While considering Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution versus a traditional on premise software application, several factors should be kept in mind at the time of calculating total cost of ownership and ROI. Both software providers and customers can be benefitted from the efficiency of the cloud's economic model. TO know about SaaS pricing, please go through the following link:
Facebook released Cassandra, its NoSQL, big data distributed data store to open source. It can power massive data sets quickly and reliably without compromising performance. Different new features and improvements are included in the latest version. To know more about Cassandra 2.0, follow Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's, article link:
http://www.zdnet.com/cassandra-2-0-the-next-generation-of-big-data-7000020237/
Digital technology has evolved largely over the last decade. It can change the future of a organization. For digitalizing businesses, companies should follow some necessary steps. To know more on the digitalization process of business, go through the article by Dion Hinchcliffe, an expert in IT and business strategy.
http://www.zdnet.com/businesses-have-digitized-but-not-transformed-7000027190/
The IT enterprise field is slowly going to a saturation point. But, this sector is still facing competition. To know more on the growth areas in IT sector, go through the article by Dion Hinchcliffe, an expert in IT and business strategy.
http://www.zdnet.com/the-enterprise-products-with-disruptive-potential-for-2014-7000027859/
Human element plays an important role in the application of big data. Though data science is based upon business analytics, it is different from business analytics. Data science collects data and other information from different systems and then asks many different questions. To know more about whether it is necessary to include data scientist when a company is deploying big data solutions or not, go through the article by Daniel Kusnetzky, software engineer and product manager in Kusnetzky group.
http://www.zdnet.com/the-human-element-is-critical-in-applying-big-data-7000028983/
Big data is one of the important buzzwords in technology world. Nowadays, in addition to traditional enterprise data, companies are collecting data from different sources. Though big data is being used in high pace, companies working with big data are only concerned about the best product. To know more impact of big data, go through the article by Natalie Gagliordi, ZDNet staff writer.
http://www.zdnet.com/the-impact-of-big-data-on-enterprise-apps-7000028994/
Though Red Hat, Ubuntu and Linux are rivals, yet all of them agree in one point - Docker, a container technology. Docker is potential as well as disruptive in different aspects. Now the question is- can containers with Docker be the next great revolution in virtualization and the cloud? To know the answer of this question, go through the article written by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, writer of technology.
http://www.zdnet.com/red-hat-ubuntu-and-docker-container-virtualization-goes-mainstream-7000028610/
Enterprise portals provide semi-personalized access to important applications from a single screen. Liferay ( a Los Angeles-based company), provides portal technology to organizations, is observing a shift in its business as social, mobile, analytics and cloud is becoming the new foundation of enterprise computing. Building an open source community around its portal platform will deliver more long-term dividends than short-term profits. To know more on this topic, go through the article by Joe McKendrik, author, consultant and speaker specializing in trends and developments.
OpenSSL is a software library which is used in everyday for proper functioning of internet. It is not only used for SSL by websites, but also for all sort of software with cryptographic need use it. OpenSSL is dependent more on API more than its OpenSSL library. Including both of this in the system may cause a risk for the major developers like Red Hat. For more information, go through the article written by Larry Seltzer, an expert in technology.
http://www.zdnet.com/is-openssl-secure-in-its-dominance-7000028644/
According to OpenStack user survey, Ubuntu Linux is the most popular OpenStack operating system. According to Mark Shuttleworth (founder of Canonical, Ubuntu's parent company), 55 percent of OpenStack operating systems are on Ubuntu. To know more about synchronization of Ubuntu and OpenStack, go through the article by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, writer about technology.
http://www.zdnet.com/openstacks-top-operating-system-ubuntu-linux-7000027360/
OpenStack, an extremely popular open source Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud program, has released its latest version: Icehouse. Approximately 350 new features and 2,902 bug fixes were added this time. The main focus was on testing, maturity, and stability. In addition, third-party continuous integration (CI) has resulted in 53 external systems testing OpenStack compatibility across broad sets of hardware and software configurations. Read more at:
http://www.zdnet.com/icehouse-new-openstack-cloud-arrives-7000028560/
With the introduction of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0, Red Hat has moved one step forward in OpenStack cloud system. This platform can be used in both public and private cloud. Some new features are also added in this version. To know more on the key features of this platform, go through the article written by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, writer about technology and the business of technology.
http://www.zdnet.com/red-hat-enterprise-linux-openstack-platform-4-0-is-here-7000024518/
According to Forrester principal analyst Mike Gualtieri, "Hadoop is not big data. It's a big-data technology. You can break down the siloes but Hadoop is also a framework for processing the data". So, proper handling of big data is very essential for any company. Hadoop can help in explaining corporate data by managing it across clusters of commodity hardware. Research shows that many of the big companies using Hadoop. To know more on the advantages of Hadoop, follow the article by Toby Wolpe, senior reporter at ZDNet in London:
http://www.zdnet.com/hadoops-rise-why-you-dont-need-petabytes-for-a-big-data-opening-7000028282/
Teradata launched a technology called QueryGrid. It aims to extract analytical data from multiple systems storing, both big and little data. QueryGrid can bridge the division between data warehouses and big data. To know the model of QueryGrid, follow the article by Larry Dignan, Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet. - See more at:
http://www.zdnet.com/teradata-launches-querygrid-one-workflow-for-big-little-data-7000028044/
How good is methodology when it comes to innovation? One key reason for going Agile is that it enables people to be creative and come up with ideas. With Agile, people are given freedom - but they need to understand what to do with it, as well as what they are expected to produce with it. There are certain challenges that makes Agile difficult to implement in the beginning but it will bring productivity in the long run. To know more about the challenges met, follow the article by Rebecca Leitch, writer in ESI International.
Want to know more about future car! The car of the future is going to drive itself, brake itself, park itself and it will be a part of a worldwide communication system which will be based on 4G. It will gather and communicate data. It will be more like a Facebook-style personalized experience to drivers. Gil Golan, director of GM's Advanced Technical Center (ATC) in Israel, has also come up with a prototype of the future car. GM is aggressively pursuing the smart car market. To know more details on General Motor's future vision, go through the article by David Shamah, writer about Israeli technology.
"This is the dirty secret of the analytics world - that there are so many errors" - Velamakanni, CEO, Fractal Analytics. Company politics, bad data and inefficient analysis are affecting many organizations, leading to some wrong conclusions. To know more about this aspect, follow the article by Toby Wolpe, senior reporter at ZDNet in London:
Horton Networks is giving an effort to fit Hive to work with the component that frees Hadoop from the tyranny of batch processing in order to bring Hadoop more into enterprise mainstream. With the release of Horton Networks Data platform 2.1, the company has completed that Hive interactive query capability, known as Stinger Phase 3 - and is simultaneously releasing it for both the Windows and Linux platforms. To know more about this big release, follow the article by Andrew J. Brust, a developer, consultant and entrepreneur in the software industry:
http://www.zdnet.com/hortonworks-announces-data-platform-2-1-7000027949/
The two open-source software companies, Red Hat and Horton Networks are aiming at speeding up enterprise big data Apache Hadoop projects. The two firms unveiled the beta of Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) combined with Red Hat Storage, which is designed to give companies a unified storage pool for all Hadoop workloads. They also announced the integration of HDP with Red Hat JBoss Data Visualization, enabling Hadoop to work with existing data sources including warehouses, SQL and NoSQL databases, on premise and cloud apps and flat and XML files. To know more on this aspect, go through the article by Toby Wolpe, senior reporter at ZDNet:
http://www.zdnet.com/red-hat-and-hortonworks-unveil-hadoop-big-data-collaboration-7000026154/
The database market is in need of a big change" - Max Schireson, CEO, Mongo DB. The database layer which is being used, was designed in 1970 with a different set of requirements. Datasets in those days were smaller and more uniform, and development processes are more waterfall with requirements. As change was inevitable, Mongo DB has brought that change in database market and it will become much more functional, faster, robust and resilient in coming days. To know more about the change in the database market, go through the article of Toby Wolpe, senior reporter at ZDNet in London:
http://www.zdnet.com/mongodb-chief-why-the-clocks-ticking-for-relational-databases-7000026967/
