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If you’re involved with big data in 2020, then it will be hard to avoid the cloud, which has become the de-facto standard platform for storing and processing vast amounts of data. Read more…
As an online lending marketplace, LendingTree is totally dependent on the Internet. So when one of the servers that funnels sales leads into the company went down a couple of years ago, the company had a serious problem on its hands. Read more…
Mail-order services, or what a cloud-enabled industry calls “subscription box” services, have become all the rage for everything from fine wine to pet food. Consumers can also order Kansas City steaks online, but a partnership between a startup and Microsoft has yielded a data-driven approach to subscription box sales that allows one entrepreneur to better track beef, poultry and pork shipments, determine which of the 21 different varieties are selling and how quickly they go from freezer to dinner table. Read more…
Cloud storage is growing fast as companies look to take advantage of low cost and flexible storage options for terabytes and petabytes of data. But for all the convenience of cloud storage, sometimes it’s just better when data is closer. Read more…
Every company wants the independence to do what they wish with their data. That’s one of the first assumptions underlying this whole big data movement. But depending on where and how a business stores its data — Read more…
Organizations that want to run a NoSQL database in the cloud but don’t want to worry about managing or tuning the database may want to check out RavenDB Cloud, a new database service unveiled today by RavenDB. Read more…
Deploying a database to the cloud? You’re not alone, according to Gartner, which says rapid growth in cloud deployments of databases over the past two years have turned clouds into the default modality and relegated on-premise database deployments to legacy status. Read more…
DataStax kicked off its inaugural user conference this morning by announcing an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) version of the Apache Cassandra database. Dubbed Constellation, the offering will enable customers to get up and running with managed Cassandra deployments for hybrid and multi-cloud environments in just a few clicks. Read more…
Whether you’re interested in using machine learning to build intelligent chatbots, wrangling big data flows, or deploying scale-out databases in the cloud, there was a little something for everybody unveiled today at Microsoft Build 2019. Read more…
Microsoft has upgraded its open source analytics services running on Azure with a new version of Hadoop incorporating enhancements of Apache Hive and other open source analytics frameworks.
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