Are You Prepared for the 5G Data Crush?

The introduction of fifth generation wireless technology in 2019 and 2020 will provide a big speed boost to mobile networks, on the order of 100x or more. All that extra bandwidth (not to mention lower latencies) will be Read more…

Built to Last: Laying a Framework for IoT with Enterprise Architecture

IoT is massive -- both in opportunity for business and volume of data created. Over 90% of the data in the world has been created in the past two years, and the current output of data is roughly 2.5 quintillion bytes a d Read more…

MapD Partners on Network Analytics Platform

High-flying analytics software vendor MapD Technologies is partnering with Canadian mobile data vendor Tutela Technologies on an analytics platform that provides real-time metrics on mobile network performance and device Read more…

How Super Bowl 50 Will Feed Our Super Appetite…for Data

The Super Bowl is a lot of things to a lot of people. It's the championship game for the National Football League, a showcase for clever ads from Madison Avenue, and for the rest of us, an excuse to splurge on food and d Read more…

InfiniBand to Shoulder Next Generation Big Data Burden

With the increasing usage of social media websites, geographical positioning, web communication and cloud for content storage and delivery, there is a real need for scalable, higher bandwidth and faster response network fabric in a website’s data centers. As Gilad Shainer from Mellanox argues in this piece, for server and storage communications, InfiniBand offers.... Read more…

Mellanox Bridges Network Performance Divide

This week high performance network vendor, Mellanox, released VMA 6.0, which is targeted at industries in need of ultra-low latencies, including financial services. In light of the new markets emerging in the wake of the big data explosion, however, their message could be finding uptapped sources of new business in 2012. Read more…