Although Amazon Web Services (AWS) has emerged as the public cloud market leader, Microsoft Azure is working hard to catch up in the enterprise technology sector. According to “The New Normal: Cloud, DevOps, and SaaS Analytics Tools Reign in The Modern App Era,” a Sumo Logic poll of 235 IT companies (specifically those with a minimum of 500 employees), Azure has become more... Read More
Data Warehouse Commoditization and the Cloud
Big data technology solutions for businesses are some of the most exciting tools that companies have ever had to optimize their understanding of their customers. While many businesses still use traditional market research efforts to collect data on their customers, there are a treasure trove of new ways to analyze the information they retrieve. Amazon and Microsoft are just two of the... Read More
Microsoft Announces New Commitment to Apache Spark
Microsoft will soon be starting a commitment with open source framework, Apache Spark. The technology giant began working with Spark last year. Now the company plans to launch several Spark services and even announced that Spark would power the on-premises version of Hadoop’s R Server, which has become popular for big data analysis. Additionally, the cloud version of R Server will be... Read More
Is Big Data a Big Headache for the Music Industry?
When digital music technology entered the scene, it was done in the hopes that it would provide better, faster access to music, while making sure that everyone involved got paid. Unfortunately, things didn’t happen as planned, and now the music industry is facing an issue with big data. The biggest issue the music industry is facing in terms big data comes from streaming services. While they... Read More
Big Data Advancements in the Hybrid Cloud
Business leaders are using the cloud to give them the ability to change the resources they need on demand. This enables them to increase their resources to experiment with data sets and then dial back the resources once the experiment is done without any complications. Furthermore, organizations who are on the leading edge are going even further—they’re using big data for even more focused... Read More