Cisco, EMC, VMware unite behind big data, cloud training initiative
Network World – As the IT silos come down, tech pros need to beef up their skills to stay relevant and maximize the business benefits of cloud computing, virtualization, unified networking and big data, according to Cisco and EMC, which have teamed to …
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Big Data Forum 2012 highlights Russian customers' issues of managing and …
Industry observers point to the following signs indicating that an organization is facing an issue with big data processing: the data volumes exceed physical scale-up capabilities of the organization's IT infrastructure; there is a perceived need for …
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Big Data Initiative Or Big Government Boondoggle?
As a taxpayer, it pains me to see so many examples of apparently duplicative research, staff, and infrastructure. The big data initiative was prompted in part by a December 2010 report by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology …
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