Businesses around the world are set to hugely increase their investments in hardware and networking solutions to support big data analytics operations in the coming years, as there is a growing recognition that more robust solutions will be required in order to cope with the huge influx of data. Research by Technavio predicts that between…
A few years ago, one of the emerging thoughts in the data storage sector was the idea of 'data gravity' – the concept that the information a business generates has mass that affects the services and applications around it. The more data firms create, the more 'pull' it has on surrounding parts of the organisation….
As the UK's largest mail carrier, dealing with billions of items every year, Royal Mail is a company well-used to managing huge volumes of information. But when it comes to improving how it handles its own digital data, the business is still in the rollout stage. Speaking at a recent Hadoop Summit in Dublin, director…
Watch how the Kognitio Analytical Platform provides highly scalable, in-memory analytical software that delivers ultra fast, high-concurrency SQL access to large and varied data using low-cost commodity hardware or Hadoop. When your growing user community wants ever faster query responses for complex workloads – they want unequivocal raw compute power by harenssing lots of CPUs…
For many retail banks, the task of regaining consumer trust in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008-09 will be a difficult and ongoing challenge. With the sector still viewed with suspicion by many people, presenting a more personal face and improving customer service levels will be a high priority. It was noted by…