Technology Rates of Change
I read a quote in an article recently: "Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons."- Popular Mechanics, 1949 It shows how quickly technology progresses...
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According to recent data from the US and UK, the prices of solid-state drives (SSD) have more than halved in the past year. Meanwhile, prices of spinning hard drives (HDD) have increased significantly...
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Live Blog – Mark Fazackerley of MicroStrategy Presentation – A Platform to...
Mark Fazackerley, the MicroStrategy VP of Australia and New Zealand is presenting at the Teradata Big Data Summit 2013 at Crown in Melbourne. Mark is presenting on the MicroStrategy Platform to Support...
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The Lessons of Big Data During 2013
As 2013 quickly draws to a close, I thought I’d look back and pick three things I’ve heard/read/discussed about Big Data, in no particular order… Data Science for the Masses The interest in Big Data...
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What You Need to Know About the Teradata Hadoop Solution
The recently announced Forrester Wave: Big Data Hadoop Solutions Q1 2014 has Teradata positioned as a leader. This recognises Teradata as a vendor providing a clear Hadoop strategy with the Teradata...
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Securing Hadoop the Easy Way with Teradata SQL-H
It is well documented that security for Hadoop has its shortcomings. Hadoop can run in either ‘non-secure’ mode in which no authentication is required or ‘secure’ mode in which authentication is...
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