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Cloud ERP: Businesses Ready to Move Mission Critical to the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

70 percent of businesses say that the benefits of cloud computing are enticing them into considering a move of at least some of their mission-critical applications to the cloud within a year. This is happening despite nagging concerns these same…

High Performance Computing: Companies use Big Computers to Process Big Data

By Dick Weisinger

Supercomputers — computers with pricetags of more than $500,000 — are being deployed at a healthy pace. Businesses are investing in these fast computers in an effort to spark innovation. A recent report by IDC in high performance computing (HPC)…

Big Data: Interacting with Hadoop 2 Data Using Standard ANSI SQL

By Dick Weisinger

Cascading is an Apache-licensed application framework  for building rich data processing and machine learning applications that run on Hadoop.  Cascading applications are built using a simple API that can be called from any JVM-based language.  Over the past five years, it has…

Big Data: Using the Best Tool for the Job

By Dick Weisinger

Increasingly, big data management is being handled by a variety of tools, a sort of ‘polyglot‘ or ‘hybrid data ecosystem‘ approach. Rather than being restricted to using a single tool like Hadoop, a hybrid data ecosystem uses tool sets from…

Enterprise Software: Aggressive Competition Pushing Enterprise Software Prices Down

By Dick Weisinger

Price competition has driven prices of enterprise hardware and software down by as much as 11 percent since 2012, and prices are down 17 percent since the end of 2011, Synergy Research Group found. Jeremy Duke, President of Synergy Research…