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Big Data: Hadoop 2.0's YARN Framework enables Real-Time Data Analysis

By Dick Weisinger

Hadoop was originally developed primarily as a web crawler for batch indexing the content of web sites.  Big Data analytics applications have adopted Hadoop, but because of its batch nature of the MapReduce algorithm, it isn’t good at interactively querying…

Cloud Computing: Offshore Services Pressured by the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

Public Cloud services are expected to increase 18 percent in 2013 to $131 billion and to then grow to $180+ billion by 2015 predicts Gartner. Cloud services are expected to pressure traditional offshore service providers.  Gartner suggests that service providers…

Cloud Computing: Sequestration Stalls Federal IT Budgets in 2013

By Dick Weisinger

Sequestration has hit federal budgets this year, resulting in budgets for 2013 that have been basically flat.  A report from IDC expects that federal IT budgets will begin to grow again in 2014, and spending on the cloud is expected…

Cloud Computing: Worries Persist about Operational Failure and Hidden Costs

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud computing offers numerous advantages over on-premise alternatives, such as reduction of IT resources, lower start-up costs, easier scalability, and flexible provisioning.  But while a recent whitepaper by Research In Action found that 81 percent of businesses are already or…

Big Data: NIH Funds the Use of Big Data in Biomedical Research

By Dick Weisinger

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced funding aimed at developing Big Data analytic techniques for use with biomedical data.  The funding will be $24 million for each of the next four years and will be used to establish…