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Cloud Computing: Cloud Computing Workload Volumes Expected to Surpass Traditional Ones in Two Years

By Dick Weisinger

The growth in the flow of data across networks has been phenomenal. Cisco predicts that zettabyte threshold will be crossed in 2016 with 1.3 zettabytes of network traffic data flowing across the Internet.  But the data flowing back and forth

Cloud Computing: Cloudera's Impala Seeks to Replace Hive for Hadoop

By Dick Weisinger

Impala, a new open-source Apache-licensed tool has recently been added by Cloudera to the Hadoop toolset ecosystem.  Inspired by Google’s Dremel, Impala is a real-time query engine for Hadoop. Hadoop already has a tool called Hive which provides some amount

Cloud Computing: Open Source Options See Low Number of Adopters amid Worries of Maturity of Technology

By Dick Weisinger

There’s been a lot of buzz about platforms like OpenStack that create an Open Source platform for building a cloud.  While interest in cloud computing in general is hyped incredibly high, surprisingly, a report from Zenoss finds that there hasn’t

Data Centers: Going Green to Improve Costs, Efficiency and Public Image

By Dick Weisinger

Data centers are increasingly going ‘green’.  The annual global market for green data centers is projected to grow to $45.4 billion by 2016 from the current $17.1 billion at a growth rate of 28 percent. Eric Woods, senior analyst at Pike

Cloud Computing: Businesses Move Content Into the Cloud to Enable Better Collaboration

By Dick Weisinger

Many companies are creating plans for moving their documents and internal content to the cloud.  In fact, based on the AIIM report Content in the Cloud — making the right decision, 42 percent of companies have already developed plans to