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Big Data: Velocity of Hadoop Adoption Tepid

By Dick Weisinger

The Hadoop hype may be petering out based on the results of a Gartner study.  Gartner found that only about one quarter of businesses say that they are doing anything at all with Hadoop, including piloting and just experimenting.  11…

Container Technology: Startup Datawise.io Simplifies On-Premise Management of a Clustered Container Environment

By Dick Weisinger

Container technology is hot.  Docker is hot.  Containers provide a way to package up and encapsulate everything needed by a single application to run. Containers basically contain the entire runtime environment and all application dependencies, and because of that, containers…

Open Source: Default Base for Software Development

By Dick Weisinger

For nine years the Black Duck and North Bridge Open Source Software survey has reviewed usage statistics of open source software across organizations.  In early years the survey results were eye-opening and surprising.  A decade ago few thought that open source…

Enterprise Content Management (ECM): AIIM sees Major Disruption as Businesses Move Content to the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

A recent report by AIIM finds the state of the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) industry under disruption and the technology will be dramatically different in a “post-ECM” era by 2020.  Much of the report focuses on the general move of…

Big Data: Spark, Storm and Now DataTorrent Compete for Open Source Real-time Streaming Data in Hadoop

By Dick Weisinger

There’s a new option available for open-source real-time data processing in Hadoop: DataTorrent.  After roughly two years since the introduction of DataTorrent, the platform has now moved to an open-source Apache 2.0 license to allow it to better compete against rival…