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When it becomes part of the daily life and standard infrastructure for IT, will big data decline and fall? When all hype is gone, what will be left? Just data.
In-memory data grids resolve some key challenges for implementing operational intelligence
Hortonworks filled for IPO at a fairly early stage for a company in their position. But this also puts them in a unique position to raise their marketing profile, and benefit from Wall Street’s appetite for the big data market.
Former Microsoft CEO makes donation to expand Harvard's computer science department
Amazon's new Aurora cloud database service is MySQL 5.6-compatible, self-replicating, and self-scaling
Microsoft's Azure StorSimple backup and DR solution offers compelling Azure integrations, but the high price and absence of local management hold it back
Statistical languages are a great fit for big data but may be too specialized for general programming
Statistical languages offer a great fit for big data, but due to their specific use cases, they're unlikely to catch to up to generalized stalwarts like Java and C
Even well intentioned data mining can leave a damaging trail, so what's a developer to do?
You already know that gobs of data about you are strewn across the Internet. The scary part is when they put it all together