What Hadoop Is.
What Hadoop Isn't.
by Mark Madsen
The Hadoop stack is a data processing platform. It combines elements of databases, data integration tools and parallel coding environments into a new and interesting mix. The problem with the IT market today is that it distorts the view of Hadoop by looking at it as a replacement for one of these technologies.
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Product Launch X, Christmas...
and Other Well-known Spikes
by Adrian Bridgwater
Do chief information officers really prepare and provision their datacentre backbones especially for Christmas? Do CIOs honestly talk to systems architects, software development team leaders and individual programmers about the festive season and plan for an additional data burden?
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Enabling Self-Service Access and Exploration of Big Data
Dec. 11 @ 4 ET
Live Webcast
As the information landscape expands with all kinds of Big Data, businesses are searching for ways to unite their traditional analytics with this new source of insight. One ambitious approach involves federating access to multiple data sources, even across various operating systems. The idea is to take analytic processing to the data, then intelligently assemble the results for a business user. Could this be the long-awaited alternative to data virtualization? Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to hear veteran Analyst Robin Bloor explain how federated access to data sources can pave the way for a truly integrated data fabric.
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Time to Face the Music:
TARP Update and the Fiscal Cliff
Dec. 12 @ Noon ET
Live Webcast
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The implementation of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) turned a lot of heads, not so much because the government was offering financial assistance, but because it did so at such an enormous scale. Now in its third year, many are left wondering: how successful has the program been and what unforeseen consequences emerged because of it? Register for this episode of Federal Spending to hear former TARP regulator Amy Poster review the program's successes and shortcomings.
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