What will you be doing the first week of April? As most people recover from their Easter candy sugar rush and April Fools hijinks, we’ll be making our way to Silicon Valley for the Cloud Connect Conference – a relatively new conference that...
If you follow IT news, you know that January is the time of predictions. Everyone has thoughts on what’s to come in the realms of Big Data, Cloud, SaaS, analytics – you name it! If it has implications in the business world, someone’s making a prediction about it.
I recently read one such piece...
What’s preventing the enterprise from adapting Hadoop for all of their Big Data needs? This is a question that I answered in a recent contributed piece in NetworkWorld:
“In short, companies don't have...
With 2013 fast approaching, everyone is speculating about what the New Year will bring, especially when it comes to the IT industry. Here at DataDirect, we didn’t want to miss out on the forecasting fun, so we took a moment to reflect on the events of 2012 and look at what can be expected in 2013....
2012 has certainly been an exciting year! London hosted the XXX Olympic games, the U.S. had an election, Hurricane Sandy struck the East Coast, ‘The Hobbit’ is coming out soon, and that’s just the beginning! It’s been an interesting year for the IT world as well, and as we close in on 2013, I wanted...