Tag: connectivity
The Big Data Goldmine
Did you know that this year the amount of global digital data generated is expected to reach about 2.7 zettabytes? That number represents a 48 percent increase from 2011. Most people have trouble comprehending the size of a terabyte, let alone a zettabyte. But those of us in the biz are finding...
The Top 5 Data Connectivity Concerns Affecting Financial Companies
In the financial services industry, thousands of users regularly rely on the ability to accurately and quickly access data in order to run business-critical reports and amend databases. It’s for this reason that it’s imperative to business success and user efficiency that financial institutions have...
Trends in Big Connectivity: Big Data, Hadoop, and the Mysteries of “Dark Data”
The concepts of Big Data have been around well before the introduction of the Hadoop file system. Back when I was in college (ancient times, according to my family) and pursuing my degree in astrophysics, I wrote a thesis on ‘stellar spectroscopy’ – researching the spectrum of data from...
Virtualization - the Wave of the Future (and Present)
There have been many relatively recent dramatic improvements in hardware. Factors such as processor speed/design and network capacity appear to be making shortages of hardware resources very pre-2011. Not to mention falling prices that appear to not have hit bottom just yet. But with improving...
Do you have “Sanford & Son” Architecture?
Over the years, companies can build up some pretty junky architecture, cobbled together from a combination of existing bulk load tools such as the BCP Utility, dbload or FTP servers. Not to mention, compressing, FTP-ing, converting, shredding, parsing, optimizing, loading and validating bulk data is...
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