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Hadoop: here today, gone tomorrow?
MapR and Cloudera are in trouble: what does the future of Hadoop look like?
Darwin, Disruption and why Business needs to be Mutable
We live in exponential times, what Darwin didn’t say, disruption, reinvention and why we talk Mutable Business not digital transformation.
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Logicalis take pragmatic, business oriented approach to IoT
Logicalis strong heritage in datacentres, networking and managed services, allied to IP in IoT platforms provide a strong underpinning for IoT Implementations.
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Bloor TV
Bloor TV brings analyst insights and reports to life in a new, easily consumable way with a range of live stream and video programmes.
Bloor TV brings analyst insights and reports to life in a new, easily consumable way with a range of live stream and video programmes.
ArchOps
A combination of tools, practices and cultural philosophies, that increases an organisation’s ability to design, implement and manage agile IT infrastructure.
A combination of tools, practices and cultural philosophies, that increases an organisation’s ability to design, implement and manage agile IT infrastructure.
Data Movement
Data movement does what its name suggests and there are multiple ways of doing so and of avoiding do so.
Data movement does what its name suggests and there are multiple ways of doing so and of avoiding do so.
Trust in Data
There are various data tools that enable us to trust, specifically data profiling, data quality and data preparation.
There are various data tools that enable us to trust, specifically data profiling, data quality and data preparation.
Operational Databases
An operational database is designed to run the day-to-day operations or transactions of your business.
An operational database is designed to run the day-to-day operations or transactions of your business.
Data Discovery and Catalogues
Both data discovery and data cataloguing are designed to allow you to know what you have and how it is related.
Both data discovery and data cataloguing are designed to allow you to know what you have and how it is related.
Graph Databases
Graph databases store data in terms of entities and the relationships between entities.
Graph databases store data in terms of entities and the relationships between entities.
Data Warehousing
A data warehouse is a database implementation that supports the storage and analysis of historic data, with the aim of understanding what happened in the past or predicting what will happen in the future.
A data warehouse is a database implementation that supports the storage and analysis of historic data, with the aim of understanding what happened in the past or predicting what will happen in the future.
Blockchain
A blockchain is a distributed ledger, implemented across many servers, consisting of a continuously growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked across the whole network and secured using cryptography.
A blockchain is a distributed ledger, implemented across many servers, consisting of a continuously growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked across the whole network and secured using cryptography.
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
At its simplest it is using computers to run algorithms that give them the ability to undertake reasoning that was previously seen as the preserve of humans.
At its simplest it is using computers to run algorithms that give them the ability to undertake reasoning that was previously seen as the preserve of humans.
Endpoint Detection and Response
EDR technologies vastly improve visibility into not only which endpoints are on the network, but also their security posture, allowing for advanced threat detection and response to counter even the most sophisticated threats.
EDR technologies vastly improve visibility into not only which endpoints are on the network, but also their security posture, allowing for advanced threat detection and response to counter even the most sophisticated threats.
Security Response Orchestration
Security response orchestration arms organisations with the tools that they need to automate responses where possible, supplementing this with human knowledge and experience where required.
Security response orchestration arms organisations with the tools that they need to automate responses where possible, supplementing this with human knowledge and experience where required.
Database technology for the 2020s
Multi-model databases are becoming increasingly popular. This paper discusses these in general, and Redis in particular.
Hybrid real-time data processing
There are multiple ways in which databases that support real-time operational/transactional and analytic processing may be implemented. This report compares representative samples of each.
VoltDB
VoltDB uses a shared-nothing architecture to achieve database parallelism, with both data and processing distributed across all the CPU cores within the servers composing a VoltDB cluster.
TigerGraph
TigerGraph is a native graph parallel database that is available both in on-premises and cloud versions.
Redis Enterprise
Redis is an in-memory, multi-model database platform.
NuoDB
NuoDB looks relational and leverages SQL but isn’t relational under the covers.
Neo4j
Neo4j, is a labelled, property graph database with a native engine that is targeted at operational and hybrid operational/transactional and analytic use cases.
MongoDB
MongoDB is an open source, distributed, NoSQL document-oriented database that stores JSON documents.
MemSQL
MemSQL is a scale-out distributed, relational database, with a lock-free architecture that supports both row and column storage.
MariaDB Platform X3
MariaDB Platform X3 is an offering that combines the transactional capabilities of MariaDB TX with the analytic functionality provided by MariaDB AX.
GridGain Systems
GridGain started life as an in-memory data grid. The option to act as an in-memory database means that it is now, technically, an IMC platform rather than just a data grid.
DataStax Enterprise
DataStax Enterprise is a distributed NoSQL database, using CQL, that is oriented towards (though not exclusive to) cloud and hybrid-cloud architectures.