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How a cloud-first enterprise application strategy boosts speed and scale for your business

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud-first applications support a manageable OpEx cost model, metered like a utility, as opposed to requiring significant upfront capital investments in infrastructure and software licenses. This type of functionality and scale can be a game-changer for mission-critical applications such as SAP. More data-driven insights.

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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

CTOvision

In the text below, I examine an on-premise Hadoop ecosystem as a general purpose Big Data solution in relation to alternative commercial purpose-built storage technologies (-e.g. Oracle, Teradata, IBM, SAP, Microsoft, EMC, etc). It may be difficult to determine the exact point at which you should leverage one over the other.

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