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Why CIOs Need to Understand Apache Cassandra

CIO Business Intelligence

By Jeff Carpenter You might have heard of Apache Cassandra, the open-source NoSQL database. Nothing on the market could handle the hundreds of millions of users that were on the platform at peak times, spread across tens of thousands of servers spread across data centers around the world.

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Two Reasons Why Apache Cassandra Is the Database for Real-Time Applications

CIO Business Intelligence

Keeping it at acceptable levels requires an underlying data architecture that can handle the demands of globally deployed real-time applications. Even as the world has gotten smaller, exactly where your data lives still makes a difference in terms of speed and latency. Cassandra is both horizontally scalable and data-center aware. .

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The new challenges of scale: What it takes to go from PB to EB data scale

CIO Business Intelligence

Before you can even think about analyzing exabytes worth of data, ensure you have the infrastructure to store more than 1000 petabytes! And having efficient, maximized use of your data is crucial when it comes to fraud, cybersecurity, applied observability, and intelligent operations (like manufacturing, telco, and utilities).

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How Australia became the test bed for tech regulation

The Verge

Because we felt that, back then, there was software that cost $100,000 to install, and there was free software, open-source, but there was really nothing in between. And then one day, we got a fax from American Airlines. And I asked Mike, had he been working with American Airlines, and he said no. And neither had I.