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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

CTOvision

The term “Big Data” has become synonymous with this evolution. But still, many of our customers continue to ask, “What is Big Data?”, “What are its use cases?”, Oracle, Teradata, IBM, SAP, Microsoft, EMC, etc). What is Big Data? This definition was published in an article entitled “What is Big Data?”

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What is a Database Administrator and What Do They Do All Day?

Tech Republic Big Data

A DBA is a technician skilled in SQL and very large databases who is responsible for managing database software, backup and recovery processes, data security, and storage and capacity planning.

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November 2014 Server StorageIO Update Newsletter

Storage IO Blog

Enjoy this edition of the Server and StorageIO update newsletter and watch for new tips, articles, StorageIO lab report reviews, blog posts, videos and podcasts along with in the news commentary appearing soon.

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EMC Evolves Enterprise Data Protection with Enhancements (Part I)

Storage IO Blog

During the recent EMCworld event there were some questions among attendees what about backup and data protection announcements (or lack there of)? Modernizing Data Protection Today EMC announced enhancements to its Backup Recovery Solutions [.].

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Part II: EMC Evolves Enterprise Data Protection with Enhancements

Storage IO Blog

This is the second part of a two-part series on recent EMC backup and data protection announcements. In addition to articulating their strategy for modernizing data protection (covered in part I here), EMC announced enhancements to Avamar, Data Domain, Mozy and Networker. Data protection storage [.].

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Why NoSQL Is The Wrong Choice For A CIO — Sometimes

The Accidental Successful CIO

In the new world of “big data” in which we find ourselves, clearly not all data is going to meet the ACID criteria. When we start to consider web and social media applications, we start to have to deal with data that is orders of magnitude larger than most standard corporate databases. CIOs everywhere are.

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Amazon Cloud - Becoming a Storm? - Social, Agile, and.

Social, Agile and Transformation

I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Oracle DB, DB2 - yup these are available. big data. (20). and business transformation.

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