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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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VMworld 2013 Day 1 Keynote

Scott Lowe

As we are moving into the mobile/cloud era, Pat thinks that four trends are shaping this era: social, mobile, cloud, and big data. He pays particular attention to mission-critical apps on VMware, calling out Oracle, SAP, and others. Some of the next new services coming to vCHS include: DRaaS (Disaster Recovery as a Service).

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Fountainhead: Correcting computing's wrongs - road to recovery?

Fountainhead

Should they all fail, such as in a disaster, the entire configuration, down to each servers I/O, networks, VLANs, etc., Presto - instant Disaster Recovery (DR). an SAP installation where some servers are virtual, but with native DBs as well). Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Syndications.

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