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What Is Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)? Working, Architecture, and Commands

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The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) handles big data and scales Hadoop clusters to numerous nodes. The post What Is Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)? Working, Architecture, and Commands appeared first on.

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IBM Unveils New POWER8 Systems, Built for Big Data

Data Center Knowledge

IBM unveiled new Power Systems servers Wednesday, leveraging POWER8 processor technology and designed for a new era of big data and open innovation Read More. Big Data IBM'

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Are You Ready For Big Data?

The Accidental Successful CIO

CIOs need to understand what they are going to do with big data Image Credit: Merrill College of Journalism Press Releases. As a CIO, when we think about big data we are faced with a number of questions having to do with the importance of information technology that we have not had to deal with in the past.

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Big Data Roadmap – A roadmap for success with big data

Eric D. Brown

I’m regularly asked about how to get started with big data. My response is always the same: I give them my big data roadmap for success. Most organizations want to jump in a do something ‘cool’ with big data. Build a data lake (and utilize it). Big Data Roadmap – a guarantee?

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Top Considerations for Building an Open Cloud Data Lake

Data fuels the modern enterprise — today more than ever, businesses compete on their ability to turn big data into essential business insights. Increasingly, enterprises are leveraging cloud data lakes as the platform used to store data for analytics, combined with various compute engines for processing that data.

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White Paper: Three Big Data Blueprints

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Federal agencies have in many ways out on finding w enterprises and their leaders have been on the cutting edge of community efforts at big data, with most all agencies either executing on a comprehensive big data strategy or empowering technologist to explore and prove out possible solutions so a strategy can be developed.

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Big Data Doesn’t Require Big Systems

Eric D. Brown

I’ve written many times about big data and the benefits and challenges that come along with attempting to ‘do’ big data. The one thing I haven’t said much of is how easy it is to ‘do’ big data. It really is fairly straightforward and inexpensive to get started in the big data realm.

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