5 Reasons Your Data May Become Unavailable

What stands in the way of high availability and your data? Keep reading for a list of common reasons why data may become unavailable. Highly available data means data that is accessible virtually without interruption. To be fully accessible, your data needs to be reachable in the sense that the infrastructure and software hosting it […]

Mainframe Real-time and Streaming Analytics

If you analyze data as soon as it is created – in other words, if you perform real-time analytics – you get much more value out of it than if you wait until the data is a bit older. Sure, data analytics are still useful if the data is a day or a week old. If […]

The Evolution of Hadoop

When Hadoop was initially released in 2006, its value proposition was revolutionary—store any type of data, structured or unstructured, in a single repository free of limiting schemas, and process that data at scale across a compute cluster built of cheap, commodity servers. Gone were the days of trying to scale up a legacy data warehouse […]

Overcoming Three Major Challenges of Moving Data from the Mainframe to Hadoop

When it comes to digging value out of the wealth of data many companies have at their disposal, Hadoop is the platform of choice. It is built on a number of capable, sophisticated, and well-supported open source tools that are specifically designed to support big data analytics. But while Hadoop’s popularity continues to climb, there […]

10 Completely Free Resources for Sharpening Your Skills in Hadoop

Taking on a big data initiative isn’t cheap. If you have to add in Hadoop training costs for your entire IT and big data teams, the price tag can expand rapidly. Or, you can just take advantage of one of the numerous free Hadoop training resources available. Here are some options: 1. CognitiveClass.ai Most programs […]

Testing the Waters: How to Get a Hadoop Data Lake Set Up Right

Researching how to leverage big data quickly yields results about data lakes. Essentially, a data lake is merely a data storage solution that allows you to store large quantities of data in its original, unaltered format. By nature, it accepts all forms of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. While a data lake can be built […]