To date, the IT industry has leveraged an indirect sales channel made up of distributors, resellers and system integrators to sell…
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New strategies in consumer-media cloud storage
Apple has sought to use the cloud to heighten the value of its tightly woven ecosystem by integrating its own cloud-based…
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Cloud computing and trickle-down analytics
Some people predict 2013 will be the year Hadoop becomes mainstream. Such an occurrence will only be possible if the technology…
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PaaS market accelerators, 2012–2013
In recent months many have focused on PaaS solutions as an enabling technology to bring more control to the development and…
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Communications-as-a-Service: opportunities for businesses
This report will examine some basics of CaaS technology, including what it does and some commonly known applications that use it.…
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Cloud computing infrastructure: 2012 and beyond
Cloud computing continues to change and shape the technology industry, and these days discussions are about more than simply reorganizing the…
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A guide to big data workload-management challenges
Traditional applications had a common platform that captured business transactions. The software pipeline extracted, cleansed and loaded the information into a…
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7 things you should know about devops
The move to devops is on. The philosophy holds that software developers and IT operations people at a company work better…
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Locating data centers in an energy-constrained world
Changes in the power market are rippling through the Internet industry, altering both the location of data centers and their sources…
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Deploying big data: 2012 strategies for IT departments
Cloud computing and big data are in the enterprise to stay. IT decision makers have embraced, or at least accepted, the…
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Sector RoadMap: Hadoop platforms 2012
This report examines the key disruptive trends shaping the Hadoop platform market, and where companies will position themselves to gain share…
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Infrastructure Q1: Cloud and big data woo the enterprise
Cloud and big data providers spent the first quarter of 2012 adding services to their product lines that they hope will…
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The big machine: creating value out of machine-driven big data
Big data continues to offer more and more opportunity for businesses. By analyzing the information already in an organization, executives can…
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A cloud-computing market forecast
Cloud computing is made up of three key segments: Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings. We forecast…
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Big data: beyond analytics
Key to understanding big data is to move beyond simply examining the technology for data storage and analytics engines in order…
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Why service providers matter for the future of big data
One major solution to the big data skills shortage has been the emergence of consulting and outsourcing firms specializing in deploying…
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A near-term outlook for big data
Big data now touches everything from enterprises and hospitals to smart-meter startups and connected devices in the home. Hadoop, meanwhile, is…
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10 ways big data changes everything
Industries like Internet search, genomics, climate research and business analytics are starting to create massive data sets — in the petabyte…
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Six security dangers Web startups should know and how to counter them
Rapid growth phases at startups are invariably accompanied by an escalating number of attacks and the need to respond to those,…
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Updated: How Amazon’s DynamoDB is rattling the big data and cloud markets
If you don’t like disruption, you won’t like Amazon, and you especially won’t like its cloud computing business, Amazon Web Services…
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Infrastructure Q4: Big data gets bigger and SaaS startups shine
Continuing a yearlong trend, the fourth quarter in big IT was all about big data, and Hadoop in particular. At this…
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Cloud computing 2012: a pessimist’s guide
How does the cloud market for the next year look? There will be no silver linings or lemonade. This research note,…
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Quality of the cloud: best practices for ISVs
This report is intended to provide ISVs with guidance on partnering with hosting companies, establishing criteria for selecting a hosting service,…
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Migrating media applications to the private cloud: best practices for businesses
Web content that relies on interactivity, social networking and personalization is becoming the dominant form, but it puts particular demands on…
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