IT General

Back in March, Louis Columbus reported on some numbers from Glassdoor.com showing employees' rankings of their cloud technology companies. They are not perfect indicators of company culture, but are certainly worth your consideration if you're looking to work for a cloud provider -- or trying to figure out which ones to use as a provider.

When enterprises interested in leveraging big data and analytics ask how to get started, they often are advised to begin with Hadoop, Apache Software's open source data storage and processing framework.

There are a number of reasons why Hadoop is an attractive option. Not only does the platform offer both distributed computing and computational capabilities at a relatively low cost, it's able to scale to meet the anticipated exponential increase in data generated by mobile technology, social media, the Internet of Things, and other emerging digital technologies.

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It's easy to dismiss the launch of a new Intel CPU as a ho-hum event.

Splice Machine advertises itself as "the only Hadoop RDBMS." The idea is to give you a transactionally correct database that has the underlying scalability features of HBase.

We're all aware knowledge is power and time is money.

A group of innovative hackers used free services from Google and an Internet infrastructure company to disguise data stolen from corporate and government computers, a security firm reported.

FireEye discovered the campaign, dubbed Poisoned Hurricane, in March while analyzing traffic originating from systems infected with a remote access tool (RAT) the firm called Kaba, a variant of the better known PlugX.

When NASA's Juno satellite blasted off for Saturn, the 3D printed parts in its final assembly represented just one small step toward manufacturer Lockheed Martin's goal to eventually build an entire spacecraft using additive manufacturing technology. The launch also signified one giant leap toward the use of 3D printing in the aerospace firm's manufacturing processes here on earth.

Other businesses are adopting 3D printing in production, too. IT, in response, is buckling up for the ride.

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Money smarts do not necessarily equal tech smarts, which can be a disaster for many companies.

PaaS (platform as a service) occupies an interesting niche in the cloud ecosystem. It typically sits on top of IaaS (infrastructure as a service), which provides the ability to access remote computing resources.

As a boy, from the first time I saw "Star Trek," I thought it would be incredibly cool to say "Computer!

Money smarts do not necessarily equal tech smarts, which can be a disaster for many companies.