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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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Some of these technology innovations sound like science fiction, but they may land in your data center sooner than you'd imagine Dek:  Some of these technology innovations sound like science fiction, but they may land in your data center sooner than you'd imagine External Source:  infoworld.com Redirect Unpublished Slideshow to:  http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/161494

Some of these technology innovations sound like science fiction, but they may land in your data center sooner than you'd imagine Dek:  Some of these technology innovations sound like science fiction, but they may land in your data center sooner than you'd imagine External Source:  infoworld.com Redirect Unpublished Slideshow to:  http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/161494

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.

The number of phishing sites was up 10.7-percent as of Q1 this year (over last year) while at the same time almost 32.7-percent of PCs globally were infected with malware, including adware and spyware, indicating that phishing is an increasing issue for the enterprise, according to a report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force.

According to Gartner, BI (business intelligence) and analytics will remain a top focus for CIOs through 2017, with companies spending millions on traditional BI software, cloud BI services, and now mobile apps and even social BI. However, as the type and number of BI solutions has grown, so too has the possibility of failure, of picking the wrong business intelligence software for your business problem or problems or of having end users not understand or properly use the solution.

Hoping to cover all its bases in the emerging IoT (Internet of things) market, Microsoft is proffering a helping hand to "makers," DIYers, hardware hackers, and other builders of things that may one day end up on the Internet.

Microsoft is shipping a pared-down version of Windows on an Intel Galileo development board in hopes of extending Windows' reach further into smart devices and Internet-connected appliances.

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!