New Data Analytics Benchmark Puts Stopwatch to Hadoop-based Systems
Ladies and gentlemen, start your clusters. A new data analytics and machine learning benchmark has been released by the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) measuring real-world performance of Hadoop-based ...Full Article
How Technology Will Change Black Friday
Black Friday is now a distant memory. But the next one is never less than 356 days away, so pundits are analyzing the results of shopper habits during the ...Full Article
How Airbnb’s Diversity Strategy Increased Women in Data Science by 100%
Across the technology industry it is a shared value that workforce diversity is a good thing – morally good and good for business. Yet most companies remain tenaciously male. ...Full Article
Software Defined Container Orchestration Accelerates Deployment of Large Docker Container Clusters
Containers have exploded through the bulkheads of market acceptance that most new technologies must slog through, crossing the chasm in only three years and transforming the way applications are ...Full Article
Detecting ‘Multi-Stage’ Cloud Cyber-Attacks from the Start
From small, hardly noticeable beginnings the biggest cloud cyber-attacks grow. Called multi-stage intrusion attacks, it’s how hackers create a virtual machine in a public cloud to penetrate the on-prem ...Full Article
As Data Analytics Workload Complexity Explodes, FPGAs May Find a Niche in Enterprise Clusters
It’s the holiday season and out of the milling hordes of shoppers at a brick-and-mortar store, an individual consumer approaches the jewelry department. His cell phone is on, releasing ...Full Article
How Priceline.com Rid In-Memory Cache Of Java Jitters
Priceline.com is one of the early Internet startups, and as such it has built a lot of its own technology for gathering up pricing information on airfares, hotel rooms, ...Full Article
PSFK Labs Predict the Future of Retail Data
When it comes to the future of retail, PSFK Labs has an idea of what’s in store. According to the latest report in its “The Future of Retail” series, ...Full Article
Google Wallet Founders Personalize In-Store Shopping with Index
home and shop on their computers, thanks to a slew of features from customer reviews to recommended items based on a shoppers browsing history. Already Amazon has charged ahead ...Full Article
Walmart Seeks an Edge with Mobile
When it comes to online sales, it's no surprise that, in the face of online retail giants such as Amazon, the superstore chain Walmart has struggled. But according to ...Full Article
