What is Apache Spark? The big data analytics platform explained From its humble beginnings in the AMPLab at U.C. Berkeley in 2009, Apache Spark has become one of the key big data distributed processing frameworks in the world. Spark can be deployed in a variety of ways, provides native bindings for the Java, Scala, Python, […]
IDG Contributor Network: Where the business cloud weathers the storm Over the past few months, two of the biggest storms in recent history battered cities across the country. One estimate pins the damages at $290 billion, which doesn’t include the decreased or lost productivity that is still to come for offices and businesses across the […]
How enterprises should use the cloud in China By 2020, which is not that far away, the aggregate market size of China’s cloud computing industry is expected to hit 686.6 billion yuan (about $103.6 billion), according to Forward Intelligence. China’s cloud computing industry has experienced strong growth since 2010, with a market size reaching 178.2 billion […]
IDG Contributor Network: Cloud computing, the Rx for health care The supply chain sits at the center of the health care industry’s ongoing transformation. A recent study by Navigant found that U.S. hospitals could reduce annual supply expenses by approximately $23 billion in aggregate through improvements in supply chain operations, processes and product use. The […]
IDG Contributor Network: 20 billion IoT devices. Now what? Expect a computational tidal wave by 2020. By then, data traveling to and from an estimated 20 billion IoT devices will flood datacenters—outpacing data flowing from datacenters to users by a factor of 275. Yet there’s a wealth of computing power in underused devices that often […]
IDG Contributor Network: Why a multicloud strategy is the way to go Cloud adoption continues apace as enterprises embrace the upsides of speed, simplicity, agility, and lower costs. Unless you’re a massive company with near unlimited resources, you likely won’t be able to come close to matching the big data, machine learning, or Internet of […]
What’s new in Prometheus monitoring for Docker and Kubernetes Prometheus, the open source monitoring system for Docker-style containers running in cloud architectures, has formally released a 2.0 version with major architectural changes to improve its performance. Among the changes that have landed since the release of version 1.6 earlier this year: An entirely new storage […]
IDG Contributor Network: Farewell, Frodo: Why we need trustworthy metadata to define our infrastructure I have fond memories of when IT admins would give names to their servers, and even assign them unique personalities. It was a simpler time, before virtualization and the cloud made infrastructure exponentially more complex. My favorites were the The Lord […]
IDG Contributor Network: REST or SOAP in a cloud-native environment Cloud-based API data models have not only enhanced the cloud experience, but also provided a way for developers and administrators to integrate workloads into the cloud using those APIs. For most enterprises, APIs let share information across various on-premises and cloud-based applications. They also play […]
How to shift cloud metrics to measuring agility It’s a constantly evolving science, the ability to understand the exact business benefit of cloud computing. A few years ago, the benefit was largely conceived as “capex vs. opex,” the ability to shift to an on-demand consumption model and thus avoid the capital expenses of hardware and […]
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