Making Sense Of NoSQL And Big Data Amidst High Expectations
In the last six months there has been a dramatic increase in interest for NoSQL and Big Data. You probably have heard “NoSQL is the future of databases,” or that “Big Data is a key technology that will...
View ArticleTaking Elephants To The OpenStack Cloud – A New Initiative With Hortonworks
We want to take the headache out of deploying and using Big Data solutions. And today, through a strategic partnership with Hortonworks, a leader in Apache Hadoop development, implementation, support,...
View ArticleEnterprise Cloud Forum: You’ve Got Cloud Questions; We’ve Got Cloud Answers
When it comes to cloud adoption, are you part of the problem or part of the solution? The Rackspace Advisory Services team wants to help you answer that question. We’re a dedicated team that lives and...
View ArticleCloud Predictions For 2013
Last year, in my cloud predictions for 2012, I focused heavily on how open source code will become the standard and how the future will be mobile. In 2012, we at Rackspace officially launched our open...
View ArticleCloudant On Rackspace: Data Layer For The Big Apps Era
This is a guest post written and contributed by Mike Miller, Co-founder, Chief Scientist of Cloudant, a Rackspace Cloud Tools partner. Cloudant is a managed NoSQL cloud database service, a fast,...
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Private Cloud, Big Data Move IT Up The Value Chain
It’s no secret that CIOs and IT executives feel pressure to provide more value to the business. A study from Gartner (Amplifying the Enterprise: 2012 CIO Agenda) indicated that the No. 1 priority for...
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Solve Your Big Data Needs With Rackspace and Apache Hadoop
The demand for Big Data solutions continues to grow, and to help you tackle Big Data workloads, we have partnered with Hortonworks, the premiere open-sourced Apache HadoopTM enterprise distribution, to...
View ArticleBig Data And Context: Moving To A ‘No Interface’ Future
Forget moving towards a “paperless” world. Golden Krishna, senior designer at Samsung Innovation Labs, wants us to move towards a “screenless” one. In his SXSW Interactive talk “The Best Interface Is...
View ArticleTurn Big Data Into Big Dollars
Big Data can drive big dollars. For any growing business, that’s the bottom line. As the amount of information in the world grows, your enterprise needs to start turning these bytes into bank. One way...
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A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words: Data Visualization For Your App
We are living in the age of Big Data – there is so much information around us at any given moment that it is impossible to manually sift through and interpret it all. My team at Rackspace is...
View ArticleScale-Out With Isilon At Rackspace
Data is at the heart of your business. As your business grows, your data grows. And with increasing amounts of data, you need a scalable, secure and efficient platform to store it. You also need...
View ArticleKnow MapReduce? No Problem!
In an ever-evolving competitive landscape it’s often hard to keep up the level of competencies inside your organization to meet the demands of rapidly changing technology. You have taken care and...
View ArticleThe Human Cloud: Wearable Technology’s Impact On Society
In Simon & Garfunkel’s 1968 cross-country anthem “America,” Paul Simon cautioned: “be careful, his bowtie is really a camera.” Little did Simon know that 45 years later not only would the majority...
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Big Data Analytics With No Waiting
This is a guest post written and contributed by Ravi Chandran, Founder & CTO at XtremeData, Inc., a Rackspace Cloud Tools Partner. XtremeData provides a scalable, full-featured SQL data warehouse...
View ArticleBig Data Analytics Powered By The Rackspace Hybrid Cloud
Big Data deployments shouldn’t be intimidating. You shouldn’t have to have a Big Data PhD to analyze and make sense of your most critical data. But let’s face it – a Big Data deployment can be complex...
View ArticleGrowing And Scaling With Big Data On The Hybrid Cloud
This is a guest post written and contributed by Mike Prince, Founder at Corporation Wiki, a Rackspace Hybrid Cloud customer that archives historical corporate data to become the go-to spot for...
View ArticleHadoop Summit 2013: New Hadoop Tools For The Hybrid Cloud
As the momentum in big data solutions reaches a heightened awareness, the demand for deep understanding of technologies like Apache HadoopTM becomes top of mind with our customers. One of the focal...
View ArticleJuly Webinars: Capacity Planning; NoSQL & Big Data; Exceptional Cloud Services
This month, we’re bringing you a series of free webinars to help you learn how a hybrid cloud approach can add agility, flexibility and speed-to-market for your organization. First, we’ll highlight the...
View ArticleDo You Need A Data Scientist?
The question “do you need a data scientist?” came up a lot when I was a management consultant for a global firm that successfully incubated data science within a few enterprise organizations. It’s...
View ArticleAdding ‘Technologist’ To Your Marketing Resume [Infographic]
By 2017, marketing will spend more on technology than IT. When Gartner made this dramatic prediction last year, there was a mixture of panic and excitement among marketers. You could almost hear the...
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