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Hadoop Becomes Mainstream Across the Enterprise
Business Intelligence Hadoop Becomes Mainstream Across the Enterprise Nearly half the respondents to a new survey report that they are attaining tangible business value from their Hadoop investments. Hadoop Use Of the organizations surveyed, 71% are using Hadoop now, but those that aren’t using Hadoop plan on doing so soon: 8% within six months, 7%…
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The Inevitability of IT Solutions as Code
With the rise of cloud computing and APIs, the idea that infrastructure could actually be programmed has taken hold. As a result, the management of IT infrastructure will never be the same. However, now that the proverbial API genie is out of the bottle, entire solutions based on technologies that share access to a common…
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Measuring Returns on Big Data Investments
Big data investment Measuring Returns on Big Data Investments Investments in big data are helping increase revenue and reduce costs, despite significant cultural and tactical challenges. Big Data’s Impact on Revenue Over a quarter (27%) said the impact of big data investments exceeded 3% of revenues, while 38% pegged the value of those investments at…
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Digital Business Transformation Picks Up the Pace
Digital transformation Digital Business Transformation Picks Up the Pace Just about every aspect of enterprise IT is undergoing a transformation. Although most companies have made significant progress, many have a long way to go. Top Three IT Initiatives At the top of the list are automating IT processes (61%) and putting in place more security…
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Helping Your Customers Make the Transition to IPv6
One would think that nothing motivates people to action quite like impending disaster. Yet, in the past few years, we’ve seen remarkable complacency among IT customers confronted with warnings of such likelihoods. It’s hard to believe that Y2K is already 15 years behind us, but those Cobol and Fortran programmers who got hauled out of…
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Why IP Is Imperative to Channel Partners’ Future
The dawn of the reseller channel came in August 1981 when IBM introduced the IBM PC. Since company policy held that “nobody but IBM can sell IBM” the PCs were sold to ComputerLand, Nynex and Sears Business Centers, which then “resold” them to customers, creating a four-step “channel” from the manufacturer to the aggregator, to…
