This report examines the key disruptive trends shaping the Hadoop platform market, and where companies will position themselves to gain share…
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Infrastructure Q1: Cloud and big data woo the enterprise
Cloud and big data providers spent the first quarter of 2012 adding services to their product lines that they hope will…
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The big machine: creating value out of machine-driven big data
Big data continues to offer more and more opportunity for businesses. By analyzing the information already in an organization, executives can…
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A cloud-computing market forecast
Cloud computing is made up of three key segments: Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings. We forecast…
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Big data: beyond analytics
Key to understanding big data is to move beyond simply examining the technology for data storage and analytics engines in order…
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Why service providers matter for the future of big data
One major solution to the big data skills shortage has been the emergence of consulting and outsourcing firms specializing in deploying…
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A near-term outlook for big data
Big data now touches everything from enterprises and hospitals to smart-meter startups and connected devices in the home. Hadoop, meanwhile, is…
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10 ways big data changes everything
Industries like Internet search, genomics, climate research and business analytics are starting to create massive data sets — in the petabyte…
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Six security dangers Web startups should know and how to counter them
Rapid growth phases at startups are invariably accompanied by an escalating number of attacks and the need to respond to those,…
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Updated: How Amazon’s DynamoDB is rattling the big data and cloud markets
If you don’t like disruption, you won’t like Amazon, and you especially won’t like its cloud computing business, Amazon Web Services…
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Infrastructure Q4: Big data gets bigger and SaaS startups shine
Continuing a yearlong trend, the fourth quarter in big IT was all about big data, and Hadoop in particular. At this…
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Cloud computing 2012: a pessimist’s guide
How does the cloud market for the next year look? There will be no silver linings or lemonade. This research note,…
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Quality of the cloud: best practices for ISVs
This report is intended to provide ISVs with guidance on partnering with hosting companies, establishing criteria for selecting a hosting service,…
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Migrating media applications to the private cloud: best practices for businesses
Web content that relies on interactivity, social networking and personalization is becoming the dominant form, but it puts particular demands on…
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Dissecting the data: 5 issues for our digital future
When it comes to the promise of data as the currency of the web, the current state of affairs has privacy…
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Infrastructure Q3: OpenStack and flash step into the spotlight
Last quarter we highlighted the fast maturation of the Platform-as-a-Service and big data spaces. Those two trends only picked up speed…
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OpenFlow and beyond: future opportunities in networking
The world of networking is changing, thanks to shifting traffic patterns, more widely distributed webscale systems and the economic need for…
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Flash analysis: the tech startup investment environment, Q3 2011
With the stock market in flux, do tech startups stand a chance when it comes to luring investors? To find out,…
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Infrastructure Q2: Big data and PaaS gain more momentum
Big data and Platform-as-a-Service offerings highlighted the second quarter, suggesting that we can expect to see a shift in enterprise IT…
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A field guide to cloud computing: current trends, future opportunities
Assuming cloud adoption takes off as data suggests it will, cloud services integration will provide major opportunities for cloud providers and…
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The Structure 50: The Top 50 Cloud Innovators
In five short years, cloud computing has gone from being a quaint technology to a major catchphrase. Amazon and others are…
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Infrastructure Q1: IaaS Comes Down to Earth; Big Data Takes Flight
Two things stand out above all else when looking back on the first quarter of 2011: Infrastructure as a service (IaaS),…
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Defining Hadoop: the Players, Technologies and Challenges of 2011
Hadoop will continue its trek to mainstream adoption in 2011. Companies of all types and in all geographic regions likely will…
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Putting Big Data to Work: Opportunities for Enterprises
In 2011, we’re seeing extraordinary growth of big data in these areas along three dimensions: volume, complexity and speed. Additionally, data…
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