Review: Spark lights a fire under big data processing

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	INSIDER Review: Spark lights a fire under big data processing Apache Spark got its start in 2009 at UC Berkeley's AMPLab as a way to perform in-memory analytics on large data sets. At that time, Hadoop MapReduce was focused on large-scale data pipelines that were not iterative in nature. Read More WHITE PAPER: Protiviti 2014 IT Security & Privacy Survey Results With the recent plethora of cyber-attacks and data breaches, prevailing wisdom suggests companies are working diligently to "get their houses in order." But findings from Protiviti's latest IT Security and Privacy Survey suggest otherwise. View now In this Issue Home Depot spent $43 million on data breach in just one quarter Monster snow: How Buffalo-area businesses kept things going in the storm Breaking up is hard to do, but HP won't look back SDN up 200% among service providers The one thing missing from Amazon's big cloud conference Tablet craze calms down as iPad shipments decline Hack the halls: Watch out for Cyber Monday scamathon Internet of Things helps asthma patients breathe easily Google delays demise of old-style Chrome plug-ins WEBCAST: EMC Redefine Your Mission-Critical Cloud with VMAX3 This webinar examines how EMC's VMAX3 storage solution provides unprecedented reliability, agility, cost-effectiveness and power in today's demanding storage environments. Learn More Home Depot spent $43 million on data breach in just one quarter Home Depot spent US$43 million in its third quarter dealing with the fallout of one of the largest ever data breaches, highlighting the costly nature of security failures. Read More Monster snow: How Buffalo-area businesses kept things going in the storm Despite the warnings of heavy snow, David Thiemecke's company Algonquin Studios was involved with an event last week to talk about the growth of hacking. With a party-like atmosphere, which included a dee-jay playing music while techies networked over hors d'oeuvres and beer, the snow hit Buffalo just as the event began. Read More Breaking up is hard to do, but HP won't look back Breaking up Hewlett-Packard is "totally the right thing to do for this company," CEO Meg Whitman said Tuesday, after HP reported declines in revenue and profit for the last quarter. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Steps to Simplifying Private Cloud Deployment Today, all the rules are being rewritten, both inside and outside the data center. The reason: virtualization. Read this paper to see how enterprises can derive competitive advantage by using virtualization technologies to build the most agile infrastructures. View Now>> SDN up 200% among service providers Production use of SDN has grown 200% among service providers over the past year, according to a survey from route analytics company Packet Design. Yet concern about the technology – lack of standards, and inadequate visibility and control – is up markedly from last year, while issues with SDN complexity dipped. Read More The one thing missing from Amazon's big cloud conference When Amazon Web Services has a big press or customer event, the company usually has one staple that it announces: Price cuts. Such was not the case earlier this month at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, the third-annual installation of the company's big cloud conference. So what's going on here? Read More Tablet craze calms down as iPad shipments decline It's time to kiss the tablet boom goodbye, as shipments of the once-dominant Apple iPad decline amid a worldwide slowdown for the devices. Read More WEBCAST: Dell Inc. The Human Side of IT Security The importance of IT security has vastly increased with the expansion in mobility, cloud computing, and social networking. Securing the organization is difficult enough, but it is considerably more difficult because of a number of factors tied to people. Learn more Hack the halls: Watch out for Cyber Monday scamathon Cyber Monday is the biggest online shopping day of the year, which means it is also the single biggest opportunity for criminals to steal cash, personal information and credit card numbers, and they've got an imposing arsenal to carry out their plans against the unwary. Read More Internet of Things helps asthma patients breathe easily With a bit of help from Microsoft and the Internet of Things (IoT), Swedish medical device company Aerocrine is helping doctors around the world diagnose and treat millions of asthma sufferers more effectively. Read More Google delays demise of old-style Chrome plug-ins Google on Monday gave traditional Google plug-ins a stay of execution and instead outlined a three-step plan that will finalize their demise in 10 months. Read More
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