Hadoop isn't fair. However we choose to define the Hadoop market—as a service, as just software, or including hardware and services—it's destined to be a massive market. Ironically, however, those that contribute the most to its development are not those that stand to make the most money from its success. "Hadoop...
Big Data is not new. For decades companies have been leveraging massive data warehouses and other proprietary Big Data tools to optimize business processes, improve customer targeting and more. That, however, was the problem: proprietary. Today Big Data is so big precisely because it's so open: Hadoop, NoSQL databases and...
China’s Huawei Technologies Co., the world’s second-largest supplier of telecommunications equipment, faces an uphill battle in the U.S where it has been effectively shut out of the market due to national-security questions raised by local politicians. Luckily things are different for them in the U.K., where Huawei has an...
Facebook (arguably) owns more data than God.But how to store a cache of user data collected at the scale of omniscience? If you're Facebook, just build another custom-crafted server storage locker roughly the size of the USS Abraham Lincoln on top of a breezy plateau in the Oregon high desert....
The mobile market is about to get interesting. For years, Apple has dominated both market and profit share, with Google's Android more recently having severely cut into Apple's market share while also taking a bite out of profits.Meanwhile, almost completely forgotten in the mix is Firefox OS, Mozilla's browser-centric mobile...
It's getting harder to turn around in tech without bumping into some reference to APIs, or application programming interfaces. Here at ReadWrite, for instance, we've recently discussed Google's flip-flops on the open Calendar API and why Pinterest hasn't made its APIs public yet. I've even put forth the notion of getting...
While much of the talk surrounding Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia's mobile business surrounds the inevitability of end-to-end mobile business models, there's a vastly different lesson to take from Microsoft's acquisition. Along with Nokia's mobile business Microsoft got a 10-year license to a massive treasure trove of mobile patents.The real money,...
What's the biggest software business nobody seems to talk about?The numbers suggest it's customer-relationship management, the suite of software tools businesses use to track sales prospects, customers, and marketing campaigns.And the vast majority of businesses aren't using sophisticated software from Salesforce, Oracle, or Microsoft. They're stuck using email, contact managers,...
Guest author Esmeralda Swartz is chief marketing officer at MetraTech.Most of the high-end products we purchase are bought without inherent understanding of how they work. That's not usually a problem, but the Internet went nuts when Gartner recently predicted that by 2017, chief marketing officers (CMOs) will spend more on...
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies in the workplace are increasingly regarded as an inevitability as employees demand to to be able to use the hardware they want instead instead of settling for some lame, inefficient corporate standard.In this scenario, BYOD is seen as a boon for workers that companies...
The contraction of the PC market continues faster than ever, eaten by the rapid growth of the tablet market, which is expected to outsell laptop and notebook devices for the first time this year and all PCs by 2015. But portable PCs may still be the saving grace for PC...
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) polices are increasingly popular as a way for companies to let workers use the hardware they like best and are most productive with. But according to a new study from Cisco, that not be the best way to think about BYOD.Implement a strong BYOD policy,...
Facebook is planning to build a massive data center in Altoona, Iowa, the company said on Tuesday. That's right, Altoona, Iowa, a suburb of Des Moines.With more than a billion users around the world to support and just three wholly owned data centers (Forest City, North Carolina; Prineville, Oregon; Luleå, Sweden,...
Gartner has finally come out and said it: The PC market is dying.Except it hasn't said that, quite. But it is, and saying so is really important.The market-research firm predicts a 7.6% decline in PC sales this year, to 315 million units (including desktops and notebooks) from the roughly 341...
Admit it: you're that person. You're the one who spends over 23 hours watching online video every month. You're the one that is driving the online video market to $37 billion by 2017. You are the 83.3%.Are you the same person who clicks on ads? The same person who is...
The Hadoop market is getting interesting. Last year it was a death match between startups vying to own the heart of the project. Today it's a veritable smorgasbord of big-brand vendors getting involved to ensure they claim a big piece of the Big Data pie. Unlike American youth athletics, not...
Websites get shut down all the time. Sometimes, nobody notices. Other times, what remains of the service's community lets out one last collective cry of disapproval and then moves on with their collective lives. Last night, a certain segment of the Web's population went into a hysterical fit of rage...
Networking giant Cisco predicted Wednesday that as we move into a "fundamentally mobile and video" world, the "Internet of Everything" — which combines the so-called Internet of Things with the Internet used by people and their mobile devices — will create $14.4 trillion in value and boost overall corporate profits...
Hadoop, nearly synonymous with Big Data, has many failings. But open source is not one of them. In fact, Hadoop's open-source license remains one of its biggest draws, giving enterprises plenty of reasons to persevere in using it despite its shortcomings. It's therefore hard to see how EMC's new Pivotal...
Remember when "Other" was just a rounding error in market share reports? Now in the server market, it just might be the main event, as Facebook's Open Compute project, cloud computing, and other trends drive buyers to no-name server vendors instead of IBM, HP, and Dell. Time to short the...
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