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MapR customers achieve more than 5x return on investment

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MapR Technologies has released at Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2014 results of independent, third-party research that indicated a majority of MapR customers experienced payback in less than 12 months and greater than 5X returns on their investment. More than 50 companies that responded to the survey also had experience using other Hadoop distributions and even those reported similar, large returns, with 65% reporting greater than 5X returns and 40% reporting greater than 10X returns using...

Delays to digital transformation projects create concern for CIOs and CFOs

Canopy’s research finds 75% of CFOs fear their businesses will fall behind if they don’t have the optimum cloud applications and infrastructure in place.

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Hortonworks has announced the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) version 2.2, an enterprise-ready data platform that enables organizations to adopt a modern data architecture with Hadoop YARN as the architectural center, supported by key capabilities required of an enterprise data platform – spanning governance, security and operations.

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Rackspace® has announced the release of OnMetal™ Cloud Big Data Platform so customers can now deploy bare metal instances of Apache™ Hadoop® with Spark™ in just three clicks. The new solution provides an efficient and elastic platform that delivers break-through speed for Hadoop and Spark™, allowing data scientists to gather insights in minutes rather than hours or days.

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Keysource has commenced work on a new state-of-the-art data centre for leading cloud computing experts brightsolid. The centre represents a £5 million investment and will be located at the Aberdeen Journals’ Lang Stracht site.

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Zenium Technology Partners has released findings from a new research report which highlights that a staggering 94% of senior IT professionals have admitted that their in-house data center is technologically out of date.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server now available on Google Compute Engine

Performance, reliability, security and scalability for developers and IT moving to the cloud.

Latency - the gamers' enemy

The first-ever survey of online gaming connectivity finds gamers quit in droves when experiencing...

The Green Grid to expand Board of Directors

Leading industry consortium for energy efficient IT further diversifies representation.

Innovative ICT infrastructure is the foundation of a better connected smart nation

Huawei Rotating CEO shares vision and strategy for an ICT-empowered smart nation.

Two in five global organizations waste more than $100,000 a year storing useless IT hardware

More than half of these hardware hoarders have been cited 1 or 2 times in the last 24 months for...

Data centre operators got their forecasts right

New research just undertaken by GVA Connect, the data centre specialist division of property agents...

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