Andy Patrizio

Two things are clear: augmented reality uses are growing. And augmented reality itself is gaining ground. Virtual reality is making the headlines these days now that the headsets are finally shipping, but VR’s cousin, augmented reality, is riding a similar wave. That’s thanks to the fact that the same hardware powering VR can also make […]

Choosing an enterprise-class cloud managed services provider is no trivial task, as the offerings have grown increasingly complex and detailed as the market has grown. The consequences are also significant. If you are going to take apps, computing, and data out of your data center and put it in the cloud and in the hands […]

Since its launch ten years ago, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has grown into a rich and very complex offering of cloud services designed to fit almost any need, whether it’s a small virtual instance for basic compute work or complex infrastructure integrated with your on-premises services. When the menu gets as complex as AWS, it […]

You’ve jumped head first into Big Data. You upped your storage, added all kinds of new data streams and now have petabytes more data than you did a year ago. Your Data Lake is fuller than any reservoir in California. Now what are you going to do with it? The fact is, data in and […]

Apple’s secretive nature is legendary. Though key part of its history, all the various projects would be highly compartmentalized and no one knew what other groups did. Employees working on different projects would refuse to sit together in the campus cafeteria for fear of being accused of sharing details on their projects. And this secretiveness […]

As datasets grow larger, Big Data experts are facing the increasing problem of getting their data ready before it can actually be processed. A recent report found that business intelligence professionals spend anywhere from 50% to 90% of their time preparing data before they can even put it through analytics apps. Xplenty, which sells a […]

Big Data has had its struggles in recent months as companies experimenting with it have come to an unpleasant realization: they don’t need it. They experimented with it because it was the hot new buzzword but then realized they didn’t have a need or use for it. However, it could be they just didn’t apply […]

You can never go fast enough in the world of Big Data. No one has ever said they don’t need to process data any faster. And while Intel continues to make faster and faster Xeons, the huge data arrays are outpacing Intel’s clock speeds. Part of the problem is the nature of the processor design. […]

Also see: Hadoop and Big Data Hadoop has come a long way since its introduction as an open source project from Yahoo. It is moving into production from pilot/test stages at many firms. And the ecosystem of companies supporting it in one way or another is growing daily. It has some flaws, however, that are […]

It’s rare for a technology and concept like Hadoop and Big Data to take off with the speed that they have, more so with a technology and concept as big and complex. Hadoop was an internal project at Yahoo just five years ago. Now, companies are betting their business on Big Data. The challenge, though, […]