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How Hadoop helps Experian crunch credit reports

Experian is quickly crunching massive amounts of data and making it available to customers thanks to the open source software as well as microservices and API technologies.

By Clint Boulton

Jan 5, 2017 5 mins

Analytics Big Data IT Leadership

Busted! 5 myths of digital transformation

Let’s get digital: Serious opportunities await those who can cut through the bull surrounding everything that can make an organization digital

By Bob Lewis

Jan 5, 2017 9 mins

Analytics Big Data Cloud Computing

6 must-see techie TED talks

Augmented reality, blockchain, AI, Linux and phone encryption are among TED Talk topics that can get you up to speed in just a few minutes

By Bob Brown

Jan 4, 2017 3 mins

Big Data Small and Medium Business Smartphones

DIY vs. fully integrated Hadoop – What’s best for your organization?

The trade-offs of building it yourself vs. going with a pre-integrated, out-of-the-box platform

By Adam Lorant, VP Product & Solutions, PHEMI

Dec 22, 2016 7 mins

Big Data Enterprise Applications

Despite big data, Alibaba’s Taobao back in US blacklist

The US Trade Representative says IP holders find it difficult to report fakes and get quick action

By John Ribeiro

Dec 22, 2016 3 mins

Big Data Internet

How artificial intelligence can eliminate bias in hiring

AI and machine learning can help identify diverse candidates, improve the hiring pipeline and eliminate unconscious bias.

By Sharon Florentine

Dec 22, 2016 12 mins

Big Data Careers Enterprise Applications

Q&A: Hortonworks CTO unfolds the big data road map

Hortonworks' Scott Gnau talks about Apache Spark vs. Hadoop and data in motion

By Paul Krill

Dec 20, 2016 9 mins

Analytics Big Data

Businesses eye cloud for big data deployments

Big data cloud deployments have surged over the past year and business intelligence is now the number 1 big data workload, according to a new survey of big data professionals.

By Thor Olavsrud

Dec 16, 2016 4 mins

Analytics Big Data Cloud Computing