MapReduce has become a standard, perhaps the standard, for distributed file systems. While it’s a great system already, it’s really geared toward batch use, with jobs needing to queue for later output. This can severely hamper your flexibility. What if you want to explore some of your data? If it’s going to take all night, forget about it.Oct. 10, 2015 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 339Disaster Recovery: Myths and TruthsBy Marc CrespiDisaster recovery (DR) has traditionally been a major challenge for IT departments. Even with the advent of server virtualization and other technologies that have simplified DR implementation and some aspects of on-going management, it is still a complex and (often extremely) costly undertaking. For those applications that do not require high availability, but are still mission- and business-critical, the decision as to which [applications] to spend money on for true disaster recovery can be a struggle. Oct. 10, 2015 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 375Software Will Power the Internet of ThingsBy AppDynamics BlogToday’s connected world is moving from devices towards things, what this means is that by using increasingly low cost sensors embedded in devices we can create many new use cases. 9, 2015 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 196Cloud Computing: A Data Centric Business ModelBy Kevin Jackson“Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management.”