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'Digital Universe" Nears A Zettabyte

The Great Recession hasn’t slowed the breakneck growth of the Digital Universe. In 2010 the volume of digital information created and duplicated in a year will reach 1.2 zettabytes, according to new data from IDC.

NoSQL in the Enterprise

Determing other efficient options of storing and retrieving data instead of blindly taking the RDBMS approach as de facto for anything and everything.

The data deluge

Businesses, governments and society are only starting to tap its vast potential

Data Explosion: A guide to connecting the dots

Harness the power of your data

Training to Climb an Everest of Digital Data

It is a rare criticism of elite American university students that they do not think big enough. But that is exactly the complaint from some of the largest technology companies and the federal government...

4 Technologies That Are Reshaping Business Intelligence

Next-generation BI is being formed by predictive analytics, real-time monitoring, in-memory processing, and SaaS.

Is Multiprocessing Possible?

Federal dollars may help solve the riddle once and for all.

Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal

Microsoft and Yahoo have now officially announced the search deal that has been rumored for long and finally confirmed...

Four Paths to Java Parallelism

"Parallel programming in Java is becoming easier with tools such as the fork/join framework, Pervasive DataRush, Terracotta, and Hadoop. This article gives a high-level description of each approach, pointing you in the right direction to begin writing..."

Multi-Threaded Development Joins Gates as Yesterday's Man

"...the validity of multi threading is under attack. Veteran programmer Knuth said in a recent interview that multi threading may not be up to the task and could fail. As such, he is "unhappy" with the current trend towards multi-core architectures."
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