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Cassandra Europe conference – part2
The Cassandra Europe conference was also a very good place to learn about rolling out Cassandra in the real life, with a lot of case studies being presented. Before looking at some specific examples,...
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Oracle Big Data and Extreme Analytics Summit
On the 24th April, Excelian attended a summit organised by Oracle on a hot topic which is Big Data and Analytics, especially the challenge of processing large amount of data to find meaningful insight...
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What do Azure’s new IaaS offerings mean for Hadoop?
In June Microsoft opened their Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings allowing users to manage their own virtual machines within the Microsoft Azure cloud. This new feature set...
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High Availability and Hadoop
The “High Availability problem” has been one of the few stumbling blocks in Hadoop’s plans to become the premier data storage and processing platform. The single point of failure offered by Hadoop’s...
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Learn New Ways to Build and Test High-Performance Parallel Applications
Are you interested in the deployment of Hadoop MapReduce or other types of distributed grid workloads? If so, then you’ll be delighted to hear that IBM and Excelian are talking about new ways to build...
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ParAccel – The Answer to Big Analytics?
Excelian recently attended a partner briefing for ParAccel, a company whose products endeavour to create an “Analytics Driven Enterprise”. The analytics driven enterprise is one that acknowledges the...
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How big is big? Is there a case for big data solutions right now in...
When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. There is a significant amount of interest in Big Data solutions in Investment Banking technology departments. And there have been a number of...
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Excelian at the STAC summit
I had the opportunity to participate to this year’s edition of the London STAC conference, an event focused on Finance and aiming at discussing engineering challenges and solutions within the industry....
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Introduction to Amazon Web Services
Over the past few years financial services companies have been slow in starting to use cloud computing services. This has been mainly down to the view that cloud computing is not as secure and reliable...
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Why do I.T. departments within the financial service industry not take Big...
Last week a colleague of mine at Excelian published a blog post detailing Big Data and NoSQL solution adoption within the financial service industry. The conclusion drawn from the post is that the...
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