Hadoop wins over enterprise IT, spurs talent crunch

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	Hadoop wins over enterprise IT, spurs talent crunch Hadoop is coming out of the shadows and into production in enterprise IT shops. But the relative newness of the open-source platform and a shortage of experienced Hadoop talent pose hurdles that enterprise IT teams need to address as they advance deeper into the world of Hadoop. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold WhatsUp Gold - IT Management Made Simple Wish you had a powerful, proactive monitoring and management solution to easily manage your network? WhatsUp Gold is at work on over 100,00 networks and is the most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management solution available today. WhatsUp Gold is IT Management Made Simple. Try it free for 30 days! 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Demand growing for application performance management tools, experts say The growing importance of reliable applications in the enterprise has opened a lucrative market opportunity for application performance management vendors, some of which have taken full advantage lately. Read More IT networking organizations in a state of transition In a number of recent blogs, I've described an ESG thesis called data center networking discontinuity. Simply stated, data center networking discontinuity describes the growing gap between data center scale and complexity on one hand and legacy data center networking equipment and manual management and operations on the other. Read More Cray courts the big-data market Supercomputer company Cray has created a new division that will sell big-data systems, the company has announced. The division will market its offerings to large enterprises, which will be a new kind of client for the company. Read More WHITE PAPER: Silver Peak Systems, Inc. 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Read More M86 Security Labs report provides insight to plan security for 2012 The researchers at M86 Security Labs have just released their semiannual report about security trends and malware, spam and phishing activities they observed in the latter half of 2011. Use the 20/20 hindsight of this report to plan ahead for your security measures in 2012. Read More WHITE PAPER: VMware VMware View 5 Performance and Best Practices VMware View 5 reduces costs, improves security, and, at the same time, increases availability and flexibility for end users. This technical white paper includes View 5 new features, performance improvements, performance results and best practices. Read Now! Get expert advice on building an effective BYOD strategy Is your organization struggling with the task of creating a "bring your own device" (BYOD) strategy? Pick up some pointers from some of the leading expert practitioners in information security. The Wisegate community has just published a new report on effective BYOD strategies. Read More DDoS attacks motivated by politics not criminality, Arbor Networks finds Large Internet organisations believe ideological and political motivations have become the single commonest motivation behind the DDoS attacks hitting their networks, a survey of major Internet firms by has found. Read More Flexing NoSQL: MongoDB in review MongoDB shines with broad programming language support, SQL-like queries, and out-of-the-box scaling. Read More Oracle buying Taleo for US$1.9 billion in direct hit at SAP Oracle is buying cloud-based talent management and employee recruitment software vendor Taleo for roughly US$1.9 billion. The move comes shortly after SAP's move to acquire SuccessFactors, a close competitor of Taleo, for US$3.4 billion in a deal that has yet to close. Read More
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