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A social platform that saw intense growth in a short period of time has now been forced to pull its servers offline due to a huge security bungle. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes Not long after ...

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For some time Microsoft didn’t offer a solution for processing big data in cloud environments. SQL Server is good for storage, but its ability to analyze terabytes of data is limited. Hadoop, which ...

Suppose you want to run regular statistical analyses on your Web site’s traffic log data — several hundred terabytes, updated weekly. (Don’t laugh. This is not unheard of for popular Web sites.) ...

As the big data hype recedes, companies face the stark realities of their Hadoop clusters and have a looming question: how to best use them? Odds are, departments who made an early commitment to ...

Hackers have hit a major nursing home chain, potentially exposing a significant amount of patient and staff data in a brazen extortion attempt. Consulate Healthcare confirmed to McKnight’s Long-Term ...