It’s a generally accepted maxim that the business community’s fascination with big data, which started in the mid-2000s, ran out of steam about five years ago. But that’s only partly true. While the ...

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Every now and then, the IT industry - vendors and customers alike - takes a common problem, gives it a catchy name, and drives the buzz (and market) rapidly to create new business opportunities for ...

LinkedIn engineers have open sourced a homegrown Big Data scale testing tool following a "crisis" they experienced after adding 500 machines to a Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) cluster, ...

Data migration testing ensures that all your data sets and system integrity are maintained when they’re transferred to a different host. Depending on the size of your organization and the work it does ...

British Journal of Sociology of Education, Vol. 38, No. 6 (September 2017), pp. 827-840 (14 pages) This article critically considers the promise of computer adaptive testing (CAT) and digital data to ...

Migration of data from on-premises to cloud systems or between multiple cloud systems is a common and complex event across companies of all sizes and industries. The types of data being migrated can ...