In today’s business landscape, intelligence on a company’s financials and operations is more important than ever. Unfortunately, many entrepreneurs only realize this once their business has grown beyond a certain point, and they are forced to acknowledge the significance of business intelligence for their success. Businesses have become adept at leveraging data and BI tools […]
SUMMARY This document highlights the security features of Power BI, according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF). The NIST CSF is a guide for organizations to manage and reduce cybersecurity risk. Irrespective of the size of the business, the below guide will help to explain the best use of […]
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The following diagram shows a typical Big Data Infrastructure Design. This is from one of Allied Consultant’s Big Data works.
Cluster Expected Volume Benchmark hardware Project Hardware requirements Cores RAM # nodes Disk Source 6 Million records / month ~ 3 records per second HDFS 6 million/month 1 namenode, 20 datanodes, 2 CPU/node, 64GB RAM/node 1 6G 1 : Master 3: Slaves 120% of 6G =7.2GB/month Kafka 4 topics 6 million/month per topic 1 nodes […]
With the help of Big data, Small Businesses can gain the competitive edge they require to stay ahead of the curve. For beginners, Big data includes large data sets of information that can reveal insights about your customers to help you make valuable business decisions. Data can help you to compose an overall strategy for […]
Data Scientists are known for having a knack for statistics, data analysis, etc. to understand and obtain insights from a given dataset, usually quite enormous in quantity. If you don’t think you have this skill set, but the career appeals to you, you can always take a course like a springboard data science which will […]
What is a Dashboard? A Dashboard is a visual display of the most important information needed to achieve one or more objectives; consolidated and arranged on a single screen so the information can be monitored at a glance. A user interface that organizes, integrates, and presents mission-critical information, pulled from multiple sources to users in […]
Resource Management in Information Technology There is a whole host of technology available nowadays to ensure that your IT hardware resources manages efficiently. You may have a data center in-house, and a few cloud nodes/services/apps which together may constitute your investment in hardware. That would translate to resource capacity: memory, disk, and processor. In the […]
Synchronous vs Async pipelines Synchronous big data pipelines are a series of data processing components that get triggered when a user invokes an action on a screen. e.g. clicking a button. The user typically waits till a response receives to intimate the user of the results. In contrast in asynchronous implementation, the user initiates the […]