We sat down with Khurram M. Pirzada, Big Data practice lead at Allied Consultants to ask him about the main challenges that developers come across an Apache Cassandra database (and NoSQL databases in general). Here are the major issues, along with their solutions that Pirzada highlighted. 1. Read-time Degradation “Relational databases cannot handle very large […]
The five key challenges of working in in Hadoop MapReduce are: Lack of data storage and support capabilities Lack of application deployment support Lack of analytical capabilities in database Issues in online processing Privacy and Security challenges Download Your Free Big Data Hadoop Software Requirements Document Here MapReduce defined IBM defines MapReduce as two separate and distinct tasks […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK0UN394ltM I dont think the architecture they are pushing is the best idea in all scenarios but its still a pretty exciting view of where this is all heading.
Preface The questionnaire is based on TDWI’s Big Data Maturity Model Guide 2013. We have tweaked it into a questionnaire to help big data project managers & CIOs to help identify their respective stage in the maturity model, and do some quantification of their current state of big data maturity (based on the scores assigned […]
The post has been updated since it was last published. Big Data pilot A fast growing data integration company, Informatica, observed that “the explosive growth of Big Data is no longer a news. Being within the reach of most organizations today, the challenge is to adopt the big data or hadoop technologies by starting with […]
Building practice in a new technology area can be a daunting task for IT consultants. We’ve asked our in-house experts regarding the best practices that IT consultants can use when they start building their Internet of Things practice. We’ve also cross-checked these with the industry experts in the IoT domain. Here are the 9 best practices. […]
We have curated 10 questions that consultants and project managers can use to discover if an IoT project/application can help a business. Use these questions to start conversation with your existing clients or prospects to discover if IoT can add value to their business. The questions can also help you to determine the existing IoT […]
Building practice around new technologies or skill sets can be a daunting task for the IT consulting companies. Consulting firms face many challenges in marketing their expertise despite having subject matter experts on their bench. We use an integrated methodology to market the technical skills of consultants & consulting firms. The following framework can be used […]
We recently did a project on the home automation side of IoT. The idea was to derive useful information related to power consumption (a big problem in our part of our world) regarding the AC premises and then take actions to reduce the utility costs Observe usage patterns and optimize it based on lowest cost […]
Customer Background Customer Profile: German multinational automotive manufacturer Country of Deployment: Germany Industry: High-tech. Automobile Manufacturing Challenge The automotive company planned to execute the soft-prototyping of all the automobile models that it produced throughout its globally located factories. A major challenge was designing the simulation process of the whole manufacturing process of the automobile based […]