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Hadoop and Big Data Analytics

Shantha Kumari

Gartner defines Big Data as “high volume, velocity and variety information assets that demand cost-effective, innovative forms of information processing for enhanced insight and decision making”.

Big data is data that, by virtue of its velocity, volume, or variety (the three Vs), cannot be easily stored or analyzed with traditional methods.

Big Data Characteristics

The term covers each and every piece of data your organization has stored till now. It includes all the data stored both on-premises or in the cloud. It could be papers, digital, structured and non-structured data within your company.
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Possible Brexit looms large over the IT sky

Shantha Kumari

Britain will get to vote on the referendum in the United Kingdom about European Union membership on June 23, (the scenario in which the UK leaves the EU). Whatever the possible outcome will be, the so-called “Brexit” will have more than its share of ups and downs and it will definitely influence the UK’s economy. While Europe’s information technology industries would not spend sleepless nights, the same cannot be said about Britain.

Brexit referendum - June 23

But what does the #Brexit means for the Cloud Computing industry. Brexit is a potential Operational Risk and has a real impact on individual companies. Employees, customers, suppliers, investors and investments will all feel the heat from this decision. Here are some areas where it is most likely to impact your organization.

Sysfore can help you tide over this confusion, in case Britain agrees for a Brexit. Having over a decade’s worth of cloud expertise, we can make the smooth transition from a UK data center to any region of your choice. Contact us at info@sysfore.com or call us to know more.
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DevOps on the AWS Platform

Jatinder Virdee

DevOps on AWS has always been a critical business decision for many businesses. Its becoming important for businesses to analyse when to use native tools and applications and when they need to turn to a third party partner to help them manage their infrastructure, especially if they are opting to use the public cloud for their devops strategy.

AWS has two key features like scalability and API automation which makes it the go to platform for a DevOps model. However, the challenge arises when enterprises using legacy systems for the longest time, treat Ops as a secondary decision in the business.

Sysfore Technologies, a Bangalore based cloud management provider and AWS partner, helps businesses move to DevOps on AWS.

“Sysfore’s transition from web hosting to cloud computing, and shifting from  siloed working groups to DevOps, took some years to implement. We had many challenges from customer demand for newer services and getting people with the right skill set to gain the internal expertise required to manage this platform. But today, we have seen immense growth and we keep adding new products, services and functionalities in our AWS portfolio .Says Ajith Mathew George- CTO- Sysfore Technologies.

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