The whole idea of Big Data brings with it its own special tools and frameworks that are needed to manage the truly enormous mountains of data that are generated, analyzed, and correlated.
One of the frameworks that has found success in Big Data is Hadoop, which is managed by the Apache Foundation. Hadoop is used by a wide variety of organizations to manage and process large quantities of data across computer clusters using simple programming models.
Trend Micro also uses Hadoop in ...
Facebook Home is now available for (some) Android devices, aside from its launch device, the HTC First. It is easy to understand this direction that Facebook has chosen to take. There are many users who would find something like Facebook Home useful and would like it: people who use their mobile devices primarily to connect with their Friends and share likes, updates, photos, and other such social activities.
However, people are becoming genuinely concerned about how much of our data ...
Last April 7, several Israeli websites were targeted by the hacker group Anonymous. Based from reports, certain government and private Israeli websites were not accessible and were possibly victims of a DDoS attack.
Media coverage of DDoS attacks tend to cover on whether or not the targeted site is knocked offline, and not particularly how they are carried out. This is a mistake, as this ignores the fact that many of the "attackers" are actually systems that have been infected with ...
March 31 was something of a... busy day on the calendar, so some people may not have noticed that it was also World Backup Day. It's as good a day as any to remind people about how important it is to back up your data.
People today are generating more and more data. As our infographic shows, the mobile devices that are part of many of our lives generate - and store - amounts of data that would have been unthinkable ...
A few weeks ago, a couple of colleagues and I attended the annual RSA Conference in San Francisco. My colleagues have already offered their detailed descriptions of the event; instead I'll discuss the broader themes I saw at the event.
Contrasting atmopsheres
The exhibit floors were cheery - almost festive, in fact - with loud chatter, freebies, and buffets. Vendor booths offered an attraction that ranged from contests, to illusions, to arcade games. Even the keynotes on the first day started with ...
