Hadoop: Pros And Cons For Enterprise Users There's been plenty of buzz about how Hadoop can store, process, and analyze huge files and large volumes of files like no other technology before it. But is this open source distributed big data system really suited for enterprises? We look at the pros and cons.
Gartner 2017 CIO Agenda: Digital Ecosystems, Interoperability, Bimodal IT Digitization, creating a new level of organizational interoperability, and the practice of bimodal IT are among the priorities for CIOs, according to the Gartner 2017 CIO Agenda. See how your IT priorities stack up.
IT In Danger Of Being Marginalized, Accenture Warns An Accenture survey completed earlier this year shows declining confidence in enterprise IT, greater use of external cloud services. But new risks are coming with the growth of Shadow IT: both data security and the ability to predict IT costs are becoming more precarious.
Gartner: IT Spending Will Hit $3.5 Trillion In 2017 At its Symposium/ITxpo show, Gartner released new worldwide IT spending numbers that predict enterprises will spend up to $3.5 trillion on technology in 2017. That's an increase of about 3% over 2016, with much of that money going toward software and services.
