Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Big Data”
Customer Profile Our client operates in the financial services sector as a fully-licensed, independent investment advisory and asset management company. They are based in Zurich, Switzerland and are a team of highly skilled Swiss bankers, financial analysts and multi-disciplinary professionals. The company offers an integrated, client-focused approach to the management and protection of global financial assets. Their international team consists …
Customer Profile EBP is a leading, internationally active enterprise with planning, construction, consulting, IT, and communications business units. EBP executes consulting projects in the fields of security, water, environment, energy, climate as well as software development projects. CloudSigma works with their IT consulting department headquartered in Switzerland. Their customer CCGEO (Conference of State Centres for Geoinformation) has established a consolidated …
Customer Profile ESA RSS (Research and Service Support) is a service provided by the European Space Agency (ESA). ESA is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world. ESA RSS service provides resources to support …
Customer Profile The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) is an independent intergovernmental organisation with 34 state members. It is both a research institute and a 24/7 operational service. It produces and disseminates numerical weather predictions to its Member States. This data is fully available to the national meteorological services in the Member States. The Centre also offers a …
Long gone are the days when MongoDB was the ‘new kid on the block’. These days, it has evolved to become the go-to solution for many people who are leaving relational databases behind. In this article, I’m not going to make the argument for why you should use MongoDB over {insert other NoSQL database}, or even why you should use …
Big Science in Europe has been busy and here at CloudSigma we’ve been heavily involved in helping to build a federated cloud platform that can address the needs of Big Science. It is something I’m personally very excited about as it holds then potential to unleash large-scale computing for some of the world’s thorniest problems including genetic research, climate change, …
Last month, our CEO Robert Jenkin joined other industry thought leaders, including Paul Miller, Jo Maitland and Dana Gardner, in the GigaOM webinar: How to make Big Data Work in the Cloud. As Big Data and cloud go hand-in-hand and are often discussed simultaneously, the four panelists had a lot to cover, including hybrid clouds, cloud security and the importance …
With 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created every day, it’s not surprising companies are worried about the advanced computer infrastructure required to handle their data-intensive workloads. Such infrastructure is not only expensive, but also difficult to maintain. Luckily, the answer to this concern may lie in today’s most innovative technology environment: cloud computing. By taking advantage of powerful cloud computing …
