• Why the future of package delivery is better than drones

    Why the future of package delivery is better than drones
    Remember WebVan?
    The grocery delivery startup was considered "high-tech" because you could order groceries on a website and have them delivered. A darling of the late '90s dot-com boom, WebVan ultimately failed, becoming a poster child for the dot-com bust (the company went bankrupt in 2001) and a cautionary tale about the perils of so-called "last-mile" delivery -- the link in the supply chain that brings products to consumers.
    Delivery is expensive and inefficient. Unlike most parts of the su
  • BrandPost: Maturing of Hadoop in the Enterprise

    BrandPost: Maturing of Hadoop in the Enterprise
    As the big data conference season winds down for 2016, I believe that one of the key trends we can see prevalent across the board is that the Apache Hadoop platform has made long strides in maturing in the enterprise.Early on, Hadoop was adopted principally by those organizations that had “bleeding edge” use cases like sentiment analysis or needed predictive/prescriptive analytics on a massive scale. Today’s landscape looks notably different, with the average Hadoop cluster mor

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