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In the good old days before the Internet, when was talked of a network we meant the corporate network at the office. And traffic came no greater distance than employees down the hall connecting to the file server. Before installing a new server, it was obligatory to estimate how much server traffic you were likely to receive. Accordingly, namely, choosing CPUs, disk drives and network connections that could handle the anticipated traffic. That was before the global internet arrived.

The term big data is being heard with ever-increasing frequency in the corporate world. Businesses of vastly different types all need to prepare themselves for the onset of big data as soon as possible.

Big data is defined rather simply as the collection and storage of vast amounts of information. With today’s technologies, the collection and storage of massive amounts of data is not a challenging task, certainly not like it was in years gone by. The key issue for a business enterprise is determining how to utilize the massive amounts of stored data as a valuable resource.

osCommerce

osCommerce is a free option for an online shopping cart. It is a basic, quick, and easy Open Source eCommerce solution for setting up an e-store. It is PHP based and uses the MySQL database. This is an option that requires little to no effort to get up and running (at its basic level), has several add-on features, and it has been released under GNU General Public License.

When you use hosting services, you get to use a server from a data center. A server is nothing more than a very big and very expensive computer. That computer doesn’t have to run on an operating system, but it will make life a lot easier if it does. It is the same as how you require an operating system for your mobile device or desktop computer if you want to use it in the normal fashion.