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The ability to utilize cloud servers in the automobile industry is a relatively recent development. But one that many believe is going to be the next big thing in car technology. In fact, many cars are already equipped with advanced entertainment systems that are set up to utilize the retrieval of data from a personal cloud server. A cloud server has several uses for cars, but all relate back to one simple goal: synchronicity.

According to a survey by Information Week, almost half of all business IT professionals haven’t heard of NoSQL (44%). With such a significant number of professionals unaware of this technology, why should you switch to this type of data collection and storage format? The advantages of NoSQL are compelling and will only get more compelling as data storage needs continue to increase exponentially in years to come.

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.