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Jim Holdsworth

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Jim Holdsworth is a contributor to the IBM Blog.

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19 November 2024

Explainer

What is MapReduce?

MapReduce is a programming model that uses parallel processing to speed large-scale data processing and enables massive scalability across servers.

4 November 2024

Explainer

What is a data platform?

A data platform is a technology solution that enables the collection, storage, cleaning, transformation, analysis and governance of data.

11 October 2024

Explainer

What is a data warehouse?

A data warehouse is a system that aggregates data from multiple sources into a single data store to help support analytics, business intelligence and AI.

20 September 2024

Explainer

What is data governance?

Data governance is the data management discipline that focuses on the quality, security and availability of an organization’s data.

6 September 2024

Explainer

What is pretexting?

Pretexting is use of a fabricated story, or pretext, to gain a victim’s trust and trick or manipulate them into otherwise harming themselves or their organization.