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  • 'Big security' a natural, necessary extension of big data

    Posted August 23, 2012 - 2:40 pm

    Big data is poised to grow well beyond the enterprise - and anything we can imagine today. Think of how the assembly line changed the automobile and, consequently, our lives. Keeping big data secure will require an equally innovative approach. CIO.com columnist Bernard Golden calls it 'big security,' and he doesn't think the industry is ready for it yet.

  • Big data analytics today lets businesses play moneyball

    Posted August 23, 2012 - 2:12 pm

    Hype continues to surround big data analytics. But hype or not, data-driven decision-making is becoming central to management decisions at most enterprises. They are taking inspiration from Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics baseball team that turned to data analytics (known as Sabermetrics in baseball and made popular in the movie, "Moneyball") to assemble a competitive baseball team despite the organization's limited financial resources.

  • Investing for transformation in 2013

    Posted August 22, 2012 - 9:01 am

    How to maximize the return on your investments in disruptive trends like big data, cloud computing and mobility.

  • 4 questions to ask before starting a big data initiative

    Posted August 21, 2012 - 1:36 pm

    Big data holds much promise for organizations seeking ways to improve business processes. Before reaching that point, though, you need to know what data you'll need, how you'll get it, how you'll use it and what you expect to learn from it. Learn how to start answering those questions here.

  • Can Big Data solve the Olympics' Twitter problem?

    Posted July 31, 2012 - 12:35 pm

    The Olympics are showcasing the thrill of victory and the agony of the tweet.

  • Big Data bringing down big bucks from venture capitalists

    Posted July 26, 2012 - 11:32 am

    Venture capitalists have poured more than $1 billion into Big Data companies over the past year, with nearly half of that coming in the second quarter.

  • Data snatchers! The booming market for your online identity

    Posted June 30, 2012 - 7:05 am

    Make no mistake, your personal data isn't your own. When you update your Facebook page, "Like" something on a website, apply for a credit card, click on an ad, listen to an MP3, or comment on a YouTube video, you are feeding a huge and growing beast with an insatiable appetite for your personal data, a beast that always craves more. Virtually every piece of personal information that you provide online (and much that you provide offline) will end up being bought and sold, segmented, packaged, analyzed, repackaged, and sold again.

  • Can Big Data defeat Big Money in politics?

    Posted June 15, 2012 - 2:42 pm

    Money rules politics, but the emergence of data analysis in the campaign process could eventually level the playing field for outgunned candidates.

  • Ease Big Data hiring pain with cascading

    Posted June 9, 2012 - 7:46 am

    Finding developers with the skills to create MapReduce jobs in Apache Hadoop is challenging, but you can ease that hiring pain with Cascading, an open source Java application framework for building enterprise Big Data applications on Hadoop.

  • IDC: big data skills crisis needs vendor action

    Posted April 22, 2012 - 8:34 pm

    Enterprise IT departments are struggling to take advantage of the benefits big data can bring due to a lack of skills in the marketplace, according to IDC research VP Susan Feldman.

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    Out of Africa: Analytics for a better world

    Posted April 19, 2012 - 8:00 am

    Analytics is just one more tool for policymakers and authorities to respond to a crisis. However, unlike other technologies, analytics delivers precise information to those who need it most, when they need.

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    Global net capacity passes tablet test

    Posted April 17, 2012 - 8:00 am

    Tablets are mighty big data users. According to a recent Cisco report, the average tablet handles 3.4x the amount of data as a smartphone, 517 Mbytes per month v. 150 Mbytes per month. Given the staggering growth in the number of 4G LTE-ready tablets hitting the market in the months ahead, the potential spikes in data loads on mobile networks likely will be notable. Despite the growth, the networks haven't buckled yet.

  • Big data analytics may detect infection before clinicians

    Posted April 12, 2012 - 3:36 pm

    A Toronto hospital is implementing a clinical experiment using big data and real-time analytics to help save the lives of its tiniest patients.

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    In praise of the CDO

    Posted April 5, 2012 - 8:00 am

    It's time to invest in a chief data officer. Not only will they champion data as a strategic business asset, and a driver of revenue, they can also eliminate data turf wars in the enterprise.

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    Is your IT Team ready for operational business intelligence?

    Posted April 3, 2012 - 8:00 am

    Don't get carried away by the potential benefits of operational business intelligence (OBI) at the risk of taking down your business operations. The benefits are huge, but get experienced designers to build and deploy your OBI app.

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    Bettor analytics; Better democracy

    Posted March 29, 2012 - 8:00 am

    Analytics permeate life as we know it -- from NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament and big Hollywood movies such as Moneyball to the US Presidential elections.

  • How InfoChimps plans to fill the gap in the big data market

    Posted March 19, 2012 - 9:03 am

    InfoChimps has lots of strategic data to sell, but its true ambition is in helping companies manage and understand their own growing Big Data sets.

  • Using Big Data to analyze NBA shooting

    Posted March 12, 2012 - 3:09 pm

    An assistant professor at Michigan State University has mapped five years of National Basketball League scoring using Big Data.

  • Deep into big data

    Posted February 22, 2012 - 3:41 pm

    Democratization of data inside a company to make a business agile is important, says Kee Siong Ng, senior data scientist at EMC's Greenplum.

  • Why big data means a big year for Hadoop

    Posted January 26, 2012 - 7:20 pm

    Companies from IBM to Amazon are turning to Hadoop to manage the surge in data that needs storing.

  • Big data, NFC adoption set to grow in 2012: Deloitte

    Posted January 24, 2012 - 9:46 pm

    Near field communications (NFC) and big data have been tipped by research firm, Deloitte, as two technologies that will see greater uptake in Australia during 2012.

  • RainStor launches Hadoop version of enterprise database

    Posted January 18, 2012 - 10:11 pm

    Online database repository provider RainStor unveiled what it is calling the industry's first enterprise-class database that runs natively on Hadoop.

  • Hadoop solidified for production duty

    Posted January 4, 2012 - 9:10 am

    After nearly seven years of development and fine tuning, the Apache Hadoop data processing framework is finally ready for full production use, the developers of the software announced Wednesday.

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    IT trends to watch in 2012

    Posted December 21, 2011 - 5:39 pm

    IT trends for 2012 include: The consumerization of IT, bigger, badder security threats, the rise of big data and the cloud, and the IT economy.

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  • Microsoft Azure hosts Hadoop, other open-source apps

    Posted December 12, 2011 - 4:19 pm

    Making good on an announcement made earlier this year, Microsoft has installed a version of Apache Hadoop on its Azure cloud service. The company now offers a limited preview version of the open-source data analysis platform, often used for big data-style analysis.
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