The Big Deal About Big Data

A fresh perspective on big data, analytics and BI from the CTO of Sybase

Irfan Khan is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Sybase, an SAP Company. Together with the architects residing within the technology offices, he is chartered with ensuring the voice of Sybase's customers and the need of the market are reflected within the company's innovation and product development. In addition to his CTO responsibilities, Khan oversees the evangelism efforts for Sybase. His evangelism group is responsible for seeding new products and driving new technologies within Sybase's most strategic accounts. Khan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science as well as a Master of Science degree in advanced computing from Kings College, University of London in the United Kingdom. In 2010, Khan received the InfoWorld CTO 25 Award and was named to the International Advisory Board of Cloud Expo.

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Life as we know it would be impossible without big data

Posted Dec 27, 2012 - 09:00 am

Big data has simplified complexities in so many business processes we hardly notice any longer. It permits our rapidly emerging self-service economy. It’s not just our future. It’s our present.
The promise of big data: Analytics for all

Posted Dec 25, 2012 - 09:00 am

As big data sources -- everything from social networks to operations -- touch more people inside the enterprise, more workers will need analytics to get value from the data.
Speedy in-memory databases put lid on costs

Posted Dec 20, 2012 - 09:00 am

With big data raining down on enterprises, DBAs are stuck trying to weather the storm.
Where does big data come from? Look in the mirror

Posted Dec 18, 2012 - 09:00 am

By 2015, 68% of the world’s unstructured data, such as you find on Facebook and YouTube, will be created by consumers
Sexiest geek alive: the data scientist

Posted Dec 13, 2012 - 09:00 am

Data scientists are suddenly sexy because of the pervasiveness of big data, not the newness of the position.
Spend pennies in the cloud for big data analytics

Posted Dec 11, 2012 - 09:00 am

Through Amazon Web Services, companies can test drive SAP HANA on big slices of their data for less than a dollar per hour.
NSF revises big data research grant process

Posted Dec 06, 2012 - 09:00 am

Grant proposals submitted to the US National Science Foundation on or after January 14, 2013 must use new guidelines.
Data geeks get it right again

Posted Dec 04, 2012 - 09:00 am

The recent US presidential election puts one more nail in the coffin of managing by gut feel. Weeks prior to Election Day, the data indicated a victory for the sitting President.
Location, location, location: A big data opportunity for retailers

Posted Nov 29, 2012 - 09:00 am

Retailers slowly edge their way to a deeper understanding of the value of "where" using location-based data.
HANA: The core of an integrated data strategy

Posted Nov 27, 2012 - 09:00 am

SAP HANA delivers core SQL access to relational data, and includes a native text search engine for unstructured and semi-structured data.

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