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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Reduce risk in real-time

Posted Nov 20, 2012 - 09:00 am

Deloitte Development LLC's "Reference Architecture for Risk" helps organizations build value by taking a risk intelligent approach to managing financial, technology and business risks.
Where's the big data in healthcare IT? Look in the mirror

Posted Nov 15, 2012 - 09:00 am

Our personal big data store, roughly 150 zettabytes, may allow medical practitioners the ability to craft more precise diagnoses and treatments tailored to our individual bodies.
The big deal about healthcare IT

Posted Nov 13, 2012 - 09:00 am

The U.S. healthcare industry is arguably the world’s largest, most inefficient information enterprise, but interoperable EHRs may help trim up to $371 billion annually.
KPI dashboard a must for SMBs to drive business

Posted Nov 08, 2012 - 09:00 am

Even if you're a small business grappling with mere megabytes and gigabytes, you still must know your KPIs.
The FAA's ambitious NextGen program gets big data boost

Posted Nov 06, 2012 - 09:00 am

NextGen would not be possible without managing the big data generated by the world's air traffic, and in the U.S. alone at any given moment there are 7,000 planes aloft.
Analytics could save social networks as marketing tool

Posted Nov 01, 2012 - 08:00 am

Less than 1% of 77,000 online transactions examined by Forrester could be traced back to social networks. Analytics could help refine social media marketing strategies for better results.
IT under big data barrage

Posted Oct 30, 2012 - 08:00 am

Companies average 28 sources of incoming data, yet less than one-fourth of the information is available for analytical scrutiny, says one study.
Is your database a dinosaur?

Posted Oct 24, 2012 - 08:00 am

Companies must start thinking about deploying an enterprise data platform rather than simply upgrading their current database.
Nowcasting: Big data predicts the present

Posted Oct 22, 2012 - 05:16 pm

Big data is the key ingredient for predicting the present, or nowcasting, as it's called. Conceptually, it seems silly to use resources to predict the present, but nowcasting can save lives and make companies money.
Machine-to-machine communications will generate really big data

Posted Oct 18, 2012 - 08:00 am

Wireless communications carriers may soon face an unprecedented dilemma: Will they give preference on their networks to people chatting and texting on their mobile devices or to "things" jabbering with each other?

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