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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Dark data tells many tales

Posted Sep 11, 2012 - 08:00 am

Servers in data centers generate an enormous trove of largely untapped log file data. Are you asking your dark data the right questions?
IT Management
Gartner dead wrong about big data hype cycle

Posted Sep 06, 2012 - 01:00 am

Big data is just about to hit its "peak of inflated expectations", according to Gartner's 2012 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. Me? Expectations aren't inflated enough.
IT Management
NFL big data blitz: Don't punt; go for it!

Posted Sep 04, 2012 - 08:00 am

Football teams almost always punt on fourth down, but there's statistical evidence showing such a strategy leads to fewer wins. So why do teams punt?
IT Management
Big data owes big debt to open source

Posted Aug 30, 2012 - 08:00 am

More often than not, open source technology is considered a toolbox in the analytics and database worlds, and not the competition.
IT Management
You can write, but you can’t hide. Big data knows your writing quirks

Posted Aug 28, 2012 - 08:00 am

Data scientists have been able to mine unstructured data to determine the identity of a document’s author. It seems we all have a “write-print” as unique as our fingerprint.
IT Management
The odds favor a career in analytics

Posted Aug 23, 2012 - 08:00 am

Luckily, in the U.S., at least, advanced study in analytics is possible at many schools.
IT Management
Here and now: The new era of real-time distributed data management

Posted Aug 21, 2012 - 08:00 am

A few industries are well-versed in distributed data management with a very low latency database infrastructure, but we need that mentality in all industries. It will take a conscious mind-shift among many in IT to adopt this real-time, distributed data management paradigm.
IT Management
Big data startups lure investment dollars

Posted Aug 16, 2012 - 08:00 am

Venture capitalists sense an opportunity in the big data market, and are ready to pounce. Entrepreneurs must be ready with ideas and products.
IT Management
Data centers are up to big data's power challenge

Posted Aug 14, 2012 - 08:00 am

Big data will continue to put pressure on IT operations in many areas, including power consumption. However, IT vendors will continue to squeeze more efficiencies out of hardware, assuring that big data will have data centers to process, store and serve it to users.
IT Management
Strategic weapon: Unstructured data delivers battlefield edge

Posted Aug 09, 2012 - 12:06 pm

Predictive analytics has moved into dangerous terrain. It’s now able to forecast battles in a war zone.
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