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Why and When You Should Use Redis from DATAVERSITY by Angela Guess The 2012...

Cisco Insists “Big Data is the Network”

by Angela Guess Quentin Hardy of the New York Times reports, “John Chambers says...

Catalyst to Showcase e-Discovery Platform at LegalTech

by Angela Guess Catalyst Repository Systems reports that the company will “showcase enhancements to...

US Government to Share Cyber Security Info with Private...

by Angela Guess Joseph Menn of the Insurance Journal writes, “The U.S. government will...

Upcoming Webinars

May 23 Webinar: Big Challenges in Data Modeling

DATE: May 23, 2013 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees. This Month’s Topic Focus: Modeling Governance – Is There Such a Thing? This Webinar is Sponsored by: About the Presentation We invite you to join us in this monthly DATAVERSITY webinar series, “Big Challenges with Data Modeling” hosted by Karen Lopez. Join Karen and two or more expert panelists each month to discuss their experiences in breaking through these specific data modeling challenges. Hear from experts in the field...
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May 29 Webinar: Como criar e gerenciar com sucesso uma organização de dados

DATE: May 29, 2013 TIME: 1 PM Eastern / 10 AM Pacific / 2 PM Sao Paulo (Brazil) / 6 PM Lisbon (Portugal) PRICE: Free to all attendees NOTE! This Webinar will be presented in Portuguese. We’re excited to reach out to our international audience in your native languages! About the Webinar For the last few years, data science, data analytics and data management have achieved tremendous exposure on all the media channels. However, it is really interesting that just a selected...
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May 30 Webinar: Helping HR to Cross the Big Data Chasm

DATE: May 30, 2013 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar Since last year, Big Data has become a major topic of discussion, catalyzing attention among the C-Level executives and driving investments and projects inside the enterprise. But there is one component that can put halt some initiatives : PEOPLE. According to McKinsey, there will be a shortage by 2018 of 140,000 to 190,000 people with analytical skills to work with Big Data. But which...
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Blogs

The Low Down on Recovering Deleted Files

May 22, 2013

by David Logue Recently, I’ve received several questions related to the recovery of deleted files. What happens when a file is deleted on a Windows-based system, and what causes those files to be lost and therefore unrecoverable? Further, what could I have done to...
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Infonomics and Info-accounting – Part 1

May 20, 2013

by John Ladley There are two ways to look at the phrase “Information is an asset.” One is metaphorically, which is the most common. “Information is an asset, so we need to exploit it to do better stuff.” That’s OK, but it falls short...
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Big Data Supports Development of a Visual Business Case

May 15, 2013

by James Kobielus Big data with zero relevance to your business needs is essentially the same as no data at all. Recently, I came across an interesting article that introduced the word “evidence” into the discussion of data relevance. It’s an interesting choice because...
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May 2013 Letter from the Editor

May 10, 2013

We just returned from San Diego, California having produced our annual Enterprise Data World 2013 Conference and Expo (#EDW13). It was an exceptional conference this year, though of course I am a bit biased. What made it exceptional this year to me was all...
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The Return on Data Governance

May 8, 2013

by Ian Rowlands Governance programs can’t survive unless there is demonstrable long-term financial benefit for the business. I’m just back from Enterprise Data World. If you missed it, start making plans for EDW 2014 in Austin. EDW is the gathering of the Data Management...
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Articles

Data Virtualization and Real-time Data

by Ezekiel James In today’s fast-paced Data Management landscape, latency is not an option. Data must be captured and processed in real time. In other words, Business Intelligence (BI) is virtually useless if captured and analyzed too late. The enterprise is in a situation where all BI must be captured, understood, and put to...

Analyzing Big Data: Lavastorm Analytics Engine

by Jelani Harper Any quick search indicates that there’s no shortage of analytics technologies to extract meaning from Big Data. Yet, a review of the recent activity of Lavastorm Analytics reveals that its Lavastorm Analytics Engine may be one of the more viable. At the end of April 2013, the company partnered with Datawatch...

A Closer Look at the MongoDB Document Database

by Paul Williams The document database, MongoDB, is currently one of the most prevalent NoSQL databases on the market. MongoDB offers both open-source and enterprise versions with the complete support of its developers 10gen. It provides an innovative tool for an individual developer experimenting with the freely available community edition and more robust functionality...