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by Angela Guess Larry Hardesty reports, “There are a host of mathematical tools for finding possible relationships among data, but most of them require some prior knowledge about what those relationships might be. The problem becomes much harder if you start with a blank slate, and harder still if the datasets are large. But...
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by Angela Guess Edd Dumbill recently commented that 2011 was the “coming out” year for Big Data, and 2012 will surely lead to even bigger things for the expanding trend. Dumbill writes, “Looking up the stack, there’s already an early cohort of tools directed at programmers and data scientists (Karmasphere, Datameer), as well as...
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by Abayomi Oloko Securing enterprise information has never been more challenging. The 21st century has been bombarded with technological innovations aimed at a tech savvy youthful market and communication is getting more open in a world that is truly getting smaller by the day; we are living in a global village. Traditionally, security has...
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by Angela Guess Arthur Cole writes, “Big Data may be a fact of life for many enterprises, but that doesn’t mean we are all fated to drown under giant waves of unintelligible and incomprehensible information. In fact, the very definition of Big Data holds that loads can only acquire the term if they exceed...
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by Angela Guess Fahmida Rashid reports, “Many companies still fail to adequately manage user privileges and protect sensitive data, exposing them to the risks of data breaches, according to a study from Hewlett-Packard and the Ponemon Institute. A survey of 5,500 IT professionals around the world found that more than half the organizations were...
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by Angela Guess A recent article takes a look at the solutions that large corporations are turning to in order to properly track and report their sustainability data. It states, “Corporations around the world are being challenged to measure, manage and report their organizational energy, carbon and sustainability performance. Whether due to rising energy...
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by Angela Guess Margaret Dawson, vice president of marketing at Symform has made her predictions for the coming year: “In 2012, it’s all about the data and the cloud, the intersection of these two, and how related high level trends will drive new ways of developing, managing and deploying technology. First we will see...
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by Angela Guess James Phillips, co-founder of Couchbase recently answered a few questions about NoSQL and Big Data in general. When asked to explain the difference between what Phillips refers to as Big Data and the Big User, Phillips responded that Big Data is the “Need to collect and store very large amounts of...
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by Angela Guess Dan Smith recently shared his insights regarding Big Data’s role in improving customer data management (CDM) and thus customer engagement (CE). Smith writes, “Big Data, by definition, is almost always event-oriented and temporal, and the subset of Big Data which is relevant to a CE system is almost always behavioral in...
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by Angela Guess Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering has launched a new Master of Science degree in analytics. The program was started after IBM suggested the degree and offered $40,000 in seed money. The inaugural class will begin next September. The article states, “The impetus is an overwhelming demand for analytics expertise spurred...
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