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by Rod MacPherson When I attended Enterprise Data World (EDW) 2011 in Chicago, I was fortunate to sit in a session led by April Reeve describing how she used the DAMA Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBOK) to develop a maturity assessment instrument that she deployed within a mortgage bank. Taking inspiration from this,...
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by Angela Guess Rita Boland of Signal Online recently wrote, “Big data can mean big problems for the people trying to derive usable information from a large number of sources. Since coming into existence in March, the Scalable Data Management, Analysis and Visualization Institute has made strides to resolve this issue for programs running on supercomputers....
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by Angela Guess According to a new article in Businessweek, “Government agencies and commercial enterprises are inundated with both structured and unstructured data that they must analyze, extract essential information from, and act on, all under extreme time pressure. Doing this in a cloud environment with a solution that has both a big-data infrastructure...
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by Angela Guess Robert Plant of the Harvard Business Review recently opined that Big Data doesn’t work if the small things are ignored. He writes, “Ever waited hours, in vain, for a repair service to arrive at your home? Of course you have. We all have. Chances are you’ve also shifted your allegiance away...
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by Angela Guess Jeff Kelly of Wikibon.org recently argued that Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, is a bit off with his message at this week’s Oracle OpenWorld event: “Larry Ellison’s target was archrival SAP. ‘SAP has an in-memory machine, you know, that’s a little bit smaller than what we offer,’ Ellison said at OpenWorld...
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by Angela Guess Irfan Khan of IT World recently discussed the big bucks in Big Data. He writes, “Not everyone believes big data is a big concern. Is it just the latest headline scare to boost a CIO’s budget? Is it merely an incremental step in IT’s growing importance for business? Or is it...
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by Angela Guess Rich Miller of Data Center Knowledge has written a rebuttal to the New York Times recent article on data center energy consumption. Miller writes, “It is telling that the New York Times, in today’s front-page story about the data center industry and its energy usage, begins with an anecdote from 2006. The Times...
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by Angela Guess Syncsort has announced that the company has partnered with Cloudera to simplify Apache Hadoop for the enterprise. According to the article, “Syncsort, a global leader in high-performance data integration solutions, today announced that its DMExpress® data integration software is now a Cloudera Certified Technology, certified for CDH4 (Cloudera’s Distribution Including Apache Hadoop,...
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by Angela Guess Roibín Ó hÉochaidh of the UC Berkeley News Center recently discussed the Institutional Data Management and Governance initiative to “ transform Berkeley’s smorgasbord of fragmented data systems into an all-purpose data warehouse where analysts and decision-makers, staff and students can easily access integrated, reliable information presented in a customizable, user-friendly framework. ‘When...
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by Angela Guess Derrick Harris of GigaOM reports, “Disney is a massive company, but when it comes to its big data platform, the entertainment conglomerate looks a lot like a startup. Kind of, that is. By the sheer power of its will (and ingenuity), a small team has been able to craft a large...
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