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by Angela Guess The Super Bowl may be over, but the implications of IBM and USC’s recent study to determine the fan-favorite quarterback will reach well beyond yesterday’s event. A few days before the game, Kevin Nosbusch wrote, “The media and sports industries have been completely transformed by technology. Today, fans are not only...
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by Angela Guess Symantec is set to acquire LiveOffice, one of the company’s archiving partners. With this acquisition, Symantec hopes to strengthen its e-discovery and unstructured data governance offerings. According to the article, “Symantec, a security, backup and storage provider, stated it had bought privately held LiveOffice for $115 million in a deal announced alongside the...
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by Angela Guess Eric Savitz has written an excellent article for Forbes regarding the undue burden that SOPA and PIPA would place on businesses with regards to their online linked data. Savitz writes, “The Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) are singularly bad ideas, seemingly drafted because the Digital...
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by Angela Guess The SOPA protest is in full swing today in an effort to keep the internet and its data free and flowing. The Huffington Post reports, “Thousands of websites, including some of the most popular, are going dark today to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act, a bill which is designed to thwart...
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by Angela Guess The four Vs of Big Data are volume, velocity, variety, and value. Amir Halfon recently wrote an article regarding how to handle the variety of Big Data. He writes, “Variety refers to various degrees of structure (or lack thereof) within the source data. While much attention has been given to loosely-structured...
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by Angela Guess Stephen Wolfram of Wolfram Alpha is trying to get the ball rolling on a new top-level internet domain (i.e. .com, .org). The domain that Wolfram is proposing is .data: “What would be the point? For me, it’s about highlighting the exposure of data on the internet—and providing added impetus for organizations...
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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 Michael Brackett The term unstructured data has been used prolifically over the past several years, but has not been defined with a comprehensive, denotative definition. Like many other terms in data resource management, unstructured data is part of a large and growing lexical challenge. That lexical challenge must be resolved, and terms must...
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by Angela Guess Antony Savvas recently reported, “Only one third of companies are able to effectively use Big Data to assist their business’ decision-making, according to a global survey by EMC. The EMC Data Science Study questioned 500 ‘data scientists’ and business intelligence professionals at firms across the US, the UK, France, Germany, India...
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by Angela Guess Likewise has announced a new software offering “to better access, secure, manage and audit unstructured data across multiple platforms – financial files, medical records, office documents, media and big data files, which account for nearly half of all stored information. Companies have been limited in their ability to control unstructured data...
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