Metadata Management implies a set of activities, which administer data for better usage and outcomes. Thus, this practice involves establishing stringent roles, responsibilities, policies, and processes to ensure that data-driven information is available, accessible, sharable, and maintainable across an organization for the best analysis and application of such information in daily business. In that sense, Metadata […]
Big Data to the Rescue?
Click to learn more about author Evelyn Johnson. In a world ravaged by COVID-19, having access to the right data is literally a matter of life or death. Governments need authentic data for tracing the possible contacts of an infected person and identifying potential clusters. But that information gets accumulated on a day-to-day basis and […]
Eight Big Data Analytics Options on Microsoft Azure
Click here to learn more about Gilad David Maayan. Raw data is meaningless. It is the process of big data analysis that turns meaningless datasets into actionable insights. Big data analytics is the foundation of data-driven decisions, which enable organizations to avoid guesses and hopeful intuition. Before you can transform your raw data into insights, […]
Big Data Trends in 2020
In 2019, automation frameworks designed to process big data made it much easier to go from the start of a new analytics project to the production phase. Additionally, per the requirements of GDPR, many more businesses now have Chief Protection Officers (and likely Chief Data Officers), which has, in turn, resulted in their shifting from […]
Cloud Migration Challenges and Benefits
The Internet is full of statistics demonstrating the ever-growing numbers of data generated daily. Many datasets are now in the Petabyte and Exabyte range. Big data analysis systems process and analyze these massive amounts of data. Big data is traditionally processed on-premises, due to its need for large processing power. However, in recent years, we […]
Case Study: Big Data Analytics Advance Sutton Bank Forward
Sutton Bank is an FDIC-regulated, Ohio state-chartered bank. They have been in the payment business about 20 years, specifically in the prepaid space. Jeff Lewis, Senior Vice President of Payments and Prepaid Card Services at Sutton Bank, says that payment and card services are an increasingly popular offering for financial institutions, provided they can keep […]
Quantzig Adds New Services to Their Big Data Analytics Solutions Portfolio
According to a recent press release, “Quantzig, a leading analytics advisory firm, has announced the addition of new services to its big data analytics solutions portfolio. The comprehensive portfolio of big data analytics solutions is designed to help companies tackle the complexities associated with the staggering data volumes. The need to analyze data and extract […]
How Long Will IT Remain a Viable Career in the Age of AIOps?
Click to learn more about author James Kobielus. IT tends to go in and out of fashion as a career path, in terms of the money, glamour, and potential for career advancement. But it has always seemed to be a safe bet, in terms of giving the reasonably competent access to a wide range of opportunities. […]
Three Ways to Cut the Fluff Out of Big Data Analytics in the Cloud
Click to learn more about author Mathias Golombek. I think there are three key things you can do to make sure you take the right approach to Big Data Analytics in the cloud. These days everyone is talking about Big Data in the hope that it will transform their business and many now see the […]
Handling Complex Data Storage with Blockchain and the Cloud
Blockchain technology, a distributed and secure database system, has been making significant advances since it first started gaining popularity a few years ago. It started out in the cryptocurrency world, but is also finding considerable usage in banking and finance, as well as asset settlement. But, can blockchain also be used for other use cases […]