Click to learn more about author Andreea Jakab. Big data and analytics projects can help your business considerably, but their performance directly depends on the hardware used. One common issue is the lack of scalability, when your project starts using an increased amount of resources. Not being able to grow your infrastructure along with your […]
Don’t Make These Six Big Data Mistakes
Click to learn more about author Evelyn Johnson. Why do big data projects fail? They do; that’s for sure. Gartner estimated that 60 percent of big data projects fail to achieve their desired objectives. A year later, they revised this figure to 85 percent, admitting they were “too conservative” with the original estimate. So, going […]
Learning from BigCo’s Attempts to Leverage Data
by Angela Guess Peter Aiken has published a new article titled “Succeeding at Data Management–BigCo Attempts to Leverage Big Data.” The article was published in the Journal of Data and Information Quality, and is free to download here. Aiken writes in the abstract, “In a manner similar to most organizations, BigCompany (BigCo) was determined to […]
How Big Data Systems Can Empower You to Ask New, Better Questions
by Angela Guess Roy Wilds recently wrote in Information Management, “You think you know what’s in your data. But there may be a lot more there than you realize. The combination of big data and modern data science can empower you to ask questions in entirely new ways, and uncover answers locked away in your […]
MapR Redefines Big Data Landscape with Dedicated Enterprise-Grade Spark Distribution
by Angela Guess A recent article out of the company reports, “MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the industry’s only converged data platform, announced today at Spark Summit a new enterprise-grade Apache Spark distribution. This new distribution includes the complete Spark stack engineered to support advanced analytic applications, along with patented innovations in the MapR Platform, […]
Big Data’s Big Liability Issues
by Angela Guess Ryan Garner recently opined in Quartz, “Let’s just say it: In the future, successful data companies will not own any data. The data economy is the engine of growth for all digital businesses. However, the landscape is changing. We are heading for a data crunch. Data has huge economic value but it […]
New Wikibon Report Shows Big Data Projects Moving to the Cloud
by Angela Guess Paul Gillin reports in SiliconAngle, “Big data projects are ready to move to the cloud on a large scale, but a host of concerns about regulations, ownership and the structural impediments of moving large amounts of data off-site will limit mass adoption of public cloud platforms, says a new Wikibon report. The […]
Don’t Let Bad Data Derail Big Data Projects
by Angela Guess Elbert Hearon writes in Datanami, “Big data means that once minute bad data problems now become magnified as big problems that can cause flaws with the very analytical results that were painted as one of the values of big data. As the proliferation of data continues, it is very important for organizations […]
Is Big Data Overrated?
by Angela Guess Dorie Clark recently wrote in Entrepreneur, “Big Data, and its enormous power to quantify and illuminate phenomena, is all the rage. But author and entrepreneur Martin Lindstrom says it may be overrated. ‘Big Data is about analyzing the past,’ he says, and it’s ‘safe and accepted’ in our society to predict future […]
5 Signs You Don’t Get Big Data
by Angela Guess Bernard Marr recently wrote in Forbes, “I’ll admit it: Big Data is not my favorite term. It really trivializes and summarizes the trend too far, creating misconceptions and misperceptions of what this incredible shift in our technology, culture and world actually is. Despite the fact that I bill myself as a “big […]