Click to learn more about author Mathias Golombek. I can remember the first time people started to talk about “Big Data”. It may be a hackneyed phrase today, but some years ago it took the world of BI and analytics by storm. What then ensued was a mad frenzy to come up with a good […]
The University of the Future: Five Ways to Use Data and Analytics to Start Your Online Degree Program
Click to learn more about author Eric Spear. The face of the higher-education student is changing. In the past, the majority of college students were fresh out of high school or another undergraduate program, but 2018 statistics show that 74% of American undergrads are considered “nontraditional” students. With nontraditional students comes the need for higher-education […]
Benchmarking Hadoop Performance: On-Premises S3-Compatible Storage Keeps Pace with HDFS
Click to learn more about authors Gary Ogasawara and Tatsuya Kawano. When deploying Hadoop, scaling storage can be difficult and costly because the storage and compute are co-located on the same hardware nodes. By implementing the storage layer using S3-compatible storage software and using an S3 connector instead of HDFS, it’s possible to separate storage […]
How to Become a Data-Driven Enterprise
Click to learn more about author Matthew Baird. Over the past few years, becoming “data-driven” has emerged as a popular objective for organizations across a variety of industries. Simply put, being data-driven involves leveraging existing operational and customer data as well as external data sources for both tactical and strategic decision-making. Such an approach complemented […]
Predictions 2019: Data Analytics Trends to Watch
Click to learn more about author Mathias Golombek. Predicting the technology trends that will impact businesses in 2019. Over the years we’ve tracked the changing use of data within business. Every year, data becomes more important, and closer to the heart of successful businesses. We’ve also seen a maturity in how we view data – […]
Extracting Maximum Value from Containers with Smart Availability Software
Click to learn more about author Don Boxley. Across vertical industries, containers are revered for their capacity to significantly impact the software and application development process. These portable execution environments enable a host of enterprise benefits readily codified into the following three areas: Scale Out: Containers scale out quickly, allowing any number of users to […]
Is Advanced Analytics the Next Logical Step Beyond Self-Serve Business Intelligence?
Click to learn more about author Kartik Patel. Many organizations have grown comfortable with their business intelligence solution, and find it difficult to justify the need for advanced analytics. The advantages of advanced analytics are numerous and those advantages are based on the ability to further improve the business, increase user adoption (and therefore user empowerment […]
The Most In-Demand Big Data Skills and for IT and Data Professionals
Click to learn more about author Gilad David Maayan. The World Wide Web has grown to include more than 1.8 billion websites. Of these, about 200 million or less are active. With each passing day, thousands of new sites are added to the mix to intensify the already cutthroat competition. 2017 was a very productive […]
How to Get Your Board Members to Love Big Data
Click to learn more about author Oksana Sokolovsky and Rohit Mahajan. As folks in the technology business, we tend to see the best possibilities for emerging technologies; we can easily visualize how the latest and greatest can be used to make us more productive and profitable. Even when we’re hesitant to be the first to […]
Is it Time to Drain the Data Lake?
Click to learn more about author Karthik Ramasamy. It sounds appealing – easily store all of your data in a single location, where all of your users and applications can access it and put it to use. It’s no wonder that interest in data lakes rose rapidly at the same time hype around “Big Data” was […]