DATE: September 12, 2017, This webinar has passed. The recording is available On Demand. TIME: 2 PM Eastern, 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar From its widespread formal business practice to the scope of casual popular awareness, “Big Data” has a tendency to live up to its name. Featured in […]
Starting on the Right Foot with Your Big Data Strategy
by Angela Guess Mark Samuels recently wrote in ZDnet, “Big data is big business: analyst Gartner says the amount of chief data officers (CDOs) being appointed by major organisations rose from 400 in 2014 to 1,000 in 2015. The analyst predicts 90 per cent of large companies will have a CDO by 2019. Such CDOs […]
Enterprise Data World 2016: 8 Data-Driven Takeaways
How do you transform your enterprise from being data-incompetent to data-driven? How do you incorporate and leverage your legacy data assets with your latest Big Data assets? How do you successfully implement Data Quality, Data Governance, and Master Data Management into your existing business and IT structures without causing undue chaos or friction? How do […]
What Multi-Factor Authentication Has to Gain from Big Data
by Angela Guess Ben Dickson recently wrote in TechCrunch, “The fact that plain passwords are no longer safe to protect our digital identities is no secret. For years, the use of two-factor authentication (2FA) and multi-factor authentication (MFA) as a means to ensure online account security and prevent fraud has been a hot topic of […]
10 Big Data Books Worth Reading
by Angela Guess Jessica Davis of InformationWeek has put together a list of ten big data books that can help boost your career in data science, business intelligence, or beyond. Her list begins with, “Python Machine Learning. Python is one of the top languages suggested for data scientists to learn, and it’s a skill that […]
Applying Graph Databases and Semantic Technologies to Big Data
by Angela Guess Jans Aasman recently wrote in Information Management, “Many aspects of data management—particularly concerning big data—hinge upon the utility of graph databases. When deployed with additional semantic technologies such as ontologies, taxonomies and vocabularies, there are few analytic feats an RDF graph cannot achieve. In most instances, end users are largely unaware of […]
An Overview of the Threes Vs of Big Data
by Angela Guess David Gewirtz recently asked in ZDnet, “What is big data? The answer, like most in tech, depends on your perspective. Here’s a good way to think of it. Big data is data that’s too big for traditional data management to handle. Big, of course, is also subjective. That’s why we’ll describe it […]
Talend Integrates with Cloudera Navigator to Enable Big Data Governance
by Angela Guess A new article out of the company reports, “Talend, a global leader in big data integration software, today announced that Talend Big Data Integration now supports Cloudera Navigator. This integration enables end-to-end data governance on Apache Hadoop, including field-level data lineage and impact analysis. Today, an increasing number of organizations are subject […]
The Importance of Data Lake Governance
by Angela Guess Nicole Laskowski recently wrote in SearchCIO, “When Steve Cretney took a hard look at storage numbers, he noticed something that helped upend the IT strategy at Colony Brands Inc. ‘We observed, almost naively, that we have a couple of hundred terabytes of storage in our [storage area network (SAN)],’ said Cretney, CIO […]
Researchers Need to Change the Questions They Ask of Big Data
by Angela Guess Malte Ebach writes in Business Insider, “Big Data is changing the way we do science today… The data is vast, but the kinds of data and the formats they take are also new. Consider the hourly clicks on Facebook, or the daily searches on Google. As a result, Big Data offers scientists […]