As artificial intelligence reshapes our world, an environmental crisis is building in its digital wake. Data center power demand is projected to surge 160% by 2030, potentially generating up to $149 billion in social costs, including resource depletion, environmental impact, and public health. While most of the conversations around this focus on the energy processing demands […]
Dark Data Explained
Dark data often resides in the hidden recesses of a metaphorical jungle: It comprises unstructured and unused data accumulated over years of digital transactions, interactions, and operations. Dark data is information that has been collected but not actively used or analyzed, leaving its potential benefits to remain speculative. Unlike structured data, which fits neatly into databases […]
Unveiling the Power of Dark Data in Strategic Decision-Making
If you’ve never heard of dark data, you’re not alone. Setting aside the ominous name, dark data isn’t something that is inherently bad – although, in practice, it usually does end up this way. Dark data is usually unstructured data, though it can also be semi-structured or structured data that a business collects and stores but […]
Is Data the Achilles Heel of AI?
As Benjamin Franklin once said, “Nothing is certain except death and taxes.” Add this 21st-century irrefutable fact: The world can’t live without data. With its numbers, characters, facts, and statistics – the operations performed, stored, and analyzed – data has become an irreplaceable facet of daily life. We use data to identify strengths and weaknesses. It helps […]
How Enterprises Can Leverage Data Observability for Digital Transformation
Data is becoming increasingly relevant in our everyday lives, and larger companies invest heavily to acquire, store, and manage that data. Right now, over 12% of Fortune 1000 businesses have invested more than $500 million into big data and analytics, according to a NewVantage Partners survey. But are they using it effectively? In the same survey, […]
How Much Redundant, Obsolete, Trivial Data Do You Have?
Click to learn more about author Gary Lyng. Data is created at such a high volume that many IT executives simply don’t know what to do with it. In fact, many executives likely have no idea how or where their company’s data is stored, whether it’s been replicated, or what their internal Data Management practices […]
California’s Proposition 24 Confirms the Fate of Data Privacy
Click to learn more about author Kyle McNabb. The rolling thunder of data regulations rumbles on — much to the dismay of companies and the delight of consumers. The latest rainmaker (or taker) is California’s Proposition 24. This consumer privacy ballot initiative, containing the Consumer Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), was passed on November 3, 2020, […]
Liberated Data Can Power Your Company Through a Crisis and Beyond It
Click to learn more about author Karl Hampson. The staggering implications of the current pandemic have entirely changed today’s business landscape, leaving leaders looking for solutions that will help them thrive or even just survive this unprecedented environment. While the COVID-19 crisis poses many challenges — and there are indeed significant problems on many fronts […]
The Secret Weapon to Business Success: Unstructured Data
Click to learn more about author George Kobakhidze. For those in charge of their company’s cybersecurity efforts, they may stay up at night thinking, “Who is clicking on the most links in emails? Who opens the most phishing emails? Who uses simple passwords?” Amidst the best efforts to educate and build in best data practices […]
Domo Shines a Light on Dark Data with New Augmented Capabilities in the Business Cloud
According to a recent press release, “Today Domo announced it is making it even easier to get BI leverage at cloud scale in record time through new augmented capabilities in the Domo Business Cloud. In a new Dimensional Research study sponsored by Domo, 92% of individuals surveyed said they’ve made decisions in the past three […]