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The flip side of the CDO story | #MITIQ
As as is happening with other regulated industries, the financial services sector is seeing a sharp increase in the number of chief data officers at the top of the business, but some companies are still going against the flow – and succeeding. One of the most notable examples is State Street Corporation, where the task ...
What you missed in Big Data: orchestration and security
Seven years after its creation at Yahoo, Hadoop has proven itself amongst the most efficient solutions for storing vast amounts of unstructured information on the market, now finding its way into enterprise products. Hortonworks Inc., a distributor of the open-source data crunching engine that spun out of the Internet giant, is turning to some of ...
The ‘father of data warehousing’ moves on to bigger things | #MITCDOIQ
The “father of the data warehouse” hasn’t talked data warehousing in a decade. Instead, Bill Inmon is tackling the thorny problem of making the 80 percent of corporate data that’s in unstructured form easily available for analysis. Inmon, who is credited with writing the first book about data warehousing as well as coining the term, said his ...
Report: SDN landscape divided among fast-moving majority and cautious pragmatics
The ability to provision network resources at the push of a bottom and upgrade the underlying infrastructure without worrying about compatibility issues may seem like a distant dream for practitioners today, but a new report suggests that programmable transport capacity is on a fast track to becoming enterprise reality. In a survey of 400 North ...
Where the chief privacy officer fits into the CDO revolution | #MITIQ
The growing importance of information in decision-making is pushing priorities such as accuracy and compliance higher up the corporate agenda, to the point that a growing number of organizations are now are appointing dedicated leaders charged with shouldering those new responsibilities. And as it turns out, that role doesn’t necessarily correspond to the chief data ...
On backdrop of net neutrality debate, Netflix taps AT&T for faster streaming
Netflix Inc. had entered a peering agreement in AT&T Corp. in May under which video will be streamed directly to the latter’s network instead of going through a backbone provider, according to a new report that has been confirmed by both companies. The middleman in question is Cogent Communications Group, Inc., one of the world’s ...
Analytics market consolidation continues as Ericsson, Novetta target new prospects
Data analytics is shaking up even seemingly mature markets as vendors see new avenues of growth enabled by the Internet of Things and cloud services. Swedish telecommunications equipment maker LM Ericsson is buying MetraTech Corp., a Boston-based provider of commerce and settlement software that boasts an added layer of “metadata-driven” smarts that provides analysis and reporting ...
The CDO vapor is solidifying into enterprise reality | #MITCDOIQ
Twelve months ago, predicting that the role of the CIO in its present form may eventually be replaced by a chief data officer (CDO), tasked not with managing systems but rather the information stored inside, would have earned the speaker blank stares at even the most tech savvy of organizations. During this week’s MIT CDOIQ ...
DARPA-backed project aims to dramatically cut WAN provisioning times
Despite the tremendous progress made in recent years on injecting more programmability into the stack, the wide-area network (WAN) remains a universal bottleneck that affects companies and cloud service providers equally. While companies like Amazon and Google have figured out how to scale across commodity servers within individual data centers, the process of connecting data ...
Analytics break: Big Data market splits into rival camps
A new trend has emerged in the open-source Big Data ecosystem over the last few months: top vendors scaling back and sometimes completely abandoning internal efforts to develop homegrown versions of hot new projects in favor of forming strategic partnerships with pure-play distributors. First it was Intel Corp. with its $740 million investment in Cloudera ...