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Can Big Data level the playing field for digital-native and non-native companies? | #BigData
In the age of Amazon, Zappos and other digital-native giants, smaller businesses with traditional operations have had to face a hard reality: A company with a technological advantage could come along and eat your lunch any day. Is there any way they can steel themselves against a technological Goliath rising and monopolizing their markets? One ...
Data scientist or data janitor? Democratize data to get more from the data pros | #BigData
Data scientists are a rare and coveted breed of IT professional. Data science is a relatively young field; many computer science programs at universities still do not offer data science specializations. The data scientists that do exist typically go to work for a few deep-pocketed companies who can afford them. What is a smaller company ...
Take it to the data: Working smarter, not harder on siloed data sets | #BigData
The main problem with getting Big Data to perform is, perhaps not surprisingly, its size. Massive data sets have to be stored somewhere, and this sometimes entails silos, which can be problematic for analytics. To get a single accurate answer to a Business Intelligence (BI) inquiry, huge quantities of data from across different categories have join in ...
IoT express: Can the path to value from IoT be shortened? | #BigData
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a lot like Big Data in both the challenges it poses and the promises it holds. Like Big Data, it seeks to collect vast, scattered intelligence into one place where it can be worked on to gain insights. IoT is young, and companies that want to implement it are ...
Reality check: Getting real about the public cloud and regulatory compliance | #BigData
Ever read the fine print on the regulatory compliance rules for storing customers’ data? It may be wise to give it a once-over before pulling the plug on the physical data center and throwing everything in the public cloud. Rules and regulations about where and how data can be stored are a major concern for some companies, and ...
Surfers wanted: How will companies ride the coming wave of data technologies? | #IBMCDO
Chief Data Officers (CDOs) are a small elite in technology, but their numbers are swelling. Not long ago, theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, interviewed staff from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock about the special CDO training program the school is rolling out. And theCUBE learned that the real driver of demand for CDOs is the mega wave of Big ...
Democratizing data, with less tell and more show | #IBMCDO
The role of Chief Data Officer (CDO) is new enough that fellow employees feel a bit fuzzy about it. To them, there is the company, with its day-to-day shopkeeping, and then there is the CDO, who occasionally steps out of the sterilized data lab to hand down some mathematical algorithms. But now companies are finding ...
Questioning the ‘Big’ in Big Data: Is it the size of data in the fight, or fight in the data? | #WikibonBoston
The very term “Big Data” implies that a company’s prospects for monetizing data can be measured in terabytes and petabytes. The thinking among many is that magnitude of data automatically translates to data value. However, some folks working directly with companies on their Big Data initiatives tell a different story. They say it’s not the ...
‘Stop head-faking us’: Getting the real odds on the enterprise cloud favorites | #OOW
This year’s Oracle OpenWorld 2016 began with fighting words form CEO Larry Ellison, who boldly claimed that the company is in fact the best in cloud despite stiff competition. The argument had some strong points and some not-so-strong ones. Did Ellison offer any hard numbers to back up his assertion? Some, but not enough, one ...
It’s halftime for on-prem vs. cloud — will your vendor be benched for the second half? | #OOW
Parsing the mixed messages analysts and vendors are giving lately about on-prem and cloud takes a keen ear. Some say that moving some applications to cloud is practically mandatory at this point, while others voice doubts about still-young cloud technology. They warn of the dreaded “lock-in” and say companies should keep the option to u-turn back on-prem ...