Let me explain, one trend being thrown around in the industry to combat the data storage issue is the idea of “data lakes” — a repository where you can store any and all data in...
It’s odd that cloud, which offers so much freedom to IT, has started to seem very un-free.
Obviously the public cloud is an amazing option. It’s flexible, agile, cost-effective – in short, almost all the things IT has always wanted. But it isn’t the right choice every single time. In fact,...
Do you have more data than you know what to do with? What about the technology to make sense of it all? Big data tools and technologies have become one of the biggest disruptive trends in business today. In fact, Business Insider recently stated that “Facebook ingests approximately 500 times...
As mentioned in my first post, we’re exploring the 2 critical things holding businesses back from exploiting the power of big data.
Up first is data management.
Throughout the 80’s up until fairly...
We’ve all heard it: the era of big data is upon us. Adapt or die.
Never before has data been more important in business. Companies like Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Netflix, Google and others are doing remarkable things with troves of consumer, user and employee information. How do they do it?
The...