Data Rights as Law? Meet the Montana Legislator Turning Theory into Policy
From politicians to tech evangelists to just your everyday citizen who is paying attention to all the data news out there, everyone has an opinion when it comes to data rights, ethics and what businesses or governments should be doing to enforce proper collection and use.[read more]
Where Do You Draw the Line Between Relevancy and Privacy?
We have a love/hate relationship with ads. Whether they’re on television, in our favorite publications, or online, we love them if they’re relevant and interesting, or get annoyed when they get in the way of [insert whatever we’re doing]. I have to admit: I rarely watch a television show in real-time anymore. I’ll record a show, wait 20+ minutes, and “chase the show” with the recording—ad-free.[read more]
How Governments Can (and Should) Use Hadoop
While open record acts permit citizens to request data in a timely manner, the requested data is often scattered across several platforms. IT teams may have trouble locating and compiling all of it in a timely manner. Hadoop can improve efficiency and accountability by storing multiple data sets, retaining them for years, and combining them to meet specific data requests.[read more]
The Harmful Side of Big Data: Identity Theft
Big data presents a huge opportunity for cyber criminals to get access to millions of records with lesser effort. So how does one protect themselves from a big data breach?[read more]
Forecasting: It’s What’s Hot in Supply Chain Analytics
In the world of commerce, every business ecosystem has a type of supply chain that is critical to corporate operations. These supply chains rely on a network of plants and facilities to add value to and transform raw materials into a final product.[read more]
5 Things to Consider When Choosing the Right Cloud Storage
For many business owners, growing their companies remains a key focus that drives many of their business decisions. One tool that is being adopted more often, especially in recent years, to facilitate this is that of cloud computing.[read more]
Big Data: 25 Amazing Need-to-Know Facts
We surely see a lot of hype surrounding big data but I believe the following 25 facts speak for themselves and help to paint a realistic picture of the phenomenon we now call ‘Big Data’ - a phenomenon that is changing the world as we know it.[read more]
The Journey to Big Data Literacy: 9 Must-Read Books to Discover Your Inner Data Scientist
If you have relatively low big data understanding or knowledge, like the vast majority of us, then here is your way in, your ticket to thought leadership[read more]
Gartner’s Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2015
3D printing is forecast to reach a tipping point in the next three years due to streamlined prototyping and short-run manufacturing. Improving time-to-market, ensuring greater accuracy of highly customized products, and reducing production costs over the long-term are three of the many benefits companies are adopting 3D printing for today.[read more]
How Do IT User Personas Affect Efficiency?
An IT manager is probably not going to be doing too much when it comes to handling standard support tickets. Instead, managers need to be made aware of key reporting data pertaining to performance within the service desk. Tools that showcase and prioritize authorizations and requests for help on complex tickets can also help managers quickly identify issues that need their attention and respond efficiently.[read more]
Hadoop in Advertising: How Big Data Helps Make Smart Decisions
Data is, unquestionably, everywhere. Our computers, tablets, and mobile phones, our social media conversations, likes and follows, the emails we opt in to and those we open or delete, provide a constant flow of information. What do we like? What do we want? And, what services might we need?[read more]
Your Personal Cloud Meets the Enterprise
In organisations around the world employees are accidently merging their personal and professional cloud applications with dire results. Some of the issues include the routing of sensitive text messages to family members and the replication of confidential documents onto the servers of competitors.[read more]
From Wearable to Invisible Technology
I’m not suggesting now is the time to throw away your iPhone, or return your new Fitbit. These tiny, new devices are still a while from completion and adoption. Still, it’ll be interesting to see their different uses and which industries will take the innovation even further. Not to mention, it would be pretty cool to have a dragon tattoo computer on your arm.[read more]
How the Cloud Changes Business
Business is no longer carried on as usual – cloud computing has completely changed the game and how companies run themselves. Due to the introduction of the cloud and syncing technology advancements, how employees access company information, applications, share documents and work has gone through a face-lift in more ways than one, improving overall business processes and efficiencies.[read more]
Could Big Data Be the Cure for the Largest Ebola Outbreak Ever?
Anonymous data to track a possible outbreak is a lot different than knowing which cell phone owner has symptoms of Ebola, if they have replied to a warning message. What should be done if this is known and it can be seen that he or she travels across the region or has a lot of contact with others?[read more]
7 Big Data Blunders You're Thankful Your Company Didn't Make
When it comes to big data, learning from experience often means losing customers. Instead, let the other guys do the bidding for you, and learn from their mistakes.[read more]
4 Ways Hadoop Is Improving Our Healthcare System
With new medical advances every day, it’s no surprise that the healthcare field has a bold new technology that allows doctors and researchers to more easily access and learn about diseases, treatments, and cures. This technology, Apache Hadoop, is a big data storage and processing platform that gives healthcare providers the ability to effectively use much more data than has ever been possible.[read more]
5 Reasons Organizations Use Hadoop [INFOGRAPHIC]
Hadoop, which as named after the elephant toy of the inventor of Hadoop, was developed because the existing data storage and processing tools appeared to be inadequate to handle all the large amounts of data that started to appear after the internet bubble.[read more]
First Look: IBM Operational Decision Manager Advanced
ODM Advanced has been under development for about 2 years with early access for customers back in late 2013 and technology previews during 2014. At Insight 2014 IBM is formally launching the product as part of ODM 8.7 with a Q4 general availability. About 10 clients got engaged with the technology preview and about 20+ opportunities that are suitable use case are actively considering the solution.[read more]
Data Quality: Cash Drain or Cash Gain?
According to a 2009 Gartner study, businesses estimated that they are losing an average of $8.2 million per year because of poor data quality. Five years on, we are storing, managing and relying on more data than ever before. It’s more important than ever to mitigate the risk of poor data quality by investing in solutions that work.[read more]
Smart Cities Technology: Opportunities for Midsized Vendors
The term 'smart city' is becoming familiar around the world as urban areas realize that a great deal of benefit can come from connecting physical and digital worlds to better serve the needs of citizens and the administration of the city. A smart city doesn't just result from changes in infrastructure and technologies – it must embody new ways of thinking and planning.[read more]
Addressing 5 Objections to Big Data
For many businesses, especially smaller ones, big data can be almost incomprehensible and understandably so. There are so many different parts to it that if you take one look you may think it’s just too much for your business to ever use. Again, this is where big data in the cloud is so important.[read more]
A Closer Look at CloudFlare and Incapsula: Next Generation CDN Services
Today a new generation of CDNs built to harness advancements in hardware, networking and cloud computing. These next gen CDNs are radically different in architecture from their predecessors, and are designed to consolidate multiple technologies for website acceleration and security into a full-blown application delivery solution.[read more]
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“Sameer, great article! One other open source technology to mention is HPCC Systems from LexisNexis, a data-intensive supercomputing platform for processing and solving big data analytical problems. Their open source Machine Learning Library and Matrix processing algorithms assist data scientists and developers with business intelligence and predictive analytics. Its integration with Hadoop, R and ...”
“Thank you. Very informative. The demand for data storage will continue to increase exponentially.Perhaps at some point in time, providers would have adopt the strategy of deleting data beyond a specified time period. To ensure extremely crucial data is not lost, owners will need to be authorisd to store only very specific data. Simultaneously, users will need to be sensitised to voluntarily ...”