Category Archives: Analysis

12 February 2013: Enterprise Irregulars

We Have Big Data But Do We Also Have the Big Picture? Excerpt: Paul Krugman writes in the New York Times today  about a quixotic attempt by some in congress to cut funding for social research, which, to my mind, … Continue reading

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17 January 2013: Dark Reading

Big Data Will Play a Key Role in Security’s Future, Study Says Excerpt: In a report issued Wednesday (PDF), the security company offered a look at how data analytics will be applied to IT security, and how enterprises can ride the … Continue reading

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14 January 2013: CMS Wire

Forrester Wave: Big Data Predictive Analytics Market Let by IBM, SAS; New Entrants Compete Excerpt: That out of the way, the vendors that made it into the Wave this time around are:  Angoss Software, IBM, KXEN, Oracle, Revolution Analytics, Salford … Continue reading

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14 January 2013: Fast Company

How Big Data Keeps Cable TV Watchers Hooked Excerpt: For Time Warner Cable, one of America’s largest cable and broadband firms, Big Data helps determine the course of both their marketing efforts and their network infrastructure. In terms of Time Warner … Continue reading

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4 January 2013: InformationWeek

Why You’ll Need a Big Data Ethics Expert Excerpt: Big data is a big deal for companies in 2013. The prospect of outdistancing your competition by leveraging your company’s data with huge data sources such as NASA, the government, video … Continue reading

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3 January 2013: CIO Journal

Forrester: As Cliff Fears Recede, Mobility and Analytics to Lead Tech Spend Forrester Research Inc. predicts that global tech spending by businesses will increase by 5.4% in 2013, driven by previously delayed investments in mobility, data analytics and collaboration tools. CIOs who … Continue reading

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26 December 2012: Business 2 Community

Five Essential Questions to Answer So You Can Put Big Data to Work Excerpt: Based on these use cases, new business models are emerging, and as Ray Wang,  Principal Analyst and CEO at Constellation Research sees it, three main  approaches … Continue reading

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11 December 2012: ChannelNomics

Microsoft Partners Shifting to Big Data Excerpt: MPN general manager Julie Bennani tells Channelnomics that Microsoft partners are gravitating toward the Big Data trend by developing skillsets and solutions in business analytics needs. Like other channel networks, Microsoft’s reseller and integrator community is lagging … Continue reading

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10 December 2012: The Register

Are You Ready for the 40-Zettabyte Year? Excerpt: As we all know EMC is hot on storing data, big data analytics and data security. Remembering which side of its bread is buttered, and, indeed, who is buttering its bread, IDC pointed … Continue reading

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6 December 2012: PC Advisor

Big Data, Cheap Storage Bring In-Memory Analytics Into Spotlight Excerpt: If you haven’t already, you’ll start to see offerings, including SAP HANA and Oracle Exalytics, which aim to bring big data and analytics  together on the same box. Or you can … Continue reading

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