IDG Contributor Network: When data drives sports
As rugby teams from the southern hemisphere tour Europe for a series of test matches -- the last before next year's World Cup in England -- we get delighted by high quality games. And, at the same...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: A data-stuffed turkey on your Thanksgiving table
Data is present everywhere in our lives. Even a time-honored tradition like your Thanksgiving meal isn't immune from data. It's actually all the opposite.Many of the ingredients that make up the...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: 43 percent of marketing organizations sell data
According to a survey of more than 300 marketing leaders in large organizations, released last month by analyst firm Gartner, the sale of data (such as aggregated customer data) is the third most...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Manage data responsibly, even if it's big
Modern data management technologies open up so many new possibilities that it becomes sometimes too easy -- and incredibly tempting -- to cross the guardrail that usually circumvents IT projects. The...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Breaking free from real-time data
Real-time is a fallacy. I mean, real real-time is a fallacy. No mater how fast it executes, no matter how optimized it is, no matter how low in the stack it resides, code always takes time to run....
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: IT leaders: pitchers or catchers?
As the saying goes, "Every company is an IT company, every person is a technology person." This adage is becoming more relevant than ever in today's digitalized world, with organizations of all sizes...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Make sure your data is housebroken
This data you are trying to bring in looks pretty nice, but where did you pick it up? Are you certain it's safe to import into our systems? Until you tell me about the origin of the data, and can...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Are your applications API-ly working together?
When I was in engineering school, Computer Science classes covered many fascinating topics, ranging from the theory of programming languages to development methodology to actual coding projects. I was...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: The Twelve Days of Christmas (a Data Carol)
On the First day of Christmas, big data gave to me One Hadoop ecosystemDo I really need to explain Hadoop? I didn’t think so. For the ecosystem part, let’s sing on... ***On the Second day of...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: In 2015, big data will drive the Internet of things
With the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas capturing a lion's share of this week's coverage in both IT and consumer media, it seems obvious that 2015 will be The Year of the Connected Object....
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: In 2015, big data will slowly permeate the borders...
Big data has proven its usefulness. This last year has seen more big data projects go live than ever, more proofs of concept turning productive, more value being derived from new insights on new data...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Shifting privacy and ethics in data-land
Proper data governance practices postulate that every data point collected, every record stored, should have an identifiable origin and a stated purpose. Back in the days of the mainframe and of...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Technology adoption crystalizes privacy concerns
“Personal technology is making the world better and more vital.” This statement can be found on the summary slide of a presentation delivered this week in Davos by Microsoft’s chief strategy officer....
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Data is the new black
Information management architectures have been evolving constantly in the past decades. In the early days of computers, data was at the core of mainframe systems, and programs were essentially...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: It’s not just your daddy’s data
In a previous post, "Data is the new black," we discussed how data-centricity is fashionable again. This renewed focus on data, triggered in part by architectural style changes, is also caused by a...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: What happens to open source vendors when they get...
Earlier this week, open source business intelligence vendor Pentaho announced that they were getting acquired by Hitachi Data Systems. At a valuation to be rumored to be in the vicinity of half a...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: A closer look at the fight for Hadoop
Ever since Yahoo released its then-internal Hadoop project to the Apache Software Foundation in 2007, several commercial vendors have been fighting for mindshare on the market, trying to be viewed as...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: 5 steps for transforming your business using data
Organizations that were born digital are built around their IT platform, and all their business processes are IT-driven and data-powered. Every action, every decision, is based on the processing of...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: The drive toward real-time business intelligence
In 5 steps for transforming your business using data, we have identified real-time business intelligence as one of the first steps toward the digitalization of business. But what does real-time (or...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Turbocharge business processes with analytics
In 5 steps for transforming your business using data, we have identified real-time business intelligence as one of the first steps toward the digitalization of business. But once insight is obtained...
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