Big Data Analytics

Archive: 10-2012

• Take our big data/data analytics survey

  What’s your organization’s big data strategy? Tell us and you could win $500.

  Posted by Bill Detwiler | October 30, 2012, 12:25 PM PDT

• Tiered storage makes Big Data run in production environments

  Movie download services are an important “use study” for enterprises to consider as they move into the Big Data era. Here’s one example.

  Posted by Mary Shacklett | October 29, 2012, 4:07 AM PDT

• Big Data and social media: A match made in heaven?

  In the private sector, there’s excitement around a relatively simple premise: that Big Data can divine actionable answers from the chaos of social media. Is this true?

  Posted by Patrick Gray | October 23, 2012, 3:00 PM PDT

• Big Data: Moving from strategy to tactics

  Big Data, which comes into the enterprise unstructured and unorganized, first needs to be “prepped” so that it can be processed by a business analytics program. Here’s what you...

  Posted by Mary Shacklett | October 22, 2012, 5:22 AM PDT

• Using Big Data to establish market dominance

  Successful companies let business questions drive big data discoveries; unsuccessful companies ask Big Data to uncover business insights. Don’t fall into the same traps as your predecessors.

  Posted by John Weathington | October 17, 2012, 5:15 AM PDT

• Big Data, big problems?

  Mary Shacklett offers some tips for how to make the transition from tracking traditional transaction data to the unstructured and rich data formats that come in from the web.

  Posted by Mary Shacklett | October 15, 2012, 5:15 AM PDT

• Big Data events and webinars

  Here are three events coming up that will help you learn what you’ll need to know to effectively tackle Big Data in your organization.

  Posted by Toni Bowers | October 11, 2012, 11:22 AM PDT

• Big Data’s neglected topic: How to secure it

  One of the last areas of concern to most new technologies is security. But it’s relatively easy to price security and do an internal risk assessment to determine what level of security is...

  Posted by Patrick Gray | October 4, 2012, 6:05 AM PDT

• Big Data: Is that your final offer?

  When deciding your customer offering, you should consider products, services, and relationships; in each case, Big Data can play a big role.

  Posted by John Weathington | October 2, 2012, 5:28 AM PDT