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Big Data Analytics
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Is your Big Data strategy Big Data capable?
The halls of once great companies are lined with strategies that had no chance of materializing, simply because everyone was focused on the return, and nobody was focused on the investment. Is...
Posted by John Weathington | November 5, 2012, 5:07 AM PST
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Gamification data can drive ROI
Gamification isn't just for driving customer engagement. One company shows how its platform can drive ROI by giving enterprises more insight into how their site and products are used.
Posted by Toni Bowers | November 1, 2012, 6:26 AM PDT
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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 | Latest comment by Bill Detwiler - TechRepublic
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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
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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 | Latest comment by jonparksny
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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 need to do.
Posted by Mary Shacklett | October 22, 2012, 5:22 AM PDT | Latest comment by mrabkin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Creating a data project using SQL Server Integration Services
Edmond Woychowski walks though the creation of a data project using SSIS, a data migration tool that is part of SQL Server Standard Edition or above.
Posted by Edmond Woychowsky | September 26, 2012, 9:16 AM PDT
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Don't forget about "small data"
Many IT organizations do an incredibly poor job of managing and presenting "small data," which should give pause before launching a more complex Big Data project.
Posted by Patrick Gray | September 24, 2012, 10:11 AM PDT
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Infographic: Making the case for big data analytics and intelligence
Slashdot offers this infographic that breaks down the business case for big data projects.
Posted by Selena Frye | September 24, 2012, 7:10 AM PDT
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10 things IT architects should consider when choosing data storage technologies
One important part of dealing with data is figuring out how and where to store it. Here are ten things to think about when choosing the right data storage technologies for your enterprise or project.
Posted by Guest Contributor | September 18, 2012, 7:31 AM PDT | Latest comment by Marc Jellinek
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Build your Big Data strategy on what tomorrow will look like
If you're building your Big Data strategy based on what people are talking about today, you need to start over.
Posted by John Weathington | September 17, 2012, 5:33 AM PDT
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BI still dependent on IT
There's never been a better time for IT to step up and show what tech can do to drive the business. They're the only people who can set the systems in motion to capture data and mine it successfully.
Posted by Toni Bowers | September 13, 2012, 7:14 AM PDT
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Who owns Big Data?
Big Data is all about technical innovation: high speed networks, in-memory databases, and innovative software that makes it all possible. However, one of the best ways to squander an investment in...
Posted by Patrick Gray | September 11, 2012, 6:32 AM PDT
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Big Data: The perils of past performance
With Big Data especially, pundits and vendors imply that if we throw bigger and better data at a faster platform, we'll eventually be able to predict the future with near certainty. Here's why...
Posted by Patrick Gray | September 5, 2012, 11:47 AM PDT | Latest comment by DesertJim
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Big Data defined
If you are a leader, how you define big data has important implications on your subsequent strategic decisions.
Posted by John Weathington | September 4, 2012, 6:32 AM PDT
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Unconventional uses of Big Data and predictive analytics
Will Kelly tells us about some unconventional uses of Big Data and predictive analytics that are happening across multiple industries.
Posted by Will Kelly | May 6, 2013, 4:48 AM PDT
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Hadoop: Expect enhanced performance soon
One by one, tech industry sectors and technologies are lining up with solutions that will continue to enrich Hadoop performance in the data center.
Posted by Mary Shacklett | April 29, 2013, 4:49 AM PDT
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Get a woman's touch on your Big Data team
If there's a gender imbalance on your Big Data strategy team, you're doing yourself a great disservice.
Posted by John Weathington | April 24, 2013, 5:19 AM PDT | Latest comment by ms.spock
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Three areas of concern for Big Data in the data center
Big Data is not just a tool for business analysis. it can also be a helpful tool to improve the data center.
Posted by Patrick Gray | April 17, 2013, 5:39 AM PDT
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Building an analytics infrastructure around big data
The right big data infrastructure comes down to asking the right kinds of questions, and developing a suite of analytics reports that carry back business intelligence on both historical and real...
Posted by Mary Shacklett | May 8, 2013, 5:21 AM PDT
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Preparing enterprise applications for Big Data
Before dashing off RFPs for a Big Data initiative or signing purchase orders on fancy new hardware and software, consider the readiness of your Enterprise Applications.
Posted by Patrick Gray | May 10, 2013, 5:29 AM PDT
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Big Data velocity: Now is the time
Technologies are coming onboard now that will help Big Data velocity efforts with built-in business rules, automation, and new ways to store and access data. Now the time for businesses to map out...
Posted by Mary Shacklett | April 22, 2013, 5:44 AM PDT
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10 emerging technologies for Big Data
Thoran Rodrigues interviewed Dr. Satwant Kaur about the 10 emerging technologies that will drive Big Data forward.
Posted by Thoran Rodrigues | December 5, 2012, 6:00 AM PST
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Big Data in your call center: Managing the numbers
The data collected by your call center software is huge and varied. But which metrics matter and how can you make changes based on those metrics?
Posted by Guest Contributor | May 1, 2013, 5:08 AM PDT
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With Big Data, what's better--qualities or quantities?
When selecting the data scientists that will fuel for your Big Data innovation and/or strategy, you must make sure you understand how they feel about research.
Posted by John Weathington | May 15, 2013, 5:33 AM PDT
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Experts answer five critical big data questions
The era of big data is here and as more businesses realize the need to implement big-data-related solutions, more questions arise.
Posted by Teena Hammond | February 20, 2013, 12:34 PM PST | Latest comment by Robert Withers
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Three applications of M2M and Big Data
Will Kelly points out three areas where Machine to Machine (M2M) technologies and Big Data are coming to together to deliver business results.
Posted by Will Kelly | January 16, 2013, 11:18 AM PST
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To get Big Data buy-in, IT should let go of proof of concept
If your company is currently experimenting with Big Data in an attempt to prove some sort of concept--interrupt this right away. If you're going to prove something--it better be value.
Posted by John Weathington | April 11, 2013, 5:01 AM PDT | Latest comment by johnweathington
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How Big Data changes the game for non-profits
Big Data projects for non-profits are providing answers to problems that were previously considered to be almost insurmountable.
Posted by Mary Shacklett | April 2, 2013, 5:06 AM PDT
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Creating a data project using SQL Server Integration Services
Edmond Woychowski walks though the creation of a data project using SSIS, a data migration tool that is part of SQL Server Standard Edition or above.
Posted by Edmond Woychowsky | September 26, 2012, 9:16 AM PDT
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Does data center co-location make sense for Big Data?
Mary Shacklett discusses whether you should consider a co-lo for big data analytics and high performance computing.
Posted by Mary Shacklett | April 9, 2013, 8:53 AM PDT
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Beyond hype: 70 percent will use data analytics by 2013
Survey of over 1,300 TechRepublic and ZDNet members shows a growing expectation that data analytics and big data will have a major impact on businesses' performance in the next two years.
Posted by Bill Detwiler | November 29, 2012, 11:34 AM PST | Latest comment by Deadly Ernest
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How to harness Big Data in motion
Here are some of the technologies that companies need to look at if they want real-time big data analytics.
Posted by Mary Shacklett | May 17, 2013, 5:13 AM PDT
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Finding a mission for Big Data
Today governments at all levels, financial services companies, healthcare providers and utility and telecommunications companies are all starting to get the message about the importance of mission...
Posted by Mary Shacklett | March 18, 2013, 6:37 AM PDT | Latest comment by brian.p.moore
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Directory: Big data vendors in the US
TechRepublic's directory of big data vendors has market, product, and contact information on companies that provide data analytics, data warehousing, or other "big data" products and services.
Posted by Bill Detwiler | November 20, 2012, 10:14 AM PST
