Big Data
Big Data is happening now. Learn about the tips and technology you need to store, analyze, and apply the growing amount of your company's data.
Articles about Big Data
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IT's new role as big data stewards
Forward-thinking IT departments should take these four big data stewardship steps now.
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Database planning for big data modeling
When using sandboxes for your test databases, it's vital that a DBA provides guidelines for big data experimentation in that environment.
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Big data asset management: Engage traditional thinking to solve new problems
The IT asset management traditional playbook delivers value for big data. Here's what IT decision makers should consider about big data asset management.
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Use big data analytics to identify and retain your best customers
A big data strategy should include using analytics to identify your best customers and then offering them a free service to engender loyalty.
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Consider how to acculturate analytics workers to retain them
CIOs must get the proper role integration and teamwork in place for analytics workers in the data center before they start their employment.
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Big data spreadsheet products and their potential benefits
Excel isn't the most robust tool for big data work. Fortunately, there are spreadsheet solutions that fit the bill, and that may relieve some users' anxieties about big data.
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Putting big data to use in the supply chain
Learn how the retail industry's smart use of big data and analytics is having positive business effects for its customers and its supply chains.
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The NSA and Big Data
While your company may not be subjected to the global scrutiny befalling the NSA and U.S. intelligence gathering apparatus, the "Big Snooping" capabilities engendered by Big Data must be used in a cle...
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Demand for Big Data pros on the rise
A new Dice report says that companies are getting into Big Data in a big way. Job postings for these jobs run the gamut from retailers to insurance companies and are all across the nation.
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The four phases of Big Data: A retrospective
Now that last fall's IBM and Oxford University survey about Big Data is in wide circulation, we revisit it to get some impressions from industry experts.
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Getting on top of the Big Data life cycle
If we don't start thinking about how we are going to manage this incoming mass of Big Data in our data centers--where images, videos and documents are growing at a clip of 80 percent--we may never be ...
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Use Big Data for marketing accountability
Astute marketing executives can leverage the power of big data analytics to fortify their value in the organization. Take some time today to see how your executives feel about your marketing accountab...
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Big Data analytics requires breakdown of operational silos
From the data and computing sides, we already know it is absolutely essential to break down IT infrastructure silos between platforms, networks and staff-but have we gotten this silo-breaking concept ...
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Preparing today for the Big Data challenges of tomorrow
Big Data challenges of tomorrow are many. Will Kelly brings us some insight from Big Data leaders on how to meet those challenges.
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Has the CIO lost Big Data?
Big Data technology has increasingly become embedded in business units, and budgets, and initiative ownership is shifting away from the CIO and toward line of business ownership. What can you do about...
