With the continuing uncertainty caused by the oil price collapse, many oil companies will have to revise their corporate strategy, focusing on core assets and cost discipline. This is where having an effective data and technology strategy comes in, says Emmanuel Udeh, subsurface data analyst, Beneprojecti Nigeria Ltd. One key learning from the Big Data Analytics for Oil & … [Read more...] about 4 Factors to Unlock the Big Data Promise for the Oil & Gas Industry
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How Big Data Can Help Predict Power Outages
Big data is becoming more useful every day as we learn to collect an abundance of information and analyze it more efficiently. There are things we can learn from data collection that we would never have expected years ago. One of the most recent uses for big data is to help predict power outages in the event of a disaster. Its not about whether or not power outages will happen. … [Read more...] about How Big Data Can Help Predict Power Outages
RE.WORK Connect Summit, San Francisco 2015
** Use the discount code DATAFLOQ'for 20% off! ** It's estimated the number of things connected to the Internet will reach 50 billion by 2020. At the RE.WORK Connect Summit in San Francisco, November 2015, we will explore the opportunities of emerging trends in IoT as well as how we can use the huge amounts of data generated by an increasingly connected digital … [Read more...] about RE.WORK Connect Summit, San Francisco 2015
7 Best Practices How Big Data Can Help the Air Force
In 1952, when the NSA was founded, they quickly employed thousands of cryptologists to deal with the massive amounts of data that was flowing into the organisation. Since then, governments from around the world have been analysing large streams of data. Therefore, it does not come as a surprise, that the armed forces have also been using data, and more lately big data, to … [Read more...] about 7 Best Practices How Big Data Can Help the Air Force
4 Ground Breaking Use Cases of Big Data and High Performance Computing
With the amount of data that organizations have to deal, with expected to grow into the exabytes in the coming year(s), we will need better technology. Bring in High-Performance Computing, or HPC in short, and a completely new world opens for you. HPC is dramatically changing the playing field. In the past years, it has grown from an innovative feature used only by the most … [Read more...] about 4 Ground Breaking Use Cases of Big Data and High Performance Computing