The lines between open source and commercial products are blurring rapidly as our options for building and executing analytics grow by the day. The range of options and price points available today enable anyone from a large enterprise to a single researcher to gain access to affordable, powerful analytic tools and infrastructure. As a result, analytics will continue to become … [Read more...] about Breaking Analytics Out Of The Box – Literally
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Six Practical Data Center Management Tips
Nowadays, big data platforms are everywhere, and an overwhelming majority of people store digital content in the cloud. The hyperactive lifestyle of todays professionals forced to access their work on multiple platforms as they travel, attributes to this. Of course, big data is about much more than cloud-based systems. Businesses, government agencies, schools, and even the … [Read more...] about Six Practical Data Center Management Tips
How to Unlock the True Value of Big Data with Smart Analytics
Data is an organizations most valuable resource. Data never sleeps. Every second massive amount of data is created from every website, phone, sensor, and whatnot. Whether data are useful or not, more often than not, we store them for future references. If we look at numbers, we generate more than 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day. This situation poses many big data … [Read more...] about How to Unlock the True Value of Big Data with Smart Analytics
Without Things, There Is No Analytics Of Things (AoT)
I was recently having a discussion with Richard Hackathorn, an industry strategist & analyst and Dan Graham, a colleague who is deep into my companys strategy for the Internet of Things (IoT). We were specifically talking about how to enable the Analytics of Things (AoT) and what barriers and opportunities exist today. During the discussion, it hit me that one of the … [Read more...] about Without Things, There Is No Analytics Of Things (AoT)
How Technology Creates The Next-Generation Data Centers
Many organizations are beginning to think that they might be done with data centers entirely, at least those that are on-premise. With so much emphasis now placed on the future of cloud computing and the services delivered via the cloud, a common thought is that the traditional data center has outlived its usefulness. This thinking may be off the mark, but it is correct in at … [Read more...] about How Technology Creates The Next-Generation Data Centers
