Many leaders at tech companies spent decades relying mostly on guesswork, assumptions and experience when making decisions. Now that big data solutions are so readily available, it’s easier to get confirmation of trends and feel more confident about how to …
Big data tools can empower businesses and allow them to operate with improved flexibility and agility. Of course, achieving your goals with the solutions available does involve adopting suitably impactful strategies, rather than simply expecting that big data adoption is …
Have you ever heard the adage, “you first eat with your eyes?” Beautiful food is more appetizing, which is why fancy restaurants spend so much time making their meals more visually appealing. Data is no different. Displaying it visually can …
For most businesses today, data management has shifted from an important competency to a critical differentiator and determines industry winners and has-beens. Government bodies and Fortune 1000 companies benefit from the innovations of web developers. These organizations are reevaluating existing …
Ask any security manager how they currently analyze cyber security data. Chances are they’ll describe a mad dash of manual efforts that involve pulling volumes of disparate data together for either ad-hoc requests coming from upper management, or quarterly reports …
The Great Reporting Burden: Why Security Managers Struggle with Analyzing Silos of Data Read More »
As the holidays approach, tech vendors and the tech media love to analyze the year in review and speculate about what next year will look like. I recently had a chance to talk with a few experts and gather their …
Experts predict what 2016 will bring for DevOps and IT Read More »
A recurring claim at security conferences is that “security is a big data / machine learning (ML) / artificial intelligence (AI) problem”. This is unfortunately wildly optimistic, and wrong in general. While certain security problems can be addressed by ML/AI …
Machine learning is cybersecurity’s latest pipe dream Read More »
I used to work for IBM and it is always a bit of a kick when I’m at an IBM event. IBM was not only the greatest company I ever worked for, it was the most frustrating. It was a …
IBM, Apple, and Watson: You are about to become obsolete Read More »
Hadoop is an open source framework for storing and processing Big Data on large clusters of commodity hardware for massive data storage and faster processing. This would seem to make it a natural hub for all of an enterprise’s data. …
In this era of digitization we collect and store more data than ever before. Most of the data we collect is used to improve the way we do business. However, even though we deal with an enormous amount of valuable …
A closer look at Dark Data and how it can impact your business Read More »
