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5 Reasons to Move to Big Data (and 1 Reason Why It Won’t Be Easy)

Companies of all sizes are beginning to reap the benefits of data analytics technology. If you're not up to speed yet, here are five ways that big data can benefit your business--and one precaution that may well thwart your big data plans.

May 21, 2013 6 mins

Big Data Data Warehousing IT Jobs

To Tap Big Data, Federal IT Must Partner With Tech Industry

Experts within and outside government IT stress the role the private sector must play in helping cash-strapped federal agencies find order in their growing stockpiles of data.

May 15, 2013 5 mins

Big Data Government Government IT

ESB Persists As Application Integration Tool

The tried-and-true enterprise service bus--long the foundation of now-dated service oriented architecture deployments--is back in style thanks to the increasing need to integrate disparate applications. The secret to ESB's future success, some s

May 15, 2013 7 mins

Big Data Enterprise Architecture Web Development

How Big Data Can Improve Marketing and Customer Service

Big data is poised to help marketers reach and engage customers and prospects in ways that businesses are only now starting to understand. Enterprises that don't embrace analytics may soon see embattled customers voting with their wallets.

May 13, 2013 7 mins

Big Data Business Intelligence Retail Industry

What Open Source Hadoop Coming to Windows Means to IT

Hadoop is nearly synonymous with the analysis of big data. The Hortonworks Data Platform on Windows is significant as it means that companies lacking Linux expertise will finally be able to benefit from the big data analysis platform, which has been

May 13, 2013 6 mins

Big Data Linux Small and Medium Business

Big Data Gold Isn’t Always Where You Would Expect It

Many companies are focusing their big data initiatives in areas like sales, marketing, customer service and R&D, but other functions like logistics or finance may offer even greater ROI.

May 7, 2013 8 mins

Big Data IT Skills IT Strategy

Splunk Adds Statistical Analysis to Enterprise Security App

Splunk is seeking to make it easier than ever to use statistical analysis on your machine-generated data to automate the identification of anomalies and outliers in your systems.

Apr 30, 2013 3 mins

Data Breach Malware Viruses

Universities Closing Big Data Talent Gap But Need Real Data

Higher education is stepping up its efforts to teach big data analytics and business intelligence, but professors say they need businesses that depend on data to work with them to provide students with real data and real business problems to solve.

Apr 30, 2013 5 mins

Big Data Business Intelligence Mentoring

How Genomic Research Could Improve Healthcare

The cost of mapping an individual genome is quickly dropping. The potential benefits for improving the care individual patients as well as entire populations are immense. So, too, are the obstacles to getting all stakeholders--healthcare providers, r

Apr 29, 2013 6 mins

Big Data Data Warehousing Healthcare Industry

Crowdsourcing Offers a New and Wider Path to Innovation

GE, Allstate try crowdsourcing contests where external brainiacs compete to produce the best answers to big-data analytics questions.

Apr 25, 2013 3 mins

Big Data Business Intelligence Innovation

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