Analytics

5 Business Analytics Tech Trends and How to Exploit Them

Big Data. Faster infrastructure. Falling costs. Mobility. Social media. CIOs at John Hancock, Shopzilla and other organizations say these IT trends are transforming how their companies process data to gain valuable business intelligence.

How to Be Ready for Big Data

Big Data is coming, but for most organizations it's three-to-five years away. That doesn't mean you shouldn't prepare now. Analyzing Big Data will require reference information like that provided by a semantic data model. And once you

SXSW Highlights Prosumer Trend

Can Your Apps Handle an 1,800 Percent Spike in Traffic?

Business customers and users are demanding ever-better performance from websites and applications. However, the majority of CIOs are uncertain they can meet those expectations. Next-generation application performance management (APM) tools can provid

5 Ways to Prepare for Big Data With Scale-Out NAS

Excited by the prospect of turning your company's unstructured data into actionable business intelligence? Your first step is to create a storage architecture that can deal with petabytes of data. EMC Isilon's Nick Kirsch says scale-out NA

How Big Data Can Reduce Big Risk

Using predictive analytics to forecast IT failures is itself fraught with difficulty. But combined with artful human intervention, the tools can work.

Application Streaming Gets a New Face With Cloudpaging

Application streaming--delivering software on-demand from centralized servers or the cloud--holds great promise, but has proved elusive in practical application. Legacy applications can prove difficult to virtualize and performance has been problemat

Big Data Causes Concern and Big Confusion

A new study suggests many organizations are concerned about managing big data, but most don't have a clear understanding of what big data means. Log management solutions can help organizations make sense of some of the data they're generati

Inadequate SSL Certificate Data Threatens IT Security

SSL certificates are a fundamental component of secure online transactions, but a new survey finds that a majority of organizations don't know where or how many certificates they actually have, and nearly as many lack an accurate idea of which c

How IBM Sold Business Analytics by Relying Solely on Partners

Dissatisfied with its midmarket efforts in the $90 billion business analytics hardware, software and services global market, IBM shifted all of its sales efforts for that segment to the channel. Big Blue teamed that commitment with a $14 billion inve