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Reading Time: 4 minutesData science disciplines have evolved rapidly in recent years. Fueled by the rise of big data and the internet of things, advanced analysis of large data sets are driving science, business and marketing decisions. At the same time, the exponential…
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn 2013, Gartner issued the CIO Agenda Report. In this report, CIOs ranked Analytics and Business Intelligence as their number 1 technology priority. Separately, just a few months ago, Forbes magazine confirmed that 89% of business leaders believe big data…
Reading Time: 2 minutesHadoop makes it possible for any organization to analyze huge amounts of data, at low cost and on commodity hardware. This is a major improvement from the past, when data analysis involved expensive servers – and therefore big budgets. Now,…
Reading Time: 2 minutesShort answer: Technology vision, unflinching execution, and team’s backing. That’s what BJ Fesq at CIT Group did, and he won the prestigious Computerworld technology leader award this year! I have known BJ Fesq for more than a year. He has…
Reading Time: 3 minutesHow does data virtualization guarantee quality of service in your business apps? This is something I am frequently asked, so I’ve decided to provide some insights. Data virtualization provides an abstraction layer over disparate heterogeneous data sources and offers a…
Reading Time: 4 minutesI’ve had several conversations with BI practitioners recently around the need to provision data agilely in order to support Self-Service Business Intelligence initiatives. Many have been confused as to the roles that some of the great data blending tools out…
Reading Time: 4 minutesData Virtualization and Graph Databases A couple of years ago now, Forrester forecasted that by 2017 over 25 percent of enterprises would be using graph databases (Enterprise DBMS, Q1 2014. Forrester Research. 2-13-14) . It’s obviously not easy to measure…
Reading Time: 2 minutesI was recently plugged into a Hortonworks webinar, and was astounded to hear their opening statement that by 2020 there will be more than 40 zettabytes of data in the world. To put this in perspective 40 zettabytes is 40…
Reading Time: 3 minutesI was on a recent visit to a major railroad and logistics company who is our customer. While at lunch with the chief IT architect discussing our ongoing project, he said with a twinkle in his eye:” I hope to…
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf I asked someone about the first location that will come to their mind when I mention the word “technology,” anyone who has been around for the past ten years would say “Silicon Valley.” In fact, the valley is such…
