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Reading Time: 3 minutes As governments worldwide aim to become smarter like Dubai, Barcelona or Singapore, their ultimate goal is to become percipient, astute, shrewd, and quick. That means that smart city governments need to use emerging technologies like Big Data and Internet of…
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Oil & Gas industry has been drowning in Big Data for ages. From sensors monitoring wells to the huge amount of seismic data, the industry has access to approximately 20 petabytes of data. To put this into perspective, that’s…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Big Data is not always Big Information Organizations don’t need big data, they need big information. Let me explain. Years ago, my professors taught me the critical difference between data and information. Data are raw unorganized facts that need to…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Big Data Warehouses require Hybrid Data Storage There’s no stopping the big data revolution. The potential business advantages are clear. Big data systems make advanced forms of analytics possible that allows organizations to optimize business processes, increase customer delight and…
Reading Time: 3 minutes You’ve undoubtedly heard the (tired) definition of big data involving the three “Vs” for volume, variety, and velocity. Now there’s a growing movement to associate a fourth V-word with big data sets: virtualization. But what is data virtualization? For years,…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Real-world big data use cases have moved beyond “possibilities” to multiple use patterns including analytics and low-cost archival storage of large datasets. In all cases, big data is thought of in an ENTERPRISE sense, even if big data analytics that is performed…
Reading Time: 2 minutes While Big Data Analytics has become all the rage over the past few years, another technology also has entered the mainstream: Data Virtualization. Data Virtualization is the process of abstracting different data sources through a single data access layer which…
Reading Time: 5 minutes Disclaimer: The author felt compelled to share some ideas that emerged at a Buddhist Vegan restaurant in Palo Alto, CA after a conversation on big data and data virtualization with analysts from a top CIO membership organization. The author claims…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Join our conversation on All Things Data with Robin Tandon, Director of Product Marketing at Denodo (EMEA & LATAM), with a focus on how data virtualization helps customers realize true economic benefits in as little as six weeks. Listen to…
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Magic Quadrant (MQ) is a well-known and influential series of research reports published annually by the IT research and consulting firm Gartner, Inc. These reports provide overviews and actionable insights regarding market direction, shifts, and players in various major IT markets…
