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Remote DBA Experts Explain the Impact of Big Data on Database Management

by Sujain Thomas on September 28, 2016

Remote DBA Experts Explain the Impact of Big Data on Database Management by Sujain Thomas Data management has always been part of organizational management. However, with the advent of new data collection and retrieval technologies over the last two decades, the amount of data being generated is in greater volumes and much more diverse. Systems such as RDBMS which had dominated the landscape for decades are now falling by the wayside to give way to NewSQL and NoSQL among others. Data generation today is in virtually every aspect of life from banking, healthcare and education to social life. As an organization with an online presence, data management is no longer a competency but a differentiator that determines winners and losers […] Continue Reading

Interview with Carme Artigas from Synergic Partners

by BDW Editor on September 15, 2016

This blog post is part of the Big Data Week Speaker interviews series. Enjoy reading! Why is it important for businesses to be more data driven nowadays? In the past, business decisions were made based on speculations and intuitions that lead to misleading results. Today, thanks to Data Science and Advanced Analytics we rely more on accurate data that makes the business decisions approach from being reactive to becoming predictive. This predictive approach leads to gaining new insights from your business and customers and it gives the possibility of adapting your product or service to what the customer requires making you stand out from your competitors. What are the main challenges a company encounters when trying to leverage their data? […] Continue Reading

Interview with Jonny Voon, Lead Technologist Innovate UK – IoT, Cyber Security and Blockchain

by BDW Editor on September 15, 2016

This blog post is part of the Big Data Week Speaker interviews series. Jonny shares his thoughts about the impact of big data. Why is it important for both private and public sector organisations to be more data driven nowadays? Data allows us to understand and rationalize decisions that might be seen as irrational. For example a city deciding to put a pedestrian crossing on a road that causes long traffic delays could use data to help understand the usage of the crossing and vehicle emissions before and after, and optimize its operation. What are the main challenges an organisation encounters when trying to leverage their data? The biggest challenges lie in how data can be seen as an asset on a […] Continue Reading

Share your experience in Leeds @ Big Data Week!

by BDW Editor on September 7, 2016

Leeds, the capital of the North, is joining London, Chicago, Barcelona, Madrid, Kuala Lumpur, Ho Chi Minh, Jakarta and Rio de Janeiro as a host city for Big Data Week 2016 – the Global Festival of Data. Since they do things differently up north, they’re giving it a personal touch, hosting events across the city, working with academics, businesses, associations, and others to offer new ways to explore data and the power it has to bring about transformation. They do not rely on fame, nor formalize when it comes to holding a presentation. Big Data Week Leeds focuses on the improvements to our lives that smart data analysis and analysts can bring. They want everyone to join in and they […] Continue Reading

Interview with Roland Major, Enterprise Architect, TfL

by BDW Editor on August 31, 2016

This blog post is part of the Big Data Week Speaker interviews series. Roland shares his thoughts about the impact of big data in the public transport field, also offering a sneak peek into his talk at the “Big Data in Use” Conference. Why is it important for businesses in your industry to be more data driven nowadays? The intensity of movement in London is expanding over time and TfL has to identify anomalies and react to them at ever increasing velocity, reducing reaction times in order to minimise the impact of disruption across transport modes. This ensures an optimization of services, increasing security and trustworthiness of our organisation, these being cornerstones of success in any business, as a matter of fact. What […] Continue Reading

Five Steps To Handling Big Data

by BDW Editor on August 1, 2016

Community posts are submitted by members of the Big Data Community and span a range of themes. No longer ring-fenced by the IT department, big data has well and truly become part of marketing’s remit. A deluge of data flowing from the ever-increasing number of offline and online media, coupled with rapid changes in consumer behaviour – the way people shop, work and relax – is making marketers’ job more difficult. But despite the complexity of big data, it offers huge opportunities for brands to drive value from their customer information. The sheer volume and number of different sources producing big data means marketing departments need a cast-iron plan for making the most of it. Traditional offline sources are being […] Continue Reading

The Value In Unstrucutred Data

by BDW Editor on August 1, 2016

This is a guest post written by Scott Raspa. He works at IKANOW, a big data software company, where he is involved in the company’s sales and marketing efforts supporting public and private sector clients. He can be found on Twitter @sraspa. Big Data is the biggest trend in IT right now, however the term is loosely thrown around and becoming increasingly ambiguous. Everyone seems to be doing some sort of “Big Data” nowadays, which can cause great confusion among organizations with actual Big Data needs. We at IKANOW focus on unstructured data analytics, and may be a little bias, but believe it is an essential part of any Big Data offering. One question we hear all the time is “what’s the […] Continue Reading

Why Hadoop Is Important In Handling Big Data?

by BDW Editor on August 1, 2016

This is a guest post written by Jagadish Thaker in 2013. Hadoop is changing the perception of handling Big Data especially the unstructured data. Let’s know how Apache Hadoop software library, which is a framework, plays a vital role in handling Big Data. Apache Hadoop enables surplus data to be streamlined for any distributed processing system across clusters of computers using simple programming models. It truly is made to scale up from single servers to a large number of machines, each and every offering local computation, and storage space. Instead of depending on hardware to provide high-availability, the library itself is built to detect and handle breakdowns at the application layer, so providing an extremely available service along with a cluster […] Continue Reading

How the IoT Will Reshape Big Data Analytics

by BDW Editor on July 26, 2016

It won’t be long before the amount of data produced by machines surpasses the amount of data produced by all humankind combined. That’s a lot of data! Most of this will be streaming in from the IoT, or Internet of Things, which has either gone mainstream or is on the very verge of doing so. Yet only about 8 percent of enterprises have monetized their IoT data streams, and even there, they are only monetizing about 25 percent of what is available. That is expected to change, and soon. Within a couple of years, half of all enterprises will have monetized their IoT data. Here’s how that will change data analytics as it’s always been known. The IoT Will Change […] Continue Reading

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