Blog - Big Data Week Blog

We’re fast approaching a time when it becomes possible to connect everything and everyone to the internet. A web of connected documents and sites, of devices, of machines, of networks. A place where everything is connected to everything. We’re fast approaching a time when it becomes possible to connect everyone to everyone. Affordable, ubiquitous, on-when-you-want compute power, communications capability and storage will soon be in everyone’s hands. Literally. And not just in their hands. On...

Asia: a huge, diverse, and rapidly changing society. One could even say it has high volume, variety, and velocity. Here in Malaysia we value a good technology festival, and we’ve been discussing Big Data for at least a year (the veracity of this claim is backed up by the list of previous Big Data Malaysia meetups, which is by no means the only local group discussing these issues). Now that I’ve paid nominal (and perhaps...

Is it a leap forward helping the world to run smoothly on exabytes of unstructured, unprecedented levels of data? Or is Big Data a new buzz-word used by sales and marketing teams to persuade companies to buy multi-million pound IT platforms? If you ask me, history is repeating itself. I remember the birth of CRM and how the industry was split between IT companies and their solve-it-all multi-million pound databases, and the pointy heads claiming...

Ever had a data problem? Ever thought it was an insurmountable big wave? On 29th April…..just after Big Data Week, but still under the banner, panelists from iVEC, SGI, NextGen, and Landgate discussed, debated, reflected and advised on the challenges, opportunities and encounters of big data. No data set was excluded – no data set was too large, too small, too complex or too simple. The lively discussion tackled the “data deluge” and specifically asked...

Big data represents a significant paradigm shift in enterprise technology and stands to transform much of what the modern enterprise is today. Digital data is everywhere and global data is growing at 40% per year. Companies across the world are capturing vast amounts of information about their customers, suppliers and operations. Some companies claim to have big data collection and analysis in their DNA and have built a separate strategy around this. Others say they...

Hundreds of terabytes. That’s the amount of Big Data being generated by multi-national corporations, every day. While terrifying for some, others see it as an opportunity to fundamentally transform how their organisations operate and make decisions. According to Gartner, Big Data is forecast to drive $34 billion of IT spending in 2013. But what most people think of when they hear the term ‘Big Data’ almost certainly isn’t what I’m talking about. What many organisations...

Big Data is ramping up to be a big business opportunity with companies on average doubling the amount of data they create every two years, and estimated to spend $120bn globally on data analytics software between now and 2015, according to IDC. Hype surrounding Big Data is at an all-time high as companies look to address the increasing volume, variety and velocity in electronic information. Traditional relational databases are becoming less useful and relevant as...

Some people seem conflicted about big data at the moment. On the one hand, excitement about the benefits of big data is at an all-time high. In the Analytics 2013 survey of 600 analytic professionals showed that 35% of companies were expanding their analytic investments because of big data. Big data represents a world of opportunities to take advantage of our ability to measure just about anything and a wealth of new data sources including...

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