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Yearly Archives: 2015

Big Data: Market on Target to Exceed $50 billion by 2019

By Dick Weisinger

Big Data, particularly Big Data software, is on target to become a $50 billion business by 2019.  IDC reports that Big Data as an industry is growing at a 23 percent growth rate. A forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC)…

SOA: An Architectural Foundation of Re-usability and Scalability

By Dick Weisinger

The Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) market size was $5.7 billion in 2013 and is expected to grow to $15.1 billion in 2019 and reach $16.4 billion in 2020, based on a report by Winter Green Research.  Driving much of the growth is…

Big Data and Nomadic Computing: Speeding up Analytics of Complex Data Sets

By Dick Weisinger

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) are developing ways to speed up analytics processing of massive data sets.  One of the techniques developed by the university team is called nomadic computing.…

Security: If Businesses Could Better Share Threat Intelligence, They Could Reduce Risk of Data Breaches

By Dick Weisinger

The needle is moving in the wrong direction when it comes to the frequency of data breaches which hit companies.  In 2014, Ponemon reports that 43 percent of businesses had suffered at least one significant data breach over the previous…

Data Quality: CIOs Pressured from Data Quality Issues

By Dick Weisinger

While Big Data and associated analytics software has gotten the attention of executives, far less attention has been given to the quality of the data that businesses are collecting and using for analysis.  The bromide “Garbage In, Garbage Out” (GIGO)…