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Big Data: Data Cleansing and Data Training Remain Big Challenges

By Dick Weisinger

The universe of 4.4 zetabytes of data in size, according to a 2014 IDC estimate.  But who’s managing that data and how?  Forrester says now that the 4.4 zettabytes of data are currently being managed and will grow to 44 zettabytes.

IT Spending: CIOs Focus on Big Data for Offense and Security for Defense

By Dick Weisinger

CIOs today are focused on two things: Big Data and analytics.  Investments are strong in both of these areas.  Security for defense, to defend against risks to the business, and big data and analytics for offense, to grow the business

Algorithmic Economy: Forget Big Data. Algorithms Trump Data Any Day

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses in all industries are increasingly turning to high tech for innovation and as the fuel for achieving high growth.  Algorithms have become the secret recipe for today’s business successes.  Algorithms today are sophisticated and enable businesses to understand their

Big Data: Don’t Bother Rolling Out Big Data Tools Unless Your Application Really Warrants It

By Dick Weisinger

When to use Hadoop?  It really depends on your application.  And, as we will see, in some cases it doesn’t take big data sets for it to make sense to use Big Data. Many, and probably most, applications don’t really

Big Data: Apache Arrow for Faster and More Efficient Management of Columnar Data

By Dick Weisinger

The Apache Software Foundation recently released Arrow as a new top-level project.  Arrow is embeddable software that enables columnar in-memory processing.  Structured data is usually managed with SQL operating on rows of a database.  Column operations are often tricky to