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Big Data: Businesses Still Uncertain how to Use the Technology

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses say they just don’t know how to apply and what to expect from Big Data technology.  A survey from SnapLogic and TechValidate that focused on how businesses are using Big Data and Hadoop technologies found that 52 percent said that

Big Data: Moving Beyond the Setbacks of Early Implementation Failures

By Dick Weisinger

Big data projects are on the rise, but unfortunately many big data projects to date haven’t been successful.  A survey by CapGemini‘s found that only 13 percent of organizations have been able to build big data into a project that’s gone

Big Data: Choosing ‘Medium’ Instead of ‘Big’ When ‘Right-Sizing’ Your Data

By Dick Weisinger

Big Data is the rage, but the reality now is that most businesses really don’t have data sets that large to be classified as ‘Big Data’. Gartner analysts Merv Adrian and Nick Huedecker note that Hadoop and Big Data projects have been “slow to grow

IDC’s 3rd Platform: Predictions on the Direction of the Cloud, Big Data and Mobile in 2015

By Dick Weisinger

IDC recently released their predictions for the direction of IT in 2015.  These include: Within the ICT segment, one third of the spending will be on what IDC calls ‘3rd platform‘.  IDC refers to technologies like Cloud Computing, Big Data,

Big Data: Help Wanted: Data Janitor Positions

By Dick Weisinger

Garbage In.  Garbage out.  As much as big data leads the hype headlines for technology, data quality remains an achilles heel of the technology. Eva Ho, a partner with the early-stage venture capital firm Susa Ventures , said that “the little