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Big Data: Early Adopters Often Frustrated by Complexity, Volume and Variety

By Dick Weisinger

Increasingly businesses and organization are collecting Big-Data levels of data, but they are often stymied when they try to actually analyze that data. For example, the following results published by a survey taken by Paradigm4 found that: 91 percent of data

Big Data Analytics: A Blueprint for Applying Analytics in the Utility Industry

By Dick Weisinger

How can Big Data and analytics be successfully used by businesses today?  What are the drivers behind the technology?  The key success factors?  How can you get started with a Big Data Analytics (BDA) initiative? Those are the questions that

Internet of Things: Pushing Enterprises into Big Data and the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

As we move into an era of the Internet of Things (IoT), devices will get continually smarter and will collect ever more diagnostic and environmental data.  The data generated by IoT devices will be further incentive for businesses to invest

Data Cloud/Big Data: Google Introduces DataFlow as Successor to MapReduce

By Dick Weisinger

Do you feel left behind when it comes to technologies like Hadoop and MapReduce?  The great thing about the rapid speed that technology is changing and obsolescing is that if you miss one trend it’s not long before it’s been superseded

Big Data and Data Lakes: A New Generation of the Data Warehouse

By Dick Weisinger

“If you think of a datamart as a store of bottled water – cleansed and packaged and structured for easy consumption – the data lake is a large body of water in a more natural state. The contents of the