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Big Data: The Bar for ‘Big’ is Continually Rising

By Dick Weisinger

Today’s world of Big Data is one that involves the processing of huge amounts of data.  Today, systems that are petabyte-plus in size qualify as ‘Big Data’.  But the bar that defines big is rising at an accelerating rate. It

Enterprise Information Management: One-Third of Top Organizations To be Hit with Information Crises

By Dick Weisinger

As organizations become overwhelmed in the management of their data, Gartner is predicting that within the next three years that one-third of Fortune 100 organizations will be hit with an “information crisis.”  These crises will be precipitated by inability of

Hadoop and Big Data: Businesses Frustrated by Lack of Reliable, User-Friendly and Secure Solutions

By Dick Weisinger

While Big Data technologies made big headlines in the tech press in 2013, by the end of the year, the adoption of Big Data technologies across many businesses was only relatively modest. A survey by the SandHill group of a

Big Data Continues to Dominate the IT Conversation in 2014

By Dick Weisinger

A report by IDG Enterprise finds that 2014 will be another year where Big Data and analytics dominate much of the IT news reporting. IDG Enterprise defines Big Data as “large volumes of a wide variety of data collected from

Big Data: Can Next Generation Software Replace the need for Data Scientists?

By Dick Weisinger

Virginia Backaitis, Big Data recruiter, earlier this month wrote a piece for CMSWire called ‘the End of Data Scientists’ where she collects comments from executives of companies building analytics tools.  These businesses say that the next generation of software analytics tools to