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Big Data: Businesses Clamor For Big Data Tools to Improve their Customer Experience

By Dick Weisinger

Big companies are adopting Big Data, or at least checking it out to see whether or not there’s something that they can gain from it.  A study by NewVantage Partners surveyed some of the largest American companies and found that

Data Tools: Defining the Characteristics of Quality Data

By Dick Weisinger

When can data be considered ‘high quality’?  Joseph Juran, an early promoter data-quality, defined “data to be of high quality if it fits the intended uses in operations, decision making and planning.”  Data needs to consistently and accurately represent real

NoSQL: Polyglot Persistence — Matching the Data Storage Tool to the Data

By Dick Weisinger

“NoSQL Distilled, A brief guide to the world of Polyglot Persistence” is a great new book by Pramod J. Sadalage and Martin Fowler, published by Pearson’s Addison-Wesley Professional.  Both Sadalage and Fowler now work at ThoughtWorks, a consultancy that specializes in

Storage: IT Fights Back to Slow Explosive Storage Demands

By Dick Weisinger

Technologies like business analytics and Big Data are increasing the amounts of data that business need to store. For example, Syed Masroor, Head of technology and solutions at NetApp India, recently told ComputerWorld that Netapp has always “firmly believed that the entire

Data: Big Data Lights Up Brain Cells While Open Data Fills Pockets

By Dick Weisinger

Stories about both Big Data and Open Data fill the headlines of tech news.  One gets the perception that Big Data is more about business and Open Data applies more to governments sharing the data they hold, but Gartner says