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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

SMAC: Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

Convergence of new technologies.  IDC calls it the ‘Third Platform’.  Gartner refers to the “Nexus of Forces“.  Forrester talks about the Mobile Mind Shift.  Yet another term or buzzword, and one that is used frequently by CapGemini,   is SMAC

Big Data and Analytics: Advanced Analytics Still Mostly Done with Small Data Sets

By Dick Weisinger

40 percent of large businesses are using advanced analytics today, but only half that number say that the type of analytics jobs that they run are driven by Big Data.    One third of businesses say that Big Data has

Data Analytics/BigPanda: Enabling Even More Effective Data Center Scale-Ups by Applying Data Science

By Dick Weisinger

Data centers have changed dramatically over the last decade.  In many cases, while the number of servers and overall complexity of the data center have grown dramatically, the size of the IT staff that’s managing the center hasn’t changed at

Data Analytics: Businesses Outsource to Fill Talent Gap

By Dick Weisinger

Business Analytics services will be $51.6 billion in 2014 and will reach $89.6 billion by 2018, according to a recent report by IDC. Other findings from the IDC report are that: The top ten vendors in the Business Analytics sector