Big Data Summit

A forum for innovative IT thought leaders

C-level executives in every industry are faced with large amounts of data, which can be viewed as both a burden and an opportunity. Executives tasked with overseeing company data must strike a balance between everyday data management tasks and effectively leveraging data through analytics and analysis.

The Big Data Summit is a unique opportunity for C-level executives involved in data storage, data management and data analysis to gather and discuss how companies can effectively manage, protect and leverage the growing amounts of data in the enterprise. With a focus on best practices, the event will allow attendees to explore strategies and technologies surrounding real-time data processing, data protection and privacy, meeting industry regulations and compliance, and data storage.

Attendees will learn about key aspects of big data and its capabilities through a unique blend of focused CIO Think Tanks, Executive Visions panel discussions, Analyst Q&As, visionary Keynote Presentations and networking breaks, technology executives will share insight and gain critical takeaways.

Here are a few of this year's discussion topics:

  • The Economics of Data
  • Driving Big Data Business Value by Accelerating Time-to-Answer (TTA)
  • Big Data in Social Media
  • Let the Data Decide: Predictive Analytics in Healthcare

We at CDM Media know that in order for you to take time out of the office, it must be time well spent. The Big Data Summit agenda offers a balanced schedule that will maximize your time and efforts, providing you with ideas and strategies truly capable of changing business practices.

Take advantage of this unique opportunity to get big data issues out on the table, make your voice heard and collaborate with peers on real solutions for your organization.

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Whitepapers

Too Big to Ignore When does big data provide big value? By now, we have all heard the claims. Data is the new oil. Big data is different. Big data is a management revolution. Big data is the next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity. Big data makes the scientific method obsolete.

Big Data Analytics: Quick Start Program Click streams, social media, log files—a growing mountain of valuable data looms above you. You’ve taken countless steps to capture and utilize your company’s structured data, but despite your efforts, it seems you have made no progress in the arduous trek to the summit. You know that there is a wealth of lucrative business information waiting for you at the top, but how can you possibly reach it when the mountain of data is growing before your very eyes?

Dealing with Big Data: Planning for and Surviving the Petabyte Age The concept of “big data” is gaining attention across industries and the globe, thanks to the growth in social media (Twitter, Facebook, blogs, etc.) and the explosion of rich content from other information sources (activity logs from the Web, proximity and wireless sources, etc.). The desire to create actionable insights from the ever- increasing volumes of unstructured and structured data sets is forcing enterprises to rethink their approaches to big data, particularly as traditional approaches have proved difficult- if even possible- to apply to structured data sets.

Demonstrating the Business Value of StorNext As the data created and consumed by users worldwide continues to double every two to four years, the role of scale-out file systems and policy-based data management solutions such as Quantum's StorNext is becoming critical to managing this growth and streamlining data workflows.

Solving Big Data Problems - On the Board Learn how to solve big data problems with the Kitenga Analytics Suite, Dell Software's solution for turning information from web-scale data resources into actionable business intelligence.

Executive Content

The Challenges and Rewards of Big Data In this one-on-one interview, Rich Brueckner, President of insideHPC, discusses big data challenges and opportunities, as well as what technologies will help companies deal with their growing amounts of data. InsideHPC is a CIO Summit, CIO Cloud Summit, and CIO Life Sciences Summit event partner.

The Power of Zoom Transforming government through location intelligence The power of zoom represents an evolution in the way government sees and interacts with the world. When location data is coupled with existing government data and expertise, every point on the map can provide historical and predictive perspective to inform complex policy decisions. The map itself has been transformed from a static picture to a living platform for shared decision making and real-time collaboration, focusing the energy of the crowd and empowering government and citizens to work together to respond quickly to challenges at any scale.

Big Data and Analytics_IBM As new expertise and innovations in software and integrated systems make the analysis of Big Data more accessible, these leaders are gaining a greater competitive advantage in the era of "smart."

Analytic Databases for Big Data According to TDWI Research’s 2011 Big Data Analytics Survey, 33% of surveyed organizations are contemplating a replacement of their analytic databases, data warehouses, and similar platforms to keep pace with new and intensifying requirements for advanced analytics in a “big data” world. As user organizations make such platform replacements—or add additional platforms to their expanding data warehouse architectures—they are turning more and more to specialized analytic database management systems (DBMSs).

How 'Big Data' is Different How 'Big Data' Is Different. These days, lots of people in business are talking about

 
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