Whitepapers
"Big Data " initiatives create significant opportunities for business and IT leaders, but both must come to terms with challenges they introduce. A focus on the impact of analytical outcomes in supporting material and measurable business decisions.
Quantum's Janet LaFleur walks through the Quantum Lattus product for Wide Area Storage and Object Storage environments.
Multi-datacenter replication is a critical part of modern infrastructure, providing essential business benefits for enterprise applications, platforms, and services. Riak Enterprise offers multi-datacenter replication features so that data stored in Riak can be replicated to multiple sites. With Riak Enterprise, data can be replicated across locations and geographic areas, providing disaster recovery, data locality, compliance with regulatory requirements, the ability to “burst” peak loads into public cloud infrastructure, and more.
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.
Data warehousing is a success, judging by its 25 year history of use across all industries. Business intelligence met the needs it was designed for: to give non-technical people within the organization access to important, shared data. The resulting improvements in all aspects of business operations are hard to dispute when compared to the prior era of static batch reporting.
Executive Content
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.
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."
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.
How 'Big Data' Is Different. These days, lots of people in business are talking about
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).
