Big Data Summit Partners

CDM Media partners with analyst organizations, associations and media companies (in print and online) to build beneficial relationships. Partners reach new audiences, share valuable resources and build awareness for the Big Data Summit.

If you are interested in partnering with CDM Media for the Big Data Summit, please contact Rachel Tait, Director, Client Services & Event Management CDM Media, at rachel.tait@cdmmedia.com or +1 312.374.0820

Analyst Partners

International Institute for Analytics

IIA is the only research firm dedicated exclusively to defining the path to analytics excellence. Our faculty provides critical resources and an inspired view of how enterprises are using analytical intelligence in everyday decisions. Our approach utilizes a world-class research library and faculty team, a professional association and the inspiration of a face-to-face network.

IIA sets the highest professional standards with a rigorous commitment to actionable, repeatable and transferable practices. We are the market leader in benchmarking analytical capabilities and we specialize in supporting executive leadership by industry and function.

IIA utilizes a paid research model that insures our objectivity in meeting the needs of practitioner organizations. We generate both peer-based and faculty-sourced insights through a variety of phone briefings, online and live activities. The results? Actionable insights delivered through a proven methodology that respects the unique spirit of collaboration among participants, faculty and the IIA team.

NewVantage Partners

Founded in 2001, NewVantage Partners is a leading management consultancy focused on helping Fortune 1000 business and technology executives create strategic solutions that harness the power of big data and enable data-driven decision making. NewVantage Partners is comprised of many of the early business and technology pioneers of information and analytics. NewVantage’ team of experienced Fortune 1000 executives, industry thought-leaders, and domain experts in data, analytics, and business transformation, serve as trusted advisors to Fortune 1000 clients to ensure successful adoption of their data-driven strategies. The company is based in Boston with operations in New York and San Francisco.

Media Partners

Database Trends and Applications

For the last twenty-five years, Database Trends and Applications (DBTA) magazine has covered the technologies and processes involved in every aspect of the creation, management, application and storage of structured and unstructured data to create business value and competitive advantage for enterprises of all sizes in all industries. To achieve this end, DBTA's content is original, factual and uniquely valuable - providing clarity, perspective and objectivity in an increasingly complex and exciting world where data assets hold the key to organizational competitiveness.

Datanami

Datanami is a news portal dedicated to providing insight, analysis and up-to-the-minute information about emerging trends and solutions in big data. The portal sheds light on all cutting edge technologies including networking, storage and applications, and their effect upon business, industry, government, and research. The publication examines the avalanche of unprecedented amounts of data and the impact the high-end data explosion is having across the IT, enterprise, and commercial markets. Subscribe now at: www.datanami.com/xs/register .

TeleSemana.com

TeleSemana.com , the leading multimedia web portal covering Latin America's telecommunications industry, offers a wide range of options to deliver the most strategic information to 15.000 telecom professionals across the region. With over eight years of experience, TeleSemana.com provides up-to-date information and online training through different channels: podcasts, videos, weekly newsletter, online seminars and white papers, among others.

TeleSemana.com 's content is targeted towards telecommunication service providers seeking to expand their knowledge about the launch and commercialization of new technologies and services.

Cloud Times

CloudTimes is a leading technology media property, dedicated to providing in-depth research and breaking news on Cloud Computing and related topics. Apart from its well-known news section, CloudTimes hosts the largest research database on the web, featuring free whitepapers, webinars and articles from leading IT companies. Visit us on www.cloudtimes.org.

TelcoProfessionals

TelcoProfessionals is an interactive, content rich, blog- and video-centric online community and business exchange developed exclusively for the Telecom and Media industry. We are dedicated to individuals working in the industry globally, as a place they can find and help each other get ahead. TelcoProfessionals.com includes area specific Microsites with their own daily newsfeeds and content, a full Telecom & Media events listing, blogs, informal video’s of the people shaping the industry’s future, and forums. The site allows you to network directly with like-minded professionals from over 191 countries. We have more than 14000 members.

To enhance your professional profile and network for future business opportunities, or to visit our jobs portal, join us today on www.telcoprofessionals.com.

Data Center Journal

The Data Center Journal is the only magazine portal for the data center industry that provides information and resources for the three groups that help make a data center successful; Information Technology, Facilities and Design. The Data Center Journal addresses the issues that affect the daily operation, design and business of a data center. Our unbiased editorials cover the entire data center. Our newest sites include www.datacenter.tv and our Expert Blogs site www.datacenterjournal.com/blogs. We offer vendor directories, classifieds, white papers and a full industry calendar. My Data Center Space is a networking tool for data center professionals found exclusively at www.datacenterjournal.com.

The Web Host Industry Review

Since 2000, The Web Host Industry Review has made a name for itself as the foremost authority of the Web hosting industry providing reliable, insightful and comprehensive news, interviews and resources to the hosting community. TheWHIR Blogs provides a community of expert industry perspectives. The Web Host Industry Review Magazine also offers a business-minded, issue-driven perspective of interest to executives and decision-makers. WHIR TV offers on demand web hosting video interviews and web hosting video features of the key persons and events of the web hosting industry. WHIR Events brings together like-minded hosting industry professionals and decision-makers in local communities. TheWHIR is an iNET Interactive property. For more details about TheWHIR, visit http://www.theWHIR.com For more information on iNET Interactive, visit http://www.iNETinteractive.com .

 

Whitepapers

Giving BI a Human Touch To ensure widespread adoption of business intelligence (BI) practices, Organizations have been increasingly deploying state-of-the-art tools and techniques. However, most of these initiatives have met with little success. Why? One reason: The majority of BI systems have been designed on the basis of how technology approaches a problem. However, BI technology rarely meets its objective of aiding human cognition of a particular business scenario. Even the improvements in technology have not helped to increase BI adoption, because lost in the pursuit of technological excellence is a lack of focus on user behavior.

The Value of Big Data : Using big data to examine and discover the value in data for accurate analytics 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.

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.

Understanding the New Cooperative Analytic Processing Architectures The desire for new big data analytics capabilities is driving a wave of expert recommendations for cooperative analytic processing architectures, where processing is shared between several integrated systems. Experts have also identified a new breed of system, the analytic platform, which coordinates analytic processing across these next-gen architectures. In this paper, learn more about experts’ new architectural recommendations, read criteria for analytic platforms – and find out why ParAccel’s analytic platform is the leading example of this next wave of analytic systems.

Introducing Wide Area Storage and Quantum's Lattus Product Quantum's Janet LaFleur walks through the Quantum Lattus product for Wide Area Storage and Object Storage environments.

Executive Content

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.

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.

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."

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

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).

 
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