Big Data Summit Testimonials

 

Here's what our past attendees had to say:

"The summit far exceeded my expectations. The attendees all seemed to be ready and willing to discuss their company's capabilities very openly."

CTO

"Coming to this conference, I was a little dubious. However this has turned out to be the highlight of the year (in events)."

Executive Director

The summit was excellent. The program went according to plan. A very good summit.

Enterprise Development Manager

"I've already had follow up discussions with a couple of the vendors I met and I see promise for future business. The meetings were the perfect length of time and I learned a lot about some vendors I thought I knew. I was impressed by the event, it was very well organized and executed."

SVP & CIO

"I have made some phenomenal contacts. I think the content of the presentations as well as the networking opportunities are fantastic."

VP

 

Whitepapers

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.

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.

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.

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.

Riak: From Relational to Riak This technical brief is designed to provide a background and detailed level of understanding for those analyzing a move from a relational database to a NoSQL model (specifically emphasizing the Riak key/value store offered by Basho).

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.

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

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."

 
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