Posted by Brian Wood on May 20, 2013 in Blog
Coins have two sides, both heads and tails — and as Bret Michaels from Poison reminds us, “Every rose has it’s thorn.”
Such is the case with both social media and big data, which like any new technologies, discoveries, and applications may be used for good and less good.
Summary and commentary by Tim McElligott in FierceBigData; original article by Prof. Nancy Rothbard in Knowledge@Wharton.
Posted by Brian Wood on May 7, 2013 in Blog
The analogy used in the article below really drives home the visualization of simply how much data we’re talking about when we talk about big data.
Wal-Mart — granted, the largest retailer on the planet — generates the equivalent of 60 million 5-drawer file cabinets’ worth of data EVERY HOUR.
Posted by Brian Wood on April 23, 2013 in Blog
Tim McElligott of FierceBigData summarizes a recent report from McKinsey analyzing how the healthcare industry can reduce spending and improve patient outcomes by extracting information via big data.
A few notable points:
Fiscal concerns are driving the demand for big-data applications
Health care expenses now represent 17.
Posted by Brian Wood on April 9, 2013 in Blog
Big Data + Bioinformatics = growth, hype, opportunity, risks, chatter, noise, funding, start-ups, confusion.
The short summary / commentary by Tim McElligott in FierceBigData below captures the current market state pretty well.
Posted by Brian Wood on March 21, 2013 in Blog
Old guys rule — or at least that’s what the bumper stickers say along the beaches of Encinitas.
In the face of “little data”, experience counts. Old guys, step up to the mike.
But when blessed with “big data” (i.e., lots of it), analytics shine. Sorry, geezers, take a nap.
Posted by Brian Wood on March 11, 2013 in Blog
Less is more — or so it would seem for firms weighing in on the topic of “big data security”.
And if “less” is 40 terabytes PER DAY of security data, I shudder to wonder how much “more” would be.
The article is from Ellen Messmer of NetworkWorld.
Emphasis in red added by me.
Posted by Brian Wood on March 4, 2013 in Blog
I’m pleased to present a new info-graphic from AIS.
Posted by Brian Wood on March 1, 2013 in Blog
Better, faster, cheaper — and now simplified, automated, visualized, interactive and self-servicing.
Such is the mantra of successful big data solutions — or so says research published by Pentaho and summarized below by Caron Carlson of FierceCIO.
It makes me wonder, however: Was there ever any doubt?
Emphasis in red added by me.
Posted by Brian Wood on February 28, 2013 in Blog
Wow, lots of juicy (and relevant) buzzwords in this post: big data, cloud, and even genome analysis and DNA sequencing.
It’s almost as if the original article were written specific for the AIS audience — but it wasn’t.
Caron Carlson of FierceCIO summarized the original piece by Bob Violino in Baseline.
Emphasis in red added by me.
Posted by Brian Wood on February 20, 2013 in Blog
Matt Mullen of 451 Research produced the article / analysis below discussing the much-hyped topic of whether marketing teams are starting to drive more organizational IT spending than traditional IT teams themselves.
Speaking as a marketing guy: “Oh, were that the case!” Evidently my current and recent employers never got that memo.
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