According to the Financial Times, companies are on record pace to return over one trillion dollars to shareholders this year via share buybacks and dividends. With creaking…
The language of probability to statisticians and most scientists is clear—they understand terms such as “correlation”, “statistically significant”, “confidence” and more. However, using probabilistic terminology to communicate…
It is often thought that Apache® Hadoop based data lakes are a potential panacea to thorny data management issues long germane to relational databases. After all, the…
Built in the 1950s, California’s aqueduct is an engineering marvel that transports water from Northern California mountain ranges into thirsty coastal communities. But faced with a potentially…
After all the hype about big data and its mental cousin Hadoop, some CIOs are getting skittish about investing additional money in a big data program without…
Trying to internally “sell” the merits of a big data program to your executive team? Of course, you will need your handy Solution Architect by your side,…
Both Ben Bernanke and Edward John Smith got it wrong. They made terrible forecasts that either wrecked the economy, or in the instance of John Edward Smith…
Wall Street analysts keep waiting for companies to spend money upgrading their infrastructures, but they shouldn’t hold their collective breath. Instead of investments in IT, machinery, buildings…
Turbulent markets offer companies both challenges and opportunities. But with rigid and aging IT infrastructures, it’s hard for companies to turn on a dime and respond to…
Look around at global economic conditions. More than skirmishes—near flat out war—in Ukraine, Gaza, Iraq and Syria. China pushing up GDP numbers by loading local provinces with…
