One World, Many Data Centers: The World Cup and Social Media
Whether you like Soccer (Football outside the U.S.) are “Soccer Neutral” or have a problem with the billions of dollars spent by…
Creating a More Efficient Data Center
As the world increasingly relies on technology, the need for data storage has exploded. In fact, 90 percent of the…
Introducing the Knowledge Worker [VIDEO]
The BIg Idea Video SeriesIntroducing the Knowledge Worker There’s been a fundamental shift in the workforce over the last…
Fund Portfolios, Not Projects, to Enable Innovative Analytics
Large companies tend to play it safe, and that’s often an understatement. When it comes to getting funds approved for…
Big Data Analytics Require Best Practices in Using Technology
Organizations should consider multiple aspects of deploying big data analytics. These include the type of analytics to be deployed, how…
When Privacy is Good Business
Big data can be scary. After all, its suggested implications seek to replace human foresight with predictive analyses given that…
5 Signs Your Company Is Ready for BYOD
With the proliferation of smartphones and tablets, the business world has found itself scrambling for ways to tap into the…
Big Data Is About People [VIDEO]
Big data can be frightening and overwhelming. Plenty of news outlets have already attested to that. But when you pull…
Hadoop in the Big Data Stack
What is Hadoop? It’s another wacky name for an open-source software project, but Hadoop was also a significant advancement in…
Tell Your Kids to be Data Scientists, Not Doctors
Recently I had the pleasure of being interviewed by John Phillips at CNBC about our data scientist salary study. Recently…

