The Billboard Problem: Why Intelligent Ads Only Live Online, for Now
For centuries, billboard ads have been an ambiguous but undoubtedly treasured way to convert eyeballs into customers. In the land of…
Digi-lution: How Online Data Can Indicate Civil Unrest
Saying that the Internet is a medium for change, knowledge, discourse, or even civil unrest is a vast understatement, because…
Forget Big Data, We Need Smart Data [VIDEO]
Welcome to season two of BI.TV – your vendor agnostic fortnightly recap of global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics news, views…
A Complete Guide to Overcoming Executives’ Concerns about Hadoop
CEOs are often critical of adopting new technology, and for good reason. New technology is expensive and all too often…
Low Latency a High Priority When Choosing a Data Center Location
Conventional wisdom about network technology dictates that data centers have to be located close to whatever application or user base they’re serving…
How Not to Screw Up Your Data Center Move
It’s usually an inevitable fact: a company will do a once-in-a-career move: they will move their data to a data center.…
Is Big Data Under Threat by New Internet Magna Carta?
This year we have seen the 25th birthday of the World Wide Web (WWW) and next year we will see…
How Data Will Make Air Travel Safer
Airlines and air traffic controllers use a lot of information to keep passengers safe, integrating weather readings, physical information about…
It’s Time to Ditch Scarcity Thinking
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit,” Smaug the magnificent dragon sits on his nearly unlimited hoard of treasure and coins and…
Architecting Big Data Solutions
In this article I would like to outline, at a high level, the overall thought process for "architecting" big data…
