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Jim HarrisNovember 9, 2015 0

The Integration of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) has become the new It Girl of the IT world. Of course her big brother big data continues to generate big buzz. My sis from another miss Tamara Dull has blogged about the relationship between big data and IoT, positing big data is a subset of IoT on

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Dylan JonesNovember 4, 2015 0

Adapting to the Silo 3.0 challenge

Working on a data migration project gives you a unique opportunity to learn where your organization has fallen short in its data management strategy. It's when you start to explore your legacy data landscape that you get a feel for how big a silo challenge your company has. It wasn't

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David LoshinNovember 2, 2015 2

Using big data techniques to increase database performance

Many people perceive big data management technologies as a “cure-all” for their analytics needs. But I would be surprised if any organization that has invested in developing a conventional data warehouse – even on a small scale – would completely rip that data warehouse out and immediately replace it with an NoSQL

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Phil SimonOctober 28, 2015 0

Managing big data, Part 2: Human questions and considerations

.@philsimon on the soft skills that Big Data requires.

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Daniel TeacheyOctober 26, 2015 1

Know a data steward who's scary good? Nominate them for a Stewie.

There's a sense of foreboding and uncertainty. You look around, but you're uncertain where to go next. What to do. Or who to turn to. Ultimately, it feels like an eerie calm before the storm. And you get that creepy feeling that something awful is just around the corner. I might be

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Fiona McNeillOctober 23, 2015 0

Fields and dreams of data warehousing

“Field of dreams warehouse”– a historic phrase I used in the early days of data warehouse development. It describes the frenzy of activity that took place to create enterprise data infrastructure, before the business rationale for the data use was even understood. Those were the early days. In some ways

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Joyce Norris-MontanariOctober 22, 2015 0

Is your data self-service?

I don’t know about you, but I'm asked every day where some type of data lives in our enterprise. I keep thinking that we have not done a good job of helping people learn to help themselves! A few things I have learned about corporate data assets are: The data

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businesswoman considering data lakes and hadoop

Jim HarrisOctober 21, 2015 0

Big data quality – Part 3

Jim Harris explains why it's especially important to assess the quality of metadata when it comes to big data.

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Phil SimonOctober 19, 2015 0

Managing big data, Part 1: Technical questions

With Big Data, there are far more technical questions than answers.

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Dylan JonesOctober 16, 2015 1

Has Big Data had its day?

No one knows for sure who coined the term Big Data. Despite etymological studies, we are still no closer to attributing provenance to any one person, or indeed any one period. Some say the term was coined in the '80s, others believe the '90s – and many are convinced the term originated

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