In May 2011, the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company released a research report titled Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity. This was a seminal report, ...

To take advantage of Big Data, agencies must ensure their technology stacks — including storage, servers, networking capacity and analysis software — are up to the task. Federal agencies, like ...

Greg Schulz, author of several books on storage, is founder of the StorageIO Group, an IT industry analyst consultancy whose blog can be found at storageioblog.com ...

Data has become the new currency of business. Without it, informed decision-making is nearly impossible. In the age of digital transformation, companies are drowning in data—from operations and ...

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Big data engineers develop, maintain, test, and evaluate big data solutions within organizations. Duties include resolving ambiguities in data, performance optimization, and data extraction. Big data ...

Big data, defined as an all-encompassing term for any collection of data sets so large or complex that it becomes difficult to process using traditional data processing applications, continues to be a ...

There are three buzzwords that, if we had our way, would be stricken completely from the world: “cloud,” “the Internet of Things,” and “big data.” Each of them was coined in an attempt to elegantly ...

Digital transformation, while not new, has changed tremendously with the advent of new technologies for big data analytics and machine learning. The key to most company's digital transformation ...

Note: I've had the eminent thought leader Esteban Kolsky, founder and managing principal of ThinkJar, doing guest posts before on this blog. Time and again, the guy simply nails what the core of ...

"Big data isn't just a buzzword or a passing fad; it is a fundamental, increasingly 'table stakes' capability for companies in all sectors," said Matt Zisow, director of product at online retailer ...