Explaining Spark to Your CEO
There comes a time in the life of every important technology where the CEO gets interested and wants to know what the fuss is all about. That time has come for Spark.
I Sure Hope More than Hadoop Crosses the Chasm
Hadoop vendors are thrilled with the uptake of Hadoop by mainstream IT buyers, it won’t be good news for the businesses buying the technology unless more than just Hadoop crosses the chasm.
Why Only Fully Equipped Citizen Data Scientists Will Succeed
Wouldn’t it be great if everyone could find important insights from data, just like Hilary Mason and DJ Patil?
Oracle Says Forget about Benchmarks—Here’s Why You Shouldn’t
Despite the overwhelming importance of data to business, too little attention is paid to benchmarks that demonstrate which databases and architectures are fastest.
Box/Roambi Partnership Take 2: From Spreadsheet Chaos to Data Governance
CITO Research managing editor Deb Cameron pointed out a data governance problem described in this Forbes.com article, Box Partners With Roambi To Attack The BI Market.
Getting Ready for Machine Learning
Machine learning is about foresight. It is a practical business and prediction tool.
Cheezburger Avoids BI ‘Fails’ By Sipping Data Slowly
Getting value from big data is everyone’s problem, even LOLCats.
How Vertica Was the Star of the Obama Campaign, and Other Revelations
One of the most critical contributors to the Obama campaign’s success was the direct access it had to a massive database of voter data stored in Vertica.
Mission: How to Find and Use External Data
A first draft of a program for finding and making use of external data to improve business results.
What Is a Data Scientist? A video interview with Dan Woods
Data scientists are needed to help turn big data into a richer model of the customer.
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Everybody knows about IRS audits. Much less well understood are Oracle audits where the software behemoth comes into a company and – much as the IRS wields the proverbial fine-toothed comb to hunt for irregularities – Oracle uses its version of a fine-toothed comb to sift through a company’s software library and its licenses. Every piece of software is inspected, and so are the appropriate Oracle licenses and contracts.
I’m told by people who would know that Jeff Bezos thinks of Amazon as a software company, not a retailer or an e-commerce company.
How is your organization going to harness the power of mobile devices? In many ways, the answer to this question is a proxy for your approach to technology in general.
Creation of VMs from a golden image can be automated, but the requirements are not easy to discover.