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Top Reasons Big Data in the Cloud Is Raining on On-Premise

Information Week

The marketplace is finally flush with analytics-specific services that deliver on the cloud's promise of reduced cost and complexity, and greater agility.

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Migrating to cloud: solving the big data problem

CTOvision

Read Alberto Pan’s article about how to solve the big data problem by migrating to cloud on Information Age : For many organizations, cloud computing is now a fact of life. Over the years, it’s established a reputation as the key to achieving maximum agility, flexibility, and scalability.

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2014 Big Data Posts - Self Service BI, Agile Data Management Practices, and Killing Data Landfills

Social, Agile and Transformation

Specifically, I hope these posts educated readers that tools of "Data Science 1.0" such as Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and especially Access can disrupt - even kill - efforts to make organizations become more data driven. agile planning big data cio it management organizational change'

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Agile Data Scientist, A Disciplined Hiker or Reckless Hunter?

Social, Agile and Transformation

In my last post, I provided some guidance on why and how agile data practices can lead to better Business and IT collaboration. Agile aligns priorities, focuses multidisciplinary teams to hit goals, and enables teams to self organize and figure out individual responsibilities.

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12 Considerations When Evaluating Data Lake Engine Vendors for Analytics and BI

Businesses today compete on their ability to turn big data into essential business insights. To do so, modern enterprises leverage cloud data lakes as the platform used to store data for analytical purposes, combined with various compute engines for processing that data.

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What not to do with Unstructured Big Data - and Why NoSQL

Social, Agile and Transformation

Better late then never, and hopefully this will help some of you that are starting out looking at solutions to better store, search, and data mine text documents. . . So here are some things not to do (or avoid doing) with unstructured text Big Data: Develop home grown scripts to.

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Five Key Agile Practices to Support Architects

Social, Agile and Transformation

Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Five Key Agile Practices to Support Architects.

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