Big Data Systems Are Making A Difference In The Fight Against Cancer


By Ben Lorica As open source, big data tools enter the early stages of maturation, data engineers and data scientists will have many opportunities to use them to “work on stuff that matters.” Along...
    






Revealing Data Science’s Job Potential


Data Science is gaining traction in the industry, as analytics, data collection, sensors, and Big Data become a more regular part of our online existence. O’Reilly Media, Inc. recently released a...
    






Cloud Providers May Not Be Ready For Big Data Onslaught, Users Fear


We know full well why many organizations are avoiding public cloud — they’re nervous about security. However, seasoned cloud adopters that have locked down their security have another concern on...
    






The Data Lake Dream


How will enterprise data architecture evolve over the next five years? In 2013, I spent a lot of time talking about Hadoop’s development towards being a central destination for data. Hadoop may enter...
    






IBM’s Watson Could Help Turn Big Data Buzz Into Business


It has been said that the Internet is like all the world’s books gathered in one place, then thrown indiscriminately on the floor. Add to this pile the even greater amounts of knowledge hidden...
    






Meet the CDO


Meet the Chief Data Officer, the modern corporation’s most important new executive in the age of the cloud. If you are lucky, your company already has a CDO – even if that person doesn’t wear that...