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Is Cloud Computing Hurtling Towards Disaster?

April 12, 2012 by Paul Barsch
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As public cloud environments inevitably experience technological advances, increased multi-tenancy, colossal system sizes, tight coupling of processes and components, and myriad IT personnel decisions (and errors) these systems will grow more risky to the point where system accidents will become commonplace. [read more]

Big Data Hype is an Opportunity for Data Management Pros

March 23, 2012 by Steve Sarsfield
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The opportunity is for data management pros to think about their big data management strategy holistically and solve some of their old and tired issues around data management. It’s pretty easy to draw a picture for management that Big Data needs to take a Total Data Management approach. [read more]

5 Ways Cloud 'Supercharges' Enterprise Initiatives

January 29, 2012 by Joe McKendrick
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Captain Query and Commander Spid are trapped in a multi-dimensional PowerPoint presentation on the planet of the Evil Cloud Salesmen...Evil Cloud Salesman: Our product offers a multi-tier, highly extendable, hot pluggable service layer, embodying a loosely coupled cloud enabled, customer facing user experience.Query: Do you understand... [read more]

The CIO Diaries - Bridging the Gap to LBOs

November 4, 2011 by Smart Analytics
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"The CIO has been a fixture in the corporate office for nearly three decades, yet the gulf between this discipline and the Lines of Business seems to be getting wider. In fact, the more IT spends, the less seems to be the understanding with other departments. " [read more]

Help Change the World with Data Science

June 24, 2011 by David Smith
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New York based data scientist Jake recognizes that statisticians could be doing better things with data than trying to predict the ideal ad for someone to click on. In an article in the Guardian, he describes the mission of his new organization, Data Without Borders, to bring the skills of data scientists to nonprofits and charities who... [read more]

Big Data: What can an energy company teach us about data science?

June 22, 2011 by Ted Sapountzis
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Is data science a new discipline to help us with big data ? I don't agree, as field has existed since WWII, and the industry is innovating so that we are all data scientists [read more]

Data Quality – Everyone is a Stakeholder

April 29, 2011 by Venkata Bodapati
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It is each one of us and collectively the civilized society as a whole that should develop means to demand that organizations and governments take full responsibility for the impacts poor data and information quality management have on the society by making them accountable for each and every fallacy in their information management, assurance and oversight processes. [read more]

Do You Know Your Data?

November 22, 2010 by MIKE20 Governance Association
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Midway through Michael Lewis’ excellent book The Big Short, the author makes an astonishing assertion: many financial institutions didn’t understand the complex derivatives and products that they were selling. And here’s the really scary part: He was absolutely right. Lewis shows that once-storied banks such as Merrill Lynch, Morgan... [read more]

The Path to Innovation in Data Management

November 16, 2010 by Steve Sarsfield
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I read a recent analyst report on the data quality market and “enterprise-class” data quality solutions. Per usual, the open source solutions were mentioned at a passing while the data quality solutions of the past were given high marks. Some of the solutions picked in the top originated from days when mainframe was king. Some of the top... [read more]

How Good Management Can Produce Bad Data

November 15, 2010 by Rama Ramakrishnan
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As a long-time analytics practitioner, I am well aware of the dangers of using data without fully understanding where it comes from and how it is generated. There are numerous ways in which the data one gets isn’t quite what it seems: the same data item may be named differently in different systems, different items may have the same name... [read more]

Let your gray hair light your way through unfamiliar data

November 8, 2010 by Ted Cuzzillo
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How do you approach unfamiliar data? An investment banker I talked to last week — one I know from a client’s whitepaper — rejects the “don’t think” method, advocated in my earlier post about Dan Murray. Instead, he thinks first, on paper. “My approach is driven by having a bunch of gray hair,” says Michael Princi, managing director of... [read more]

How well are you protecting your enterprise content?

September 17, 2010 by No-IP Blog
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More and more often, you hear stories about information loss: identities stolen, emails lost or destroyed illegally, credit card information compromised, etc.  Depending on the degree of sensitivity, these situations can create a major headache (and in some instances, lawsuits) for individuals... [read more]

Big Data moves up the stack

August 21, 2010 by Tony Bain
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Data Management is an area that I work in and follow with a passion.  “Big Data” is really the bleeding edge of this, focusing on the cloud and the requirements for the high end of scale, performance and data volume.  The Big Data field itself is rapidly evolving, maturing and broadening in focus.  It is still going... [read more]

The Worlds of Information Management

August 16, 2010 by MIKE20 Governance Association
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These days, I’m pretty immersed in the world of small companies for one reason: I have been interviewing the owners of small businesses for my new book. Quite frankly, I have been blown away by many things, not the least is which the ability of these companies to effectively manage their data. In this post, I’ll explore the small and... [read more]

Information-Driven Business: How to Manage Data and Information for Maximum Advantage

August 9, 2010 by MIKE20 Governance Association
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After submitting my final draft to Wiley at the end of last year, my wait is finally over!  I have just received one of the first copies of my new book, Information-Driven Business: How to Manage Data and Information for Maximum Advantage.  Mostly I try to write here on topics that affect our profession, but I hope you’ll... [read more]

You Have to Segment Your List

July 26, 2010 by Sundeep Kapur
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Digital marketing is an effective way to control costs costs and measure ROI. One of the easiest ways to start making your campaigns stand out is to segment your list. The more effective your segmentation, the more you can focus. With better focus, you can drive better results.Segmentation is truly an art; if you’re not careful you could... [read more]