CERN: A Case Study in “Big Science” Data Management
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) became a poster-child for organizing and processing enormous quantities of data during its…
Managing Data Scientists
With the rise of the 'Data Scientist', a lot has been said about the definition, role, qualifications and skills of…
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Is Data Less Secure in a Cloud Environment? [VIDEO]
Online Tech’s Senior Product Architect Steve Aiello continues his data security series of videos on data encryption by dispelling the…
What If We Could Feel the Big Data Sugar Rush Faster?
The Halloween candy aisle has me thinking about all the tricks and treats that exist in the quest drive meaningful…
Science Needs to Be Less Certain
A disturbing trend is afoot, where key topics in science are increasingly considered beyond debate—or in other words settled. However,…
Marketing and IT Get Together: The Elephants in the Room
Disclaimer: I am (possibly unfairly) generalizing about two general classes of Business Professionals (Marketing and IT). Please don’t get offended;…
BI Proves Its Worth in the Clothing Industry
Retail has always been an industry that relies heavily on an understanding of how its customers are behaving. This includes…
Information: From Layers to Pillars
BI designers and vendors are very comfortable with layers of data. Data warehouse architectures dating back to the early 1990s…
Revealed: The Top 5 Big Data Use Cases Your CEO Will Love
One of the biggest questions surrounding ‘analytics’ and ‘big data’ is how do you actually use it to add value?…
The Biggest Threat to Cyber Security and What to Do About It
The high level of human error-induced risks does suggest that as measured by column inches most people are looking in…
