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March 21, 2012  5:55 PM

A tale of two data quality theories



Posted by: Linda Tucci
Big Data, big data analytics, Business Intelligence, business intelligence tools, data quality

Data quality is still the bane of the business intelligence (BI) environment. Or so I was told by two consultants I interviewed for an upcoming BI ezine. Even when everyone agrees the data is...

March 14, 2012  5:04 PM

How big data improves an information security strategy



Posted by: Christina Torode
Big Data, big data analytics, big data security, CIO, data-driven security, information security strategy

I learned a new term the other day: data-driven security. I had been talking with Enterprise Management Associates security guru Scott Crawford about remote access...

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February 7, 2012  7:41 PM

Big data is dead (maybe)! Long live analytics apps!



Posted by: Linda Tucci
BI, Big Data, Business Intelligence, CIO, data analytics

Is big data dead already? I guess that depends on how you define it. If you're analyst Mark McDonald, a VP and fellow at Gartner Inc., and you equate big data...


July 7, 2011  7:20 PM

For CIOs, there is a lot more than Hadoop to managing large data sets



Posted by: Linda Tucci
Big Data, CIO careers, CIO role

No matter the topic at hand, lately my conversations with CIOs turn to Big Data -- or, to use my editor's preferred term, large data sets. CIOs have Big Data on the brain -- and for good reason. Business leaders are convinced that mining varied, complex and unstructured large data sets generated...


July 7, 2011  3:44 PM

IT business transformation sums up critical CIO role



Posted by: Christina Torode
Big Data, CIO, Cloud computing, consumerization of IT, IT business transformation, IT leadership

Business transformation and IT transformation no longer are separate items on the enterprise agenda. Now that agenda is all about IT business transformation, as three technology trends work their way into the business processes of many organizations: