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Data Management: 2016’s Hot Trends and What to Watch in 2017

The leading 2016 trends included Hadoop adoption, data lakes, and data warehouse modernization. In 2017 we'll see new activity around the SQL-ization of Hadoop, orchestrated data hubs, and managing IoT sensor data.

The Problem with Bimodal IT

Bimodal IT cannot deliver on its aims because it misses the organizational and personal aspects of an integrated, high-speed, digital business.

2017: Five Data Predictions for the New Year

From disruptions to new technologies, 2017 is shaping up to be an important year for data and the people who use or manage it.

Top Trends in BI and Self-Service Visual Analytics

Organizations need to seek the right balance of freedom and oversight that enable users to get their work done self-service style. Here are four trends that will help organizations achieve that goal in 2017.

Advanced Analytics: A Look Back at 2016 and What's Ahead for 2017

Greater interest (and deployment of) AI, advanced analytics, and open source are among the trends you'll be seeing in 2017.

More Big Databuse

The use and abuse of AI-based chatbots and avatars powered by your own big data may threaten democracy by the 2020 U.S. election far more than this year's fake news.

Data Digest: Cybersecurity Perimeters, Cloud Migration Trend, Security Assessment Value

Rethink what your cybersecurity covers, learn why so many enterprises moved analytics to the cloud, and make your security assessments worthwhile.

Will In-Memory Processing Accelerate Your Azure SQL Workloads?

Microsoft argues that in-memory processing can accelerate OLTP and OLAP workloads. This is true on premises. It's also true -- with a few caveats -- in the cloud.

2016: An Uncanny Year in Review

This year will go down as a strange, even uncanny, kind of year.