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As with All Data, Big Data Needs Governance

Big data presents significant business opportunities when leveraged properly. When poorly governed or managed, big data presents significant business and technology risks.

Careers: Tweaking Your IT Resume

Times and norms have changed. If you don't tweak your resume to reflect these changes, you risk being rejected, set aside, or worse -- dismissed as outdated.

Data Digest: Managing Big Content, Cloud Storage, Data Storytelling

How to handle large amounts of unstructured data, how to optimize your cloud storage, and how data storytelling can help many enterprises.

Mid-Life Crisis? The Analytics Database Appliance at Middle Age

The analytics appliance is fifteen years old, but tech marketers and some industry experts say there's still plenty of demand for MPP database appliances.

How to Resolve Competing Information Management Strategies

The complexity of modern corporations can promote competing data strategies. You need a cohesive strategy before your energy can be focused on solving business problems.

Data Stories: Tracking Trains, Efficient Escalators, Drilling Down

These visualizations show the volume of people on London’s public transit, demonstrate a test to improve crowded escalators, and explore deep beneath the surface of the earth.

Bridging the Gender Gap: Data on Women in Technology

Only 25 percent of jobs related to computing and technology in the U.S. are held by women. New research provides recommendations for encouraging girls and retaining skilled women in IT careers.

Data Digest: Prediction Flaws, Public Cloud Security, Machine Learning with Text

Learn how to apply the lessons of the election to your predictions, what the major security threats in the public cloud are, and how to combine machine learning with unstructured data.

Are You Ready for Algorithmic Retail?

The algorithms are coming. According to Gartner, "algorithmic retail" will overtake and transform the retail market by the year 2020.