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Data Digest: IoT Focus: Media Perceptions, Preparing Your Infrastructure, Early Challenges

Today learn why media coverage of IoT devices is leading to widespread skepticism, what infrastructure changes you can make to prepare your enterprise for IoT data, and how enterprises using IoT aren’t yet making full use of their potential.

Data Spending Moving to the Cloud

The reallocation of IT spending from traditional on-premises to cloud resources will impact about $1 trillion in IT spending through 2020. We look at four key spending shifts.

Data Digest: Handling IoT Data and IoT Security, Using Competitive Intelligence

Read these articles for advice on establishing IoT data governance, improving IoT security at the management level, and integrating competitive intelligence into your marketing.

How to Solve 3 Common Data Challenges

Financial companies are often leaders in data-driven practices. We explore how to avoid or overcome three common data challenges these providers face.

The End of Hadoop as We've Known It?

Gartner's Merv Adrian dropped a bombshell last month, predicting that Hadoop as we know it may soon cease to exist.

Is Quantum the Future of High-Performance Analytics?

Quantum computing is still more theory than practice, but it might answer questions that are unsolvable by current computers. Earlier this year, IBM made a small quantum computer available via the cloud.

Data Digest: Big Data Privacy and Security, Unstructured Data Benefits

Find out why you should de-identify certain kinds of big data, what problems to watch for with big data security, and why you should be using unstructured data.

Data Digest: Choosing Data Storage, Managing Big Data, BI Basics

In these articles, read the pros and cons of choosing a data lake versus a data warehouse, learn how to manage the growing flood of data, and understand the basic principles and tools of modern BI.

Career Advice for Analysts: Find the Passion

Do you know what skills make different analytics practitioners more valuable to an employer? Here's advice on reaching the next level so you can compete for the most coveted jobs.