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Data Digest: Cloud Spending, Open Source IoT, and Open Standards

How cloud computing is being adopted by enterprises of all sizes, why manufacturers should turn over the keys of abandoned IoT devices to the open source community, and open standards and open source software development.

The Hadoop Ecosystem: Celebrating 10 Years, Tackling New Challenges

Even after 10 years, Hadoop technologies are still expanding, and I believe that we will soon see progress in two key areas that will improve stability and flexibility.

Finding Value in Email Streams

Getting important information from a simple email involves more potential obstacles than you might imagine.

AWS Is a Money-Making Machine

Amazon’s AWS is now a $10 billion a year business -- and AWS’s data management-related services contribute approximately $1 billion annually to this total. By the looks of it, that share is poised to grow -- perhaps even explode.

Data Digest: Big Data Analytics; Unstructured Data Analytics; and Big Data and Human Management

Easy insights from big data and unstructured data, plus why using big data to evaluate a workforce will likely backfire.

What Kind of Chief Data Officer Is Right for You?

Before an organization hires a CDO -- as more than 1,000 organizations did in 2015 -- it must take stock of how it generates and uses data.

Take an Inventory of Your Data Assets

Do you know what data you have available? Are you making the most of it? These guidelines for a data inventory can help answer these questions.

Taming the Wild Profusion of Data Sources

New solution Tamr learns over time; it's an intelligent midwife for data source and information discovery.

Self-Service Data Analytics Is Transforming BI

New survey links BI success and self-service data solutions.