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Wednesday, November 04, 2015

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A Platform for All Data, Big and Small

Stephen Swoyer

The recent Strata + Hadoop World Conference was packed with a panoply of players, many of them start-ups or upstarts. Computing giant HP was on hand to trumpet its array of big data-oriented products and services, at the core of which is its Vertica MPP database platform.

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Finding Use Cases for Big Data

Matt Lindsay

Collecting lots of data is inexpensive. Finding the right place to use that data is crucial for getting the greatest benefit.

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Securing the Internet of Things

Raghu Sowmyanarayanan

The Internet of Things (IoT) holds great promise for a more intelligent, efficient, safe, and even anticipatory means of human adaptation to the environment, be it natural or manmade. IoT has the potential to enable improvements to many facets of life. It's enabling the interconnectedness of "things" and resulting insights and synergies, yet that very connectedness raises concerns for security and privacy that must be addressed.

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Cisco Takes on Data Prep in Manhattan

Stephen Swoyer

At the Strata + Hadoop World Conference in New York, Cisco trumpeted its new partnership with Paxata, a respected purveyor of self-service data preparation software. Cisco also announced Cisco Data Preparation, a data-prep product that's the first fruit of that partnership.

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Best of TDWI's Data Digest

Quint Turner

Interesting articles we found on the Web focus on BI misconceptions, big data disillusionment, securing mobile devices, working with data scientists, and outsourcing IT.

TDWI Webinar Series:

IoT Analytics: Analytics at the Edge

Speaker: Fern Halper

November
5
9:00AM PT
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The Internet of Things -- a network of connected physical objects that can send and receive data over the Internet -- is hot, but what's it all about? This Webinar presents an overview of IoT; discusses a framework for thinking about IoT analytics; explores IoT trends, status, and industry use cases; and reveals how to get started with the technology.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Predictive Analytics Meets the IoT: Harnessing the Opportunity, Overcoming the Challenges

Learn about market trends and opportunities for the Internet of Things, plus explore the platforms and analytics technologies that support it and how to overcome IoT challenges.

Speaker: Fern Halper

November
10
9:00AM PT

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Agile Approaches to Data Warehouse Modernization

This Webinar explores the motivations for adopting new technology, considers the organizational and pragmatic challenges to bringing new stuff in, and discusses how to balance adoption into a hybrid environment that can both satisfy the growing cadre of data scientists and not disrupt the existing technical environment trusted by existing data consumers.

Speaker: David Loshin

November
17
9:00AM PT

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