INSIGHT: Is Big Data Enough?
“I am concluding very quickly that “Big Data” as we have viewed it for the last five years is not enough.”
“I am concluding very quickly that “Big Data” as we have viewed it for the last five years is not enough.”
Ross Farrelly, Chief Data Scientist, Teradata A/NZ has identified five steps to help organisations build a great data science team.
“Companies that are effective at leveraging Big Data are growing at a higher rate than those that are not."
"We know that technology has the capability to change the world: from the Gutenberg printing press to the steam engine to the microchip.”
“It’s not about Big Data, it’s about all data. Of all these predictions, and all the others you’ve likely read over the past month, that’s the one you can take to the bank – literally.”
The rapid pace of innovation across all IT will continue into 2015 to usher in the era of integration, and according to Intel, the A/NZ region is well placed to capitalise.
Kevin Bloch, Chief Technology Officer, Cisco Australia and New Zealand delivers his top 10 ICT trends in 2015.
3rd Platform technologies are fundamentally altering how IT organisations function, how business is conducted, and how enterprises compete.
“Bigger players in the market are less willing to concede defeat to AWS and Azure. Such is the case with VMware and Google."
Traditional business intelligence (BI) and analytic models are being disrupted as the balance of power shifts from IT to the business.
“Don't let the layoff win. Instead, consider making it one of the best things that ever happened in your career.”
“In 2015, solutions providers must exceed the expectations of business decision makers."
"The change in forecast is less dramatic than it might at first seem,” says John-David Lovelock, research vice president, Gartner.
Who says storage can’t be sexy? It’s fast-paced, seeing revolutionary technological change, players are striving to innovate and meet customer’s ever-growing demands for escalating data, and it is adapting to the impact of the sexy business game-changers like Cloud computing and Big Data.
A select group of ARN's guests discussed the challenges for the channel in the now-mainstream Cloud world, and how businesses need to adapt - quickly.
The top focus for IT services spending in the coming 12 months will be spread across five key areas...
“The availability of IT is more important than ever... yet businesses globally are being failed by an IT industry."
Paul Muckleston, Microsoft New Zealand’s managing director, says he is very pleased that the Australian Azure datacentres are being so well received.
Akamai Technologies, an engineering-heavy company that delivers a sizable chunk of the Internet's total traffic every day, is generally inclined to solve its technology challenges in house. Corey Scobie, vice president for Open Platform at Akamai, summarizes the company's default engineering culture and philosophy as, simply, "We should built it."
It's so far been another sorry, sorry year in the technology industry, with big name companies, hot startups and individuals making public mea culpas for their assorted dumb, embarrassing and other regrettable actions.