3 keys to the Big Data fast-track
October 31, 2016 by Mary Allen

Creators of data integrity, integration and intelligence solutions Information Builders (IB) work hard to educate users on how to derive business value from their data. In the Big Data era, this goal is particularly important, as the majority of enterprises have shown interest in Hadoop technologies, but lack the skills needed for production deployment of analytics and BI.

At a recent Toronto workshop, IB outlined a three pronged approach that organizations can use to accelerate Big Data projects: IT and LOB managers must develop strategy around Big Data set up and execution; the database administrator, developer and information management officer must collaborate on the technical aspects of data preparation; and the business analyst must understand how to quickly mine the data and push information to the appropriate audience.
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Dell EMC World 2016 – a study in integration
October 24, 2016 by Mary Allen

Michael Dell argued in his keynote address to 8,000 attendees at the first ever DELL EMC World, that the newly merged company's “unique structure" allows it to "be nimble like a startup, but also able to quickly scale” to new solutions.

This ability to muster resources from across the company to meet new demand depends to a great extent on integration. Six weeks into its formal merger, Dell EMC was able to report some progress on the people, process and technology fronts. But the jewel in the integration crown – described by Michael Dell in his keynote kickoff as the Dell EMC “new brand for infrastructure” is the VxRail converged systems portfolio. Read more