Finding the business value in big data is a big problem

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	Finding the business value in big data is a big problem For all the promise of big data, the fundamental challenge with collecting massive volumes of data from different sources is finding new business uses for it, according to several IT managers at Computerworld's BI & Analytics Perspectives event. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: FileMaker, Inc Create, deploy and manage custom business apps for iPad The FileMaker Platform is a complete software suite to create, deploy, and manage custom business apps for iPad and iPhone. Design and build stunning iOS apps. Integrate mobile apps into existing enterprise systems. Deploy and instantly update your apps. Secure your apps with industry-standard authentication. Learn more, Watch overview video, Read the white paper > In this Issue Susan Feinberg: Big Data? How about Big VALUE Data? SAS CEO: Big role for CIOs in big data challenge SAP unveils HANA-powered cloud-based performance management apps 5 enterprise alternatives to Dropbox ioSafe unveils new disaster-proof NAS cloud appliance UCLA study documents wireless data overcharges Polish town highlights oddities in Facebook's personal data disclosures AMD's new SeaMicro server talks to 5-petabyte storage cluster RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Hortonworks Live Webinar Series: The Future of Apache Hadoop Hadoop has evolved rapidly to become the leading platform for managing, processing and analyzing big data. Join us in this 4-part series with the core committers of the Apache Hadoop projects to gain insight into Pig, Ambari, Zookeeper and YARN. Learn use-cases and best practices on how to get started with Hadoop and live Q&A. Register now! Susan Feinberg: Big Data? How about Big VALUE Data? Big Data discussions should really be about Big Value Data -- data that's truly mission-critical to the enterprise -- rather than merely Big Data, the vast majority of which is unactionable intelligence that isn't critical to most missions. Read More SAS CEO: Big role for CIOs in big data challenge Big Data is not a new phenomenon and has been around for many years, noted Jim Goodnight, CEO at SAS, who spoke recently at the SAS High Performance Analytics Conference in Hong Kong. Read More SAP unveils HANA-powered cloud-based performance management apps SAP unveiled a line of cloud-based EPM (enterprise performance management) applications that run on top of its HANA in-memory database platform. Read More 5 enterprise alternatives to Dropbox The recent Dropbox data breach has many IT executives telling employees not to use it. These five products offer the administrative and security features that may restore their faith in cloud data storage. Read More WHITE PAPER: TRUSTe A Comprehensive Data Privacy Plan As the increase in doing business and sharing of information, or data, online continues to grow exponentially, the importance of developing a data privacy strategy is critical. Read this white paper and learn how to develop a comprehensive strategy. Read Now! ioSafe unveils new disaster-proof NAS cloud appliance Like an aircraft black box, the new ioSafe N2 is built for vulnerable data that is stored and shared on a network. Read More UCLA study documents wireless data overcharges A recent study by four UCLA computer science researchers documents what some wireless data customers have long suspected -- they can get charged for wireless data access they never used. Read More Polish town highlights oddities in Facebook's personal data disclosures Facebook's store of data about its users holds some surprises, and not just in the sheer quantity of data it is sitting on. Read More AMD's new SeaMicro server talks to 5-petabyte storage cluster Advanced Micro Devices has launched the first new products from its SeaMicro acquisition earlier this year, including a server that can be linked to a massive, 5-petabyte storage cluster for running large-scale big data and cloud computing applications. Read More
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