CIO Perspective: Undercover IT Risks
A big portion of the CIOs time are spent on the risk mitigation. Common risks are security breaches, disaster scenarios and the relevant financial risks of implementing/not implementing certain technologies….
Will Google Glass Change Society for the Worst?
The mobile phone is accused of killing face-to-face human interaction. Facebook is now inserting suggested pages and advertisements that are making users very angry. What can be expected from Google…
I have a diverse background. An ocean-going master mariner that had a sharp mid-life career change to a childhood love (the computers) and then a Microsoft Certified Trainer. Luckily, this…
Big Data #8: Big Data for the Small and Medium-sized Businesses
Internet has created equal opportunities for all enterprises worldwide. Whether you were a huge enterprise or a startup, you could build a website and send marketing materials right away without…
Big Data #7: Preparing for the Big Data Workflows
I have extensively discussed Big Data’s impact on the corporate data center in my previous article. Today, I will be discussing about the workflows that come with Big Data. Just…
Big Data #6: Before Giving Your Big Data Project to a Contractor …
Big Data people are the rock stars of the corporate IT. Their salaries and benefits are high in the sky and still climbing, the supply still not able to satisfy…
Big Data #5: Outsourcing: How to Choose a Big Data Vendor
I have just discussed that the overall best way to go with your Big Data project is to start with people inside your company. However, there will be times when…
Big Data #4: Developing In-house Talent
Big Data without doubt is of strategic importance to any company. It is a hot topic on the corporate IT side, many enterprises are trying to hop on the bandwagon…
Big Data #3: Impact on the Data Center
Big data brings a big load on the data center. Its name already implies that there is a vast amount of data to be managed. The management of the data…
Big Data #2: Planning for the Big Data Analytics
Implementing big data and business analytics are two intertwined areas in current business and IT infrastructure. For many enterprises, big data analytics are in implementation or development stages, offering almost…
Big data has already become part of our lives. If we review what big data is, s.i.c. from Wikipedia, it is “a collection of data sets so large and complex…
Crowdsourcing: Is It Effective for Your Business?
There is a practice that has been around for a few years. The term, “Crowdsourcing” is attributed to Jeff Howe (contribution editor at Wired magazine) in 2006, yet the practice…