Harvard medical professor: Big data and analytics help cure cancer
In almost every industry, aggregating data on a large scale and running predictive analytics have the power to improve our lives. With healthcare, this power is magnified because conclusions drawn from analytics can directly affect patient health and well-being. Unfortunately, discussions of so-called big data applications often are filled will vendor hype and sales hyperbole. […]
Data Democracy: Ready to Transform Business
The barriers that have stood between business data – and the true value it holds – are finally coming down. Access to data is finally being democratized within organizations. The access costs and operational and IT silos are coming down, and for the first time any collaborative team, virtually anyone in an organization can get […]
Optimizing the Use of Big Data in 2014 – 4 Essential Tips
According to 2014 IDG Enterprise Big Data Research, the average investment enterprises plan to make in big data initiatives in 2014 is $8 million. Also, 49% respondents are already implementing big data projects or have plans to implement them in the future. Businesses have realized the importance of leveraging big data and converting it into […]
Zyrion Launches Predictive Analytics for IT Monitoring
Seemingly every day another vendor launches a service that promises to revolutionize the way they monitor their IT infrastructure. Generally these launches comply with all the buzzword – cloud, big data, predictive analytics etc. While I’ve no doubt that IT infrastructure monitoring is vitally important, it seems that vendors, in
