Mike Ferguson on Big Data (ComputerWeekly 500)

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Managing and making sense of huge volumes of mostly unstructured information is a growing issue for IT leaders, one that has come to be known as “big data”, and many experts point to this as a key trend for 2012. In this CW500 Club video, independent analyst Mike Ferguson, managing director of Intelligent Business Strategies, […]

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ComputerWeekly guest blogpost by Mike Ferguson, “A Decade of Hadoop”

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This is a ComputerWeekly guest blogpost by analyst Mike Ferguson on the 10th anniversary of Hadoop’s becoming a separate Apache subproject. In the 10 years since Hadoop became an Apache project the momentum behind it as a key component platform in big data analytics has been nothing short of enormous. In that time we have […]

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Smart Infrastructure and Smart Applications for the Smart Business

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Over the last 30+ years I have been in the industry, I can’t remember a time when the IT infrastructure and application landscape of most of my clients has been so complicated. Today we have hardware servers, clusters, virtual servers, storage systems, file systems, databases servers, virtual storage, content management systems, application servers, cloud-based applications, […]

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Real-Time Analytics – The Route to Continuous Risk Management and Business Optimisation

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Several surveys this year have indicated a significant rise in the importance of analytics. These include the BI Survey 2014, the 2014 Wisdom of Crowds® Advanced and Predictive Analytics Market Study and the Information Week 2014 Analytics, BI, and Information Management Survey which highlighted the top two factors driving interest in advanced analytics as: The […]

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