Loraine Lawson

How the Internet of Things Will Transform the Data Center Processing and analyzing data from the Internet of Things (IoT) will push more organizations into cloud adoption, a recent Gigaom article predicts. Somewhat surprisingly—at least to me—much of this expansion is expected to come from government agencies. Right now, data processing in the cloud more […]

Six Big Business Intelligence Mistakes Leaders of business intelligence (BI) projects should push for a revamped data architecture that supports more integrated data, even if it means looking at a Big Data option, according to a recent InfoWorld column. In “Why BI projects fail — and how to succeed instead,” software consultant Andrew C. Oliver […]

Four Steps to Ensure Your Big Data Investment Pays Off Recent research by Accenture Analytics shows that nine out of 10 CXOs are happy with Big Data’s business outcome, with leaders at large companies being most satisfied. Enterprises with annual revenues of over $10 billion said Big Data was “extremely important” and reported better results […]

Harnessing the Power of Big Data with Geospatial Mapping The Dollar Shave Club had a bottleneck problem, and his name was Juan. It’s not so much that Juan was the problem, but somehow, any web performance report — no matter how unusual, no matter how frequent — waited on Juan, according to a recent Cite […]

Eight Ways to Put Hadoop to Work in Any IT Department Big Data player Teradata is holding its annual PARTNERS Conference and Expo, happening this week in Nashville, Tennessee. Along with that came the usual pack of press releases and interviews promoting upgrades or new offerings. For Teradata, four main announcements came out of the […]

Mobility: How It’s Changing Our Lives British Gas CIO David Cooper says it isn’t the cost savings that won him over with Hadoop. It wasn’t even the scalability. What made Hadoop a winning choice for the UK utility firm is Hadoop’s ability to answer “what if” questions. CIO UK recently interviewed Cooper, who ranks among […]

Harnessing the Power of Big Data with Geospatial Mapping The idea of data as philanthropy received a Silicon Valley boost this week when Informatica and Cloudera announced plans to support the non-profit, DataKind. Both Informatica, which specializes in data integration, and Cloudera, a Hadoop analytics company, will jointly sponsor DataKind programs and projects. DataKind applies […]

Five Ways Big Data Can Turn Health Data into Actionable Insights One of the reasons I enjoy writing about technology, particularly data technology, is because I believe it can illuminate real-world problems. So you can imagine my frustration when I tried to fact-check the conflicting data on Ebola’s infection rates. One article claimed a case […]

The Value of Information Governance: Finding the ROI Here’s a good reason to change the way you’re handling integration, governance and security: $3 million. That’s the average overall cost of a data breach, according to a recent global study by Axway and Ovum. It’s important to note that while Ovum wrote the report, Axway is […]

The Hadoop Challenge for Business Intelligence and Analytics Users Tech news today is filled with headlines about Salesforce Wave. So you might say Salesforce’s launch into analytics is a marketing success. The real question, though, is whether Wave has the data integration power to back up the recent Internet buzz. Salesforce certainly seems to think […]

Companies are using Big Data, but it’s more of a monitoring tool at this point than a tool for forecasting future trends, according to a recent report by GE and Accenture. “Industrial Internet Insight for 2015” surveyed 250 executives from industrial companies about their use of Big Data analytics. According to OnWindows’ coverage, less than […]

Five Ways to Use Data to Be More Relevant to Customers Will analytics be more successful if you focus on ROI or should you instead focus on key performance indicators that “move the need” toward your business goals? Recently, I’ve seen both positions exposed as a way to ensure success with analytics. Maybe it’s a […]