Archive for Smarter Planet
IBM’s Big Data Strategy: the sum of the parts
In researching our new book, Big Data for Dummies, it became clear that Big Data is not simply about a specific tool or technique for Big Data analytics. You would never know this by examining the hype around this emerging market. Yes, Hadoop is important but it not the entire big data ecosystem. Big Data is not one tools
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Is Big Data Real and Can IBM Execute on its Vision?
It is inevitable that data would emerge as the most complex and important topics of the next decade. The expansion of the amount and types of data that we have been accumulating across more systems—physical and virtual, applications, and electronic devices – is astounding. These environments generate huge amounts of data – from structured to unstructured – and with increasing
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Can IBM Build a Strong Cloud Partner Ecosystem?
Despite all of the hand wringing surrounding Amazon.com’s service outages last week, it is clear to me that cloud computing is dramatically changing the delivery models of computing forever. We simply will not return to a model where organizations assume that they will consume primarily their own data center resources. The traditional data center certainly isn’t going away but its
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Judith Hurwitz is an author, speaker and business technology consultant with decades of experience. 
