The tail end of 2017 saw the official delivery of Hadoop 3.0 from the Apache Software Foundation. With it came HDFS erasure coding, which enables a significant reduction in storage overhead and its costs. Opting to use erasure coding instead of three-way replication – in which three copies of each block of data must be […]
Dawn of the Chief Digital Officer
The term “CDO” has typically refered to Chief Data Officer. But some industry leaders make the case for revising it to mean Chief Digital Officer. One of them is Langley Eide, Chief Strategy Officer at Data Science and Analytics platform vendor Alteryx. A Chief Digital Officer title, she says, “leans forward into digital transformation,” and […]
Lighting a Fire Under Enterprise Data Science
How do we characterize a good Data Science professional? A well-trained Data Scientist can deal with dirty data and knows how to cleanse it the right way to avoid compromising analysis at the back end. He or she is the individual who the CEO should be thanking for preventing a multi-billion-dollar mistake when some random […]
Putting Blockchain Models to Work within the Enterprise
Bitcoin has made many people familiar with the term “Blockchain.” But many enterprises don’t realize that the foundational pieces that comprise this model already may be in place in one form or another for internal Blockchain use cases. Though likely they have not been packaged together to drive similar benefits within an organization. These pieces […]
The Future of Data Storage
What’s the most expensive thing you can do with a piece of data? “Throw it out,” said Douglas Brockett, the President at the data protection and scale-out data storage vendor StorageCraft in a recent DATAVERSITY® interview. Yet, many enterprises may be concerned that they won’t have the ability to keep all their potentially valuable data […]
Good Master Data is Good Business
Every building needs a solid foundation. The same is true for businesses – and their foundation is data. “The data is in charge of the business,” according to Scott Taylor, Dun & Bradstreet’s Master Data Market Development and Innovation Lead. “If you don’t have it right, it causes most of your problems.” Perhaps the biggest […]
Building the Future of Women in Data
Careers involving data expertise are soaring. Data skills have seen significant growth in recent years, according to The Quant Crunch report. By 2020, the report predicts, the number of positions for data and analytics talent in the United States will increase by 364,000 openings, to 2,720,000. Clinical Data Analysis (+54 percent) Data Science (+40 […]
Driving Data Quality
Ensuring optimal Data Quality is a difficult and often problematic task for many organizations. A study of 75 executives conducted over the last couple of years revealed that only 3 percent found that their departments fell within the minimum acceptable range of 97 or more correct data records out of 100, according to an account […]
Data Governance Trends in 2018
Data Governance isn’t what it used to be. That’s not a criticism at what it has been in the past. It’s just a heads up that going into 2018; Data Governance is evolving in exciting new ways as it takes on even greater urgency for organizations of every size. In the past, says Kelle O’Neal, […]
Data Strategy Trends in 2018
As the calendar page has turned to 2018, a sound Data Strategy remains a goal for many companies, but still somewhat elusive. “2017 underscored just how fundamental, and fundamentally difficult, the changes needed to manage data assets/become data-driven really are,” says Thomas C. Redman, president of Data Quality Solutions. The fact that only 3% of […]