Mobile BI Takes Data Analysis on the Road

Are you ready for a new “connected business reality”, with mobile networked usage becoming the norm for heavyweight information-analysis applications, such as business intelligence and its cousin Big Data? Mobile BI builds upon the timely convergence of better WAN and mobile connectivity, BYOD and more powerful mobile devices, and new data analysis tools. Its aim [...]

Big Data Has Huge Network Implications

Not everyone has been swept up by the Big Data hoopla which only showed up a year ago in Gartner’s five-stage hype cycle. While it has rosy expectations for the future, the research firm had Big Data approaching its “peak of inflated expectations,” to be followed by trough of disillusionment, slope of enlightenment, and eventually [...]

“Big Data” or just “a lot of data”?

Over the past few years, there have been the bandwagons – full of shiny promises, covered in good words and often totally confused when it comes to how they have been messaged.  From virtualization through cloud and now onto Big Data – end users just begin to start to understand one when the next one [...]