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Wi-Fi analytics SaaS can make retail cool

Customers are starting to seek personalized retail experiences and this might be step one for your network.

Oct 5, 2017 5 mins

Big Data Network Management Software SaaS

Measuring the economic value of data

Who is winning with data, where is this data being kept, what makes new data different, when should data be kept, moved, deleted or transformed, how should data be valued, and why data is so much more important than it used to be?

By Joan Wrabetz

Sep 14, 2017 4 mins

Big Data Data Center

Today’s property rules don’t work in our IoT world

We used to own our things, but increasingly our things own us. The laws need to change to restore our traditional rights of property and ownership to the digital times.

By Dave Michels

Sep 12, 2017 5 mins

Big Data Internet of Things Security

When networks hit the wall

As more consumers turn to over-the-top video streaming services and viewers’ expectations grow, can quality of experience failures be avoided?

By Stephen Alexander

Sep 5, 2017 5 mins

Big Data Cloud Computing Networking

Connected IoT is about to become cognitive IoT

‘Ubiquitous connectivity’ and machines understanding humans — those will be among the drivers behind a rapid jump in IoT implementations.

By Patrick Nelson

Aug 30, 2017 3 mins

Big Data Internet of Things

Get ready for new storage technologies and media

Intel's new 1 petabyte storage drive that fits a 1U rack is just one of a slew of new memory form factors and technologies we’ll be seeing in the future.

By Patrick Nelson

Aug 23, 2017 3 mins

Big Data Intel

Imanis Data focuses on big data backup and recovery

New features in Imanis Data 3.0 include backup of very large data sets, faster data recovery and support for multiple platforms.

By Andy Patrizio

Aug 15, 2017 2 mins

Backup and Recovery Big Data Disaster Recovery

ETL is slowing down real-time data analytics

Many IT professionals say the data transformation tool ETL hinders companies’ ability to do real-time analytics, and they are looking for alternatives.

By Andy Patrizio

Aug 7, 2017 3 mins

Big Data Data Center

Tapping big data to predict the future

Franz Inc. adds future predictive analytics to its data visualization tool, Gruff 7.0, allowing users to create what-if scenarios and uncover hidden relationships

By Andy Patrizio

Aug 1, 2017 2 mins

Big Data

A radical innovation that could reduce data density by 50%

A new ‘beyond binary’ method of coding data, along with chemical films and dyes, could drastically reduce the amount of space we need to store information

By Patrick Nelson

Jul 25, 2017 3 mins

Big Data