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This week, IBM is hosting its annual Big Data and analytics conference, Information on Demand, in Las Vegas. More than thirteen thousand people from a wide range of industries flew in to find out how investing in IT, Big Data and analytics can ultimately boost business and better their organizations.
This week’s Data Analytics News Roundup brings you articles that will make you feel like you’re right there at IBM Information on Demand 2013.
- Visual Analytics is Making Big Data More Accessible, Actionable at IT World Canada: “IBM said that visual analytics is vital to making big data-driven analytics more accessible, and to take it from the data scientist experts and put the information in the hands of the people empowered to make better business decisions. And it makes the data easier to process by the key piece of the analytics process – the human brain.”
- Information On Demand 2013: Are You of the Data Kind? at Internet Evolution: “Fortunately, in today’s kickoff, the overtones were much less forbearing, although I’m not convinced yet in the big data realm there’s nearly enough talk about the implications of the future we’re still defining, implications like security, privacy, access, and control of all this information being gathered and used for (insert organization here)’s benefit, exactly?”
- IBM Information on Demand Forum Focuses on Cloud-Based Data Analytics at eWeek: “Among the new products IBM announced at the conference was an early access preview of BLU Acceleration for Cloud, which combines in-memory databases and business analytics with Cognos Business Intelligence tools to leverage what IBM is calling ‘agile data warehousing.’As part of this package, IBM also release a new version of the SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center that’s designed to automatically adjust storage provisioning based on an enterprises data usage patterns.”
- Top Quotes From #IBMIOD: @theCUBE 2013 at SiliconANGLE: “IBM IoD is all about putting Big Data and analytics to work, democratizing data across an organization so everyone’s able to make better decisions and work more efficiently. As noted during SiliconANGLE’s #IBMIOD CrowdChat, you can see IBM’s focus on Big Data with its recent acquisition of the Now Factory and Daeka Image Systems Ltd., as well as IBM’s recent collaboration with Deutsche Telekom to provide the IBM MobileFirst platform in the cloud to European SMB customers.”
- IBM Answers Big Data Competition at InformationWeek: “In the big data era, some have realized that IT monitoring and event data might reveal leading indicators that can help IT anticipate and prevent problems rather than diagnose failures after the fact. Where many IT monitoring systems are all about setting thresholds and alerts for one system at a time, the idea behind Predictive Insights is to combine large sets of information and find correlations and anomalies in data that yield predictive insights.”
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