Avoiding the Pitfalls in the Mega-Information Age Big data is here—and it is going to keep getting bigger. By 2020, there will be eight billion people on Earth, using 20 billion devices and communicating with 100 billion connected things[1]. By that time, an estimated 1.7 megabytes of new information will be created every second for… Continue reading Three Big Data Mistakes Not to Make
Month: September 2016
It’s Late 2016, What’s the New Rule for Performance Test Environments?
This question was passed around internally last week: “Does anyone on this distribution list have a list of good reasons why a test environment should approximate that of production to provide accurate test results in lieu of using a cheaper, smaller test environment and math to estimate production-like results?” In my former career, we had… Continue reading It’s Late 2016, What’s the New Rule for Performance Test Environments?
Embracing Big Data
What Businesses Can Do to Reign in and Leverage Information It’s a wonderful thing: with the advent of big data, companies can now access, analyze, and leverage a flood of knowledge and use it to improve decision making, performance, and ideal revenues. Take the success story of online bookseller Amazon; its information gurus successfully tracked,… Continue reading Embracing Big Data