Author: Kent Fidler

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

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