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Reality mining, pervasive data capture, and how Big Data can create value

Trends in the Living Networks

CIO magazine did a nice article titled IIIS: Big Data driving new trends which reviews my keynote and the one immediately after from Steve Duplessie , one of the world’s top analysts on data and storage. If you look at an office environment there is an extraordinary amount of data to look at.

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Exciting and Virtuous: DigitalGlobe and USGIF cosponsor Hackathon to Crowdsource Geospatial Analytics

CTOvision

DigitalGlobe has partnered with the US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation ( USGIF ) to exercise this crowdsourcing capability by sponsoring a hackathon. DigitalGlobe believes extending our crowdsourcing paradigm beyond crisis mapping to big data analytics is essential to achieving our purpose of Seeing a better world™.

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Motivated Team Of Mission Focused Technologists From Software AG Wins Rapid Integration Challenge of Plugfest

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Exercising this this type of innovation and inter-community cooperation is a great step in the right direction! The “Emergency Operating Center in a Box” concept exercised at PLUGFEST 2014 provides an outstanding forum for ensuring that organizations have, in place, systems by which they can adapt rapidly in a crisis.

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Data-Driven Decision Making: The Differentiator

Helpt

The Rise of Big Data in Business So what’s the lesson to this story? In Ugg and Ogg’s day, they had big rocks. Today, we have big data. The term "big data" refers to datasets that contain more variety, arrive in increasing volumes and with greater velocity ( the three V’s of Big Data ).

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Survey reveals the dynamics of analytics infrastructure decisions

Venture Beast

A Dresner research report finds data science and video use cases are exercising more influence on analytics infrastructure decsisions. Read More.

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Today’s best CIOs are strategy wranglers

CIO Business Intelligence

Strategy today cannot be the top-down, C-suite exclusive exercise it has been in the past. CIOs have to make sure that the strategic “debate” happens and that all key stakeholders participate. Emerging from such debates should be a will to act. It is a bunch of people who decide to do something together.

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United States Congress Permanent Joint Committee on Information Technology

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The joint committee was also entitled by statute to be kept “fully and currently informed” of all commission activities and vigorously exercised that statutory right, demanding information and attention from the executive branch in a fashion that arguably has no equivalent today. So must the executive branch.

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