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Tonic is betting that synthetic data is the new big data to solve scalability and security

TechCrunch

Big data is a sham. There is just one problem with big data though: it’s honking huge. Processing petabytes of data to generate business insights is expensive and time consuming. Processing petabytes of data to generate business insights is expensive and time consuming. What should a company do?

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Identifying budding big data talent in your company

O'Reilly Media - Data

Big data is often called one of the most important skill sets in the 21st century, and it’s experiencing enormous demand in the job market. Hiring data scientists and other big data professionals is a major challenge for large enterprises, leading many to shift their efforts to training existing staff.

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4 Megatrends in Big Data in 2019 and Beyond

Agile Engine

2018 was the second consecutive year when Gartner published an obituary of Big Data. No one, including Gartner, thinks Big Data is dead. Au contraire, Big Data has grown so ubiquitous it became “just data”, argue the authors of the obituaries. Trend 1: From Big Data to “Just Data”.

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Bob Gourley Named One of the Top 100 Big Data Influencers

CTOvision

Cognitio ’s Bob Gourley, publisher of CTOvision , has been named one of the “Top 100 Influencers in the Big Data Landscape” by the leading force in influencer identification Onalytica. From their website: The Big Data technology and services market is one of the fastest growing, multi-billion dollar industries in the world.

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How Big Data Has Transformed Sports

BrainStation Technology

In a relatively short period of time, big data has become a big business in professional sports. The market for sports analytics is expected to reach almost $4 billion by 2022, and teams around the world are racing to find a competitive advantage. And big data played a big role. .

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LMS365, a learning management system built into Microsoft 365 and Teams, raises $20M

TechCrunch

Mortensen retired in 2018 and sold his stake to entrepreneur Johan Wedell-Wedellsborg and Ole Kristoffersen and Steen Skallebæk, founders of Danish bakery chain Ole & Steen. “Our primary markets (around 80%) are services industry, logistics, manufacturing, automotive, health care and government.”

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Big Data System Can Count on Another V, Virtualization

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

Big data refers to the use of data sets that are so big and complex that traditional data processing infrastructure and application software are challenged to deal with them. Big data is associated with the coming of the digital age where unstructured data begins to outpace the growth of structured data.