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With 2014 upon us, it’s the perfect time to celebrate what made this year exceptional. Most outstanding are the insights our bloggers had to share across a spectrum of topics surrounding IT technology. So, what better way to kick-off the New Year than with a countdown of the top 10 InFocus blogs of 2013? Drumroll please… #10. “The Dirty Little Secret of Big Data Projects”—David Dietrich
#9. “New EMC VNX Series—A Game Changer”—Alan Walsh
#8. “Moving IT as a Service from Conversation to Transformation”—Barb Robidoux
#7. “What is Active/Active, and How can it Improve Business Continuity?”—John Linse
#6. “Understanding the Role of Hadoop in your BI Environment”—Bill Schmarzo
Is your organization’s business intelligence brain clogged with massive amounts of unstructured data? Why not free your mind by increasing your Hadoop IQ so you can easily simplify, accelerate, and enhance your BI environment to support on-demand analytics. #5. “Big Data Business Model Maturity Chart”—Bill Schmarzo
#4. “Big Data & NoSQL: The Problem with Relational Databases”—April Reeve
#3. “The IT Transformation Storymap”—Ted Newman
#2. “What it takes to be a Great Consultant…the Top 10 List”—Laddie Suk
#1. “The Big Data Storymap”—Bill Schmarzo
Like what you’ve just read from the best of what InFocus delivered to readers in 2013?Then make it your New Year’s resolution to add our top 10 authors to your Twitter and LinkedIn Networks to not miss more great content next year. In fact, why not get a head start on your resolutions list by following them all now? You will thank yourself in 2014. All you have to do is click on the links below: LinkedIn: Twitter: David Dietrich @imdaviddietrich
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Big Data Projects are not always so sexy and simple. Get the good, the bad, and the ugly from a Data Scientist who’s not afraid to get his hands dirty—lucky for you, he has a number of invaluable tips and tools to share (with links).
A bigger bang for fewer bucks? It’s sounds too good to be true…but this is no card trick; it’s just never-before-seen technology. The next-generation VNX suite is your ace in the performance and capacity game. Best of all, it doesn’t empty out your entire IT wallet.
You can talk the talk, but can you walk the walk? Set a course for precisely where you want to go in your IT journey in 2014 with an IT Transformation workshop. If you haven’t already taken the benchmark survey to see where you do (and do not) stack up against the competition, what are you waiting for?
EMC’s Global Trust in IT Survey shows that downtime during a disaster can potentially cost thousands of business dollars in losses. That’s why you need active/active architecture that focuses on up-time—keeping your IT “always-on and always-available,” so your business doesn’t miss a beat.
Relational databases solutions aren’t cure-alls, and they certainly can’t create miracles out of thin air. Get the facts and a bird’s eye view of the downside and costly disadvantages of relational databases to help you better prepare for data projects and requirements ahead.
Do you think you have what it takes to be a great consultant in the IT and Telecom industries? See if you make the cut by checking off all 10 key attributes on Laddie’s list.
