At this year’s Powering the Cloud event we will be
addressing, through our Spotlight Sessions, five of the most important issues
for CIOs over the next few years. In doing so we will attempt to address more
than just the technology issues, rather the broader business opportunities and
challenges.
The first subject we will address is the much hyped ‘Big
Data & Analytics’ where today there are lots of articles and discussions on
the technology surrounding it, with little focus on the business opportunity
and how deep analytics of big data should be used to increase customer care and
product quality, delivering loyalty, reputation and higher profitability. Most
importantly in this tough economic times giving the organisation a major
Competitive Advantage.
And it is not just commercial
businesses that aim to prosper from Big Data & Analytics as according to
IDC in their ‘Government Insights’ report ‘Western
European government executives will invest first in Big Data methodologies and
technologies.’ Silvia Piai, research manager, IDC EMEA Government Insights
commented that "Big Data represents a cultural shift in how government
organizations operate."
Despite
the optimism about the growth of government activity in this are the concern is
that the report concludes that ‘government Big Data initiatives could fail to
deliver adequate return on investment due to narrowly focused technical
implementations that take into account only the volume aspect of Big Data and
neglect variety and velocity’.
It
is this issue of too narrow a focus on the technology that we plan to address
during our Spotlight Session.
If you look at IDC’s figures
in their ‘Worldwide Big Data Technology and Services 2012 – 2015 Forecast’
they show that organisations spend for 2011 showed that 41.5% went on services,
29.7% on software and 28.8% on servers, storage and networking.
Most observers believe that this percentage spent on
services will rise quite substantially as organisations embrace the cloud to
manage the scalability they will need to cope with the volumes of data and the
different sources from which it is obtained.
During the session we will address the whole are of ‘Big
Data and the Cloud’, and the practicality of running Big Data & Analytics
within a cloud or hybrid environment. We plan to have case studies showing
cloud deployments and the challenges and opportunities that represents and how
organisations have prospered by such deployments.
One of the most important topics we will address is
‘Completing the Loop’. How Big Data & Analytics is not a snap shot process
rather one of continually improving data, analytics, processes, procedures and
results. This is really where the Business Outcome is the most important factor
and where the organisation gets the pay back.
Just as important for all directors and managers of European
businesses is the topic of ‘Big Data and the Law’, the legal implications of
what is stored, where it is stored and the responsibilities of user and
datacenter/cloud owner. There are new proposals from the European Union on data
ownership, retention, usage and storage and we will look deeply into the
implications of these proposals to business owners.
In taking this broad view of Big Data & Analytics we
cannot ignore the implications on the technology within the data center. So we
will be covering subjects such as designing
Big Data storage infrastructures and how to address the processing and
communications challenges posed by streaming data, social media data, multimedia
content, M2M and mobile activity and events.
At a software strategic level topics like Business
Database Management: Dealing with Big Data and when to use columnar data
warehouses, analytic appliances, Hadoop, and MapReduce for complex, big data
workloads will be explored.
The overall objective of this Spotlight Session is to
familiarise delegates with all the business and technology issues around Big
Data & Analytics. Show the opportunities that this opens up for all types
of organisations and give enough detail so that delegates can go back to the
office with a much deeper understanding and ready to start their Big Data &
Analytics projects or take their existing ones on to the next level.
If you would like to join in the discussion then register
to attend Powering the Cloud www.poweringthecloud.com/ , most presentations
will include Q&A and panel sessions where you can give your views alongside
your peers. I look forward to meeting you and exchanging ideas.
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ReplyDeleteRuby Badcoe
Hi Ruby,
DeleteData Security and privacy is one of the main topics in our Spotlight sessions at Powering the Cloud
regards
john
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