{"id":6811,"date":"2013-04-04T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2013\/apr\/04\/big-data-visualizing-the-strategic-business-imperative\/"},"modified":"2013-04-04T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T13:00:00","slug":"big-data-visualising-the-strategic-business-imperative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/big-data-visualising-the-strategic-business-imperative\/","title":{"rendered":"Big data: Visualising the strategic business imperative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The term Big Data is going to become a key part of the forward-looking business technology debate among informed, proactive and ICT savvy executives. But what&#8217;s really driving the growing demand for meaningful solutions?<\/p>\n<p> While most companies are collecting, storing and analysing data, they continue to struggle with both the business and IT challenges of Big Data &#8212; more data is not necessarily better.<\/p>\n<p> Enormous amounts of data are being generated daily by smartphones, sensors, video cameras, smart meters, and other connected devices, adding to the huge store of information from traditional sources.<\/p>\n<p> This &#8220;data avalanche&#8221; represents a potential gold mine of insights, but a new study commissioned by Cisco reveals that IT professionals and businesses are challenged to extract strategic value from their data.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p>The Cisco Connected World Technology Report (CCWTR) surveyed IT professionals across 18 countries to examine the IT readiness, challenges, technology gaps, and strategic value of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The term Big Data is going to become a key part of the forward-looking business technology debate among informed, proactive and ICT savvy executives. But what&#8217;s really driving the growing demand for meaningful solutions?  While most companies are colle&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}