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First, the hackers went after the Target customers, which was an annoyance to customers and briefly caused them to seek their chevron-print cocktail trays and 24-roll packages of toilet paper elsewhere. Then it was the Home Depot customers, which caused a fair number of headaches and briefly drove some customers to Lowe’s or Menard’s (or at least gave them a good reason to put off fixing their squeaky garage doors).... More Info

Data analysis may be the single, largest business driver for service providers and enterprises today. The insights derived from analyzing various data sources to make strategic decisions are transforming organizations into a new, data-driven culture.... More Info

The first hard drive my family owned had less memory capacity than my latest smartphone, cost more, and used much more power. Today, hard drives are huge, cheap and plentiful, but fundamentally the financial data I stored in 1990 is just as valuable as the data I just backed up on my Google Drive.... More Info

Communications service providers (CSPs) all over the globe are seeing an unprecedented rise in volume, variety and velocity of information due to next generation mobile network roll-outs, increased use of smartphones, the rise of social media, and the impending explosion of the Internet of Things (IoT). There are two additional "V"s to consider as well: veracity and value.... More Info

Evolution is one of life’s certainties, and it is manifesting in the digital and communications industry in the form of a new breed of big data, bolstered by predictive analytics and machine-learning capabilities. The increasing volume, variety and velocity of data is making this evolution necessary.... More Info