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Posts in category: Big Data

Tuesday
May 14, 2013

Steve Wellen

Steve Wellen

Chief Operating Officer

Infographic: The Physical Size of Big Data

I can still remember the first time I saw a 1 GB flash drive—it blew my mind. This device, the size of my thumb, could hold the information of 711 3.5-inch floppy disks. Manufacturers had become bona fide magicians, capable of shrinking data right before my eyes. But it’s a darn good thing that data …

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Friday
March 15, 2013

Dan Roden

Dan Roden

Director of Marketing Experience

Introducing Broad Data

“Big Data” has certainly made the most of its recent fame. It’s a vague buzzword for what amounts to a massive pile of data that we are told will take our companies to the next level if we can figure out how to use it. So, here we are, standing around what might as well …

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Thursday
December 13, 2012

Todd Beauchene

Todd Beauchene

Senior Solution Consultant

A Clear View of Your Data

The fact that it gets dark earlier this time of year means that we have more time to study the night sky. For thousands of years, mankind has looked to the night sky in wonder while considering the seemingly numberless stars. A great deal of information has been gathered about the stars themselves, and scientists …

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Friday
November 16, 2012

Thamina Christensen

Thamina Christensen

Marketing Project Manager

One View of the Truth

Last week at the Eloqua Experience conference, I was shocked at the stats confronting businesses. Two-thirds of CMOs believe marketing ROI will be their top effectiveness measurement by 2015. Effective use of sales intelligence increases revenue productivity per sales rep by 17%. 90% of the data in the world today was created in the last …

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Tuesday
November 6, 2012

Josh James

Josh James

Founder, CEO & Chairman of the Board

New Report Shows How to Turn Big Data into Big Bucks

As a CEO, buzzwords or phrases don’t get me excited.  I’d rather show my customers the money than some newfangled acronym or buzzword. Today, big data seems to be one of the most hyped terms in tech. It’s been PowerPointed and white boarded in conference rooms to death. It’s been lauded by tech media as the next …

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Friday
June 8, 2012

Josh James

Josh James

Founder, CEO & Chairman of the Board

How Much Data is Created Every Minute?

Data never sleeps. Every minute massive amounts of it are being generated from every phone, website and application across the Internet. Just how much data is being created and where does it come from? For that you should check out this Domo infographic …

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Wednesday
April 25, 2012

Josh James

Josh James

Founder, CEO & Chairman of the Board

Infographic: Sensory Overload

When I was CEO of a public company, one of the things that amazed me was that in spite of how much data was generated, it was impossible to sort through it all and truly harness the power of that data. That’s why …

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Tuesday
November 22, 2011

Julie Kehoe

Julie Kehoe

VP of Communications

It’s About the Money, Honey

How do you make the enterprise more intelligent? That question was posed to Josh James, Domo founder and CEO, and Godfrey Sullivan, CEO of Splunk, at the Dow Jones VentureWire FASTech Conference in Redwood City, California …

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Thursday
August 25, 2011

Thamina Christensen

Thamina Christensen

Marketing Project Manager

Data, Data Everywhere…

“The problem we have is generating reports from our 26 different states who all use different data sources.” As I listened to this Director of Business Intelligence from a Swiss company at the recent TDWI Conference in San Diego …

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Thursday
August 11, 2011

Jeff Burtenshaw

Jeff Burtenshaw

VP Community Platform

Keeping up with Big Data’s Growth Curve

SAP recently unveiled their Hana offering which is an exciting new data storage technology and started another chapter in the big data, high performance computing saga — a sector now getting lots of attention from the BI industry. And rightly so …

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