Data, Data and More Data

December 19, 2012 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Data, Data and More Data

New frameworks and the seemingly endless clouds have made it very easy to collect large amounts of data. It has become more affordable, and the data is multiplying faster than rabbits on fertility drugs. Eventually, though, big data is going to have to show some return on investment.

IT Business Edge brought this news to our attention in their article, “Making Big Data Really Accessible.” The IT professionals at Splunk, a provider of an open source tool for indexing and searching machine data, are keeping this in mind. They believe that a more cost-effective approach to making all the data more accessible to the entire enterprise is possible. Their newest product release, Splunk 4.3, is one attempt.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.