By: Tim Young
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). Then it was Sony, but the outcry about data security was muted by the simultaneous realization that emails about Spiderman are entertaining…
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By: Rick Kapani
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. This emerging data-driven culture promotes informed decision making across the organization, supported by a measurement and feedback
process to evaluate the results of such decisions, and the ability to link the results to significant shifts in organizational behavior…
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By: Jesse Cryderman
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. Similarly, big data is constantly in the news; but what’s more important than its “bigness”
is how the data is used to solve real business problems in real-time. This is particularly true for communications service providers (CSPs) who have been riding the wave as the big data buzz has
turned from storage and capture to real-time operational intelligence…
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By: Jesse Cryderman
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. (And
to read more about these five "V"s in action, make sure to check out Dinesh Dhanasekharan and Kelly LeBoeuf's piece in this month's issue…
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By: Mikko Jarva
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. Mobile data traffic alone will increase at an estimated compound annual growth
rate (CAGR) of 57 percent between 2014 and 2019, according to Cisco. Moreover, an influx of 50 billion connected devices by 2020– from smart cars, to smart shoes, to smart washing machines – will
produce even more information…
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By: Suzanne Clayton
Rapper, Black Eyed Peas frontman and entrepreneur, will.i.am grabbed attention at the March Mobile World Congress in Barcelona by describing the future of the digital content ecosystems with
the word iDATAty. The word is meant to encompass how data mining will help companies and people connect with no search engines and no middlemen. This concept represents the behavioral side of the
Internet of Things: that massive proliferation of connected devices, networks, systems and people that promises to help us avoid car accidents, know when our appliances are about to break down, and
keep us healthy…
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By: Lars Mansson
There’s a compelling argument that, when it comes to data processing, telcos underutilized an application in their IT stacks: mediation. It’s worth understanding why because with a grasp of the
reasons, CSPs can make significant progress in both data and service management for little additional outlay (of either time or money) simply by re-purposing or extending an existing technology
investment. In a market where budgets are tight, lead-times short and finding competitive advantage is critical, this matters…
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By: Ari Banerjee
Today’s consumers are all about instant gratification and getting their demands met immediately. They want to be seamlessly connected to the people, devices, content and experiences they care
about most, and they want more intelligent devices, contextually aware applications, mobile apps and portals to deliver more personalized content.But when every operator out there has similar
networks and services, the only way they can stand out from the pack is by offering a superior customer experience…
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By: Jesse Cryderman
According to researcher and tech author Bernard Marr, every two days humanity creates as much data as it did from the beginning of time to 2003. Every minute of the day, Facebook
users share nearly 2.5 million elements of content and WhatsApp users share around 350,000 photos. And the world is far from fully connected. When the next billion Internet users come online, these
numbers will only skyrocket. Fold in the data generated by connected machines and the Internet of Things (IoT), and we're talking lots and lots of zeros…
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By: Jay Klein
With the rise of social media, the proliferation of devices and new network rollouts, consumers are continually increasing their use of applications and video streaming. These elements are all
driving exponential growth in the volume and breadth of big data available to communications service providers (CSPs), which can be seen as both a challenge and an untapped gold mine. Given the
sheer volume and many types of data that are being collected, the labor needed to source and manage that data alone inhibits organizations and CSPs from finding the value in the data or being able
to monetize the insights…
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By: Dinesh Dhanasekharan, Kelly LeBoeuf
The Big Data train has left the station and is moving full steam ahead. It can be mind-boggling when you consider what happens on the Internet in just 60 seconds. And, its growing leaps
and bounds every day. In fact, industry analysts predict that global data traffic will be 100 trillion GB by 2025.By the time you read the opening of this article, look at what will happen:
What does this mean for organizations today? Well, one thing is for sure:
we need to be prepared on all fronts…
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By: Jesse Cryderman
Remember when cameras were added to flip phones? It seems like eons ago. But less than a decade ago, consumers were happy to take grainy, low-res snapshots from the palm of their hands. Mobile
video was close behind. Verizon’s V-cast, which delivered similarly grainy low-res video, became relatively popular. Then the smartphone revolution happened, and the rest is history. Today, YouTube
users upload 100 hours of video every minute, and the pace continues to increase. Streaming and on-demand video has overtaken appointment-based pay-TV…
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By: Jesse Cryderman
Verizon tops performanceMobile network operators make all sorts of claims in their non-stop marketing: fastest network, most reliable network, largest network. Cut through the marketing fog,
and what's the truth? The latest report from RootMetrics provides some answers, and it paints Verizon as the clear leader in the US.First, a little background on methodology. Here's how
RootMetrics explains their process:"To determine which network is leading the performance race in the first half of 2015, we drove over 237,000 miles while testing performance on highways and in
big cities, small towns, and rural areas across the US…
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By: Tim Young
“Information is Not knowledge. Knowledge is Not wisdom.”- Frank Zappa, “Packard Goose,” Joe’s Garage, Act III This quote - or at least the first part - is frequently attributed to Albert
Einstein. However, I couldn’t find any concrete confirmation that Einstein ever said it, and that poor, dear man gets so many dubious quotes pinned on him. I hope that somewhere, on some ethereal
plane, Einstein, Winston Churchill, Mark Twain, Ben Franklin and maybe Socrates are just sitting around playing a game of “did you say that?” So imagine my delight when I COULD confirm that those
words were uttered by legendary weirdo Frank Zappa…
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