Why Big Data = Big Deal

Why Big Data Needs Big Buffer Switches

Today’s cloud data applications, including Hadoop, Big Data, Search or Storage, are distributed applications running on server clusters with many-to-many communication patterns. The key to achieving predictable performance for these distributed applications is to provide consistent network bandwidth and latency to the various traffic flows since in most cases it is the slowest flow or query com...

Big Data is a big deal but how much data do we need?

Big Data Is a Big Deal But How Much Data Do We Need? The more conservative among us believe that “Big Data is a fad that will soon fade out” and they may in fact be partially right. By contrast, others – especially those who dispassionately note that digitization is only now beginning to deliver its payload – may beg to differ. We argue that all things considered, Big Data will likely cease to ...

Evaluating big deal journal bundles.

Large commercial publishers sell bundled online subscriptions to their entire list of academic journals at prices significantly lower than the sum of their á la carte prices. Bundle prices differ drastically between institutions, but they are not publicly posted. The data that we have collected enable us to compare the bundle prices charged by commercial publishers with those of nonprofit socie...

Big Deal - good deal? Or is there a better deal?

Big Data Quality: From Content to Context

Over the last 20 years, and particularly with the advent of Big Data and analytics, the research area around Data and Information Quality (DIQ) is still a fast growing research area. There are many views and streams in DIQ research, generally aiming at improving the effectiveness of decision making in organizations. Although there are a lot of researches aimed at clarifying the role of BIG data...