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Big data refers to large information assets that demand cost-effective, innovative forms of information processing.

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What is the most interesting/helpful/unique tool you're using right now that no one is talking about?

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Can CIOs act as the CDOs for organizations today? Or do companies really need a separate CDO who can partner with the business and IT to drive digital transformation?

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What do you qualify as "Big Data"? Does it have more to do with the amount of data or the type of data?

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Snowflake Cloud Data Platform and the role of Database Administrators? Snowflake seems to be an ever growing database platform and one requiring little or no database administration--or that's what I was led to believe. It appears that the role of a DBA is still required, but I'm not sure exactly what are the specific responsibilities of a DBA when it comes to supporting Snowflake. Anyone with DBA responsibilities--specifically, system or physical DBA--supporting Snowflake: how is this different/similar to what your DBAs do today with on-prem RDBMS/NoSQL/MPP/DWH or in public cloud instances such as Aurora?

How do you consume third party data? In reports? Dashboards? Do you ever purchase raw data (feeds)?

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How do you see the data warehouse fitting into modern data and analytics architectures?

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What would you teach to a team who knows little about Engineering and what's needed to create a product/service from scratch in Engineering? I was recently hired for an early-stage startup and want to help the founding team see the real scope of what we will be facing.

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What is the one indispensable action you would emphasize for a successful Data Strategy, which would have a lasting impact on your organization's long term competitiveness?

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Is it a challenge to aggregate multiple file and NAS servers to share data between sites in order to optimize performance, capacity, and cost?

Yes, it's a major problem we need to address.20%

We anticipate it will become a problem, but it is not currently an issue.53%

It is not an issue for us.22%

Other (Please share below)3%

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What do organizations get wrong when it comes to data lifecycle management?

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Have you experienced difficulties in gathering insights from your data?

Yes83%

No16%

Is your organization more concerned with cyber threats targeting your brand or your Executive team?

Brand42%

Executives39%

Both Equally18%

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How should we approach the problem of excessive data collection?

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Is it vital to capture every stream of data in your organization to create truly continuous intelligence?

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Which tools are you using, if any, to catalog non-tabular data assets such as video, audio, binary files, xml?

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What are your thoughts on SaaS management platforms (SMP)?