Some Higher Ed CIOs Remain Big Data Skeptics

InformationWeek: My first InformationWeek column on big data incited some hot responses, such as: "Who has the time to waste working with software that is so ill featured and unreliable that it is like something out of the '80's?" and "If certain data is important to an institution, then that data belongs in the data warehouse, not in some newfangled database that doesn't even impose validity constraints." The meanest comment was, "Big data is a fad and you're just a shill for the vendors who created the fad because they had run out of things to sell us."

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