Future of Data Summit Tackles AI, Machine Learning - InformationWeek

Innovative enterprises have made data collection and analytics a central part of digital transformation strategies. You need only consider the most successful and recognized companies to see how important data is to the innovators in the enterprise market. IT leaders have been turning successful pilot projects into production systems that add value and benefit their organizations. "Over the past few years we have convinced enterprises that capturing data and making use of that data is imperative to competitiveness," Sam Charrington, founder and principal analyst at CloudPulse Strategies told InformationWeek in an interview. "They've started to build out infrastructure to help them do that including Hadoop and Spark and other technologies."