Canthe Climate Corporation Help Farmers Survive Global Warming?	IT Operations Analytics explained by customers and experts, etc	Statistics Done Wrong
The Climate Corporation sells weather insurance, but it is an insurance company the way Google is an encyclopedia company. Company scientists process about fifty terabytes of weather information every day.	I attended good sessions this week at IOD to learn how customers like Consolidated Communications and Barclay's are applying new analytics capabilities in their IT operations environments. The benefits they have realized translate to real ROI.	If you’re a practicing scientist, you probably use statistics to analyze your data. From basic t tests and standard error calculations to Cox proportional hazards models and geospatial kriging systems, we rely on statistics to give answers to scientific problems.
IBM big data portfolio adds operational pieces While the high-profile Watson cognitive system and Smarter Cities projects help IBM showcase new styles of big data analytics, the company is also rolling out low-profile big data portfolio enhancements to better enable use of new data technologies in the enterprise. Some of these enhancements help data professionals protect the security of their big data assets.	Hadoop role eyed in mainframe modernization -- and migration Hadoop clusters threaten the data warehousing status quo. Signs show that they may also bring a new twist to mainframe modernization and migration.