IBM is taking Big Data seriously and is working to help IT workers the world over to handle the challenges that Big Data represents.
As part of its initiative to tackle Big Data, IBM launched a global skills initiative to educate clients, business partners, and college students how to use IBM business analytics and information management software, and many of the underlying technologies of the Watson computing system to grab information from new sources and use it to create business opportunities.
The new IBM Big Data skills initiative, launched March 10, provides IT professionals no-charge access to 1,200 on-site skills boot camps at client, partner and university locations worldwide, at 38 IBM Innovation Centres, and online at DB2University.com.
In an interview with eWEEK, Rod Smith, IBM’s vice president of emerging internet technologies, said making sense of Big Data requires a new set of skills that many IT professionals do not possess today. The skills boot camps will provide education to these communities on topics such as Big Data, analytics, data management and open source technologies including Hadoop and Eclipse tools.
The new initiative comes on the heels of IBM’s Watson Jeopardy! challenge where the system demonstrated how it analysed natural human language in under three seconds to defeat two champions using commercially available technologies from IBM.
IBM maintains that businesses today are looking for disruptive technologies like Watson to help them capitalise on the growing volume, variety and velocity of information k.nown as “Big Data.” This includes the massive amount of public information available on the Web, information generated by sensors, mobile devices, social networks, cloud computing, and public sources of information that are not integrated into a company’s existing information management platforms.
IBM said IT professionals and students will get hands on training to learn:
“We’re rolling out these boot camps so people can get prepared as Big Data comes down the line,” Smith said.
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