What’s the Biggest Big Data Challenge?

Doug Laney is a research VP at Gartner Research covering business analytics, big data use cases, “infonomics,” and other data-governance-related issues. He has also led a number of international analytics and information-management-related projects. Before joining Gartner, he launched the Meta Group's Enterprise Analytics Strategies research and advisory service and established and co-led the Deloitte Analytics Institute. He recently talked with +Information Management ’s editorial director John McCormick about one of the biggest big data challenges – the variety of data. What you can find here is an edited transcript of their conversation.