Enabling data management for big data business analytics for Sphere3D using context-aware ontologies

人们对大数据和分析有着极大的兴趣。Sphere3D总部设在安大略省，在纳斯达克交易所上市，是一家加拿大公司，希望研究大数据和分析如何对其利润产生积极影响。其核心产品是Glassware 2.0平台，该平台提供应用程序虚拟化，并支持将应用程序从物理PC或工作站移动到本地和/或云中的虚拟环境。Sphere3D寻求在大数据可用性和分析软件市场增长的当前和未来业务环境中创新其产品和服务。为此，它在2014年收购了统一数据管理和数据保护解决方案提供商Overland Storage。该项目的目标是与Sphere3D合作进行研究，从而为客户提供创新的大数据和商业分析解决方案。 考虑到Sphere3D为其客户存储的许多数据都是非结构化甚至无索引的格式，而且可能分散在其整个数据基础设施中，因此仅仅是为客户的分析准备数据就是一个重要的机会。亨利·金教授和他在约克大学的研究团队提议与Sphere3D合作，在NSERC Engage拨款下，将情境感知本体应用于收集、联合和准备Sphere3D客户进行商业分析的数据这一挑战。 从长远来看，加拿大公司在商业分析方面的成功投资将是竞争优势的重要驱动力。根据波特的国家优势钻石，一个国家的竞争力有几个决定因素可以随着时间的推移而形成。考察人力、物力、知识和资本资源的要素条件是极其重要的。通过在商业分析领域的投资，加拿大将发展其能力，从而提高竞争力和创新能力，该项目寻求为Sphere3D尽自己的一份力，从而最终增加国内和国际上加拿大居民的就业。

There has been tremendous interest in Big Data and analytics. Sphere3D, headquartered in Ontario and publicly listed on the NASDAQ Exchange, is a Canadian company looking to research how Big Data and analytics can positively affect its bottom line. Its keystone offering is the Glassware 2.0 platform, which delivers virtualization of applications and enables movement of applications from a physical PC or workstation to a virtual environment on premises and/or from the cloud. Sphere3D seeks to innovate upon its products and services offerings in the current and future business context of Big Data availability, and growth in the analytics software market. To that end, in 2014, it acquired Overland Storage, a provider of unified data management and data protection solutions. The aim of this project is to collaborate with Sphere3D on research that can lead to innovative Big Data and business analytics solutions that it can offer its clients. Given that much of the data that Sphere3D stores for its clients are in unstructured or even unindexed formats, and may be spread throughout its data infrastructure, just preparing data for analytics by its clients represents a significant opportunity. Prof. Henry Kim and his research team at York University are proposing to work with Sphere3D under the NSERC Engage grant to apply context-aware ontologies to the challenge of collecting, federating, and preparing data for business analytics by Sphere3D's clients. In the long run, successful investments in business analytics by Canadian firms will be an important driver of competitive advantage. According to Porter's Diamond of National Advantage, there are several determinants of a nation's competitiveness that can be shaped over time. Factor conditions that examine human, material, knowledge, and capital resources are extremely important. By investing in the field of business analytics, Canada will be developing its capabilities which will lead to increased competitiveness and innovation, and this project seeks to do its part for Sphere3D so that in addition it will ultimately lead to increased employment for resident Canadians domestically and internationally.