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

人们对大数据和分析产生了极大的兴趣。总部位于安大略并在纳斯达克交易所公开上市的Sphere 3D是一家加拿大公司，旨在研究大数据和分析如何积极影响其利润。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或工作站移动到内部和/或云的虚拟环境。Sphere 3D寻求在当前和未来的大数据可用性和分析软件市场增长的业务背景下对其产品和服务进行创新。为此，2014年，它收购了Overland Storage，一家统一数据管理和数据保护解决方案提供商。该项目的目的是与Sphere 3D合作进行研究，从而为客户提供创新的大数据和业务分析解决方案。 考虑到Sphere 3D为客户存储的大部分数据都是非结构化的，甚至是未索引的格式，并且可能分布在其整个数据基础设施中，因此仅为其客户准备数据进行分析就代表着一个重要的机会。约克大学的亨利金教授和他的研究团队提议在NSERC Engage资助下与Sphere 3D合作，将上下文感知本体应用于收集、联合和准备数据以供Sphere 3D客户进行业务分析的挑战。 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推动力。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极为重要。通过投资商业分析领域，加拿大将发展其能力，从而提高竞争力和创新能力，该项目旨在为Sphere 3D尽自己的一份力量，从而最终增加加拿大居民在国内和国际上的就业机会。

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.