12. Big Big Data: In contrast to the last few years, bringing up Big Data to the LTNY crowd (vendors, firms, consultants, etc.) did not invoke blank stares or disinterested yawns. Folks were willing and able to talk Big Data shop—mostly about ongoing analytics initiatives (primarily around legal spending and pricing) and e-discovery vendor-driven data mining and enterprise search efforts. Of the 10 or so Big Data technology/service vendors we spotted, many of them are also adding information governance ...
