Kristen Nicole

Named by Forbes as a top influencer in Big Data, Kristen Nicole is currently a Senior Editor at SiliconANGLE.com. She got her start with 606tech, a Chicago blog she dedicated to the social media space, going on to become the lead writer and Field Editor at Mashable. Kristen Nicole has also contributed to other publications, from TIME Techland to Forbes. Her work has been syndicated across a number of media outlets, including The New York Times, and MSNBC. Kristen Nicole published her first book, The Twitter Survival Guide, and is currently completing her second book on predictive analytics.

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‘AI doesn’t run on software’: Michael Dell jockeys for an infrastructure takeover

The curious transformation of Dell Technologies Inc. began with a decision to go private, scaling down to become a more agile player in the cloud computing era. Yet the subsequent merger with EMC Corp.’s federation of storage and virtualization products meant that Dell was once again a massive company subject to slowed innovation, with the ...
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Reinventing the city bus with self-driving pods and AI

Can humans be transported around a city as efficiently as data is moved around a computing network? One pioneering startup thinks so, engineering an intelligent bus line that works similarly to packet switching on the internet. “We divided the bus in sections, so you have six modules that coupled together are the same length and ...

Hortonworks bets on AI, automation in GDPR-ready services

With just five weeks until full enforcement, the pending laws of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation may have been the focus for the keynote at DataWorks Summit in Berlin, but the broader story of data governance spotlights the challenges facing event host Hortonworks Inc. as it evolves big data business beyond Apache Hadoop’s ...

Rethinking DevOps for a more programmable network

Where the term DevOps once represented the whole of software creation and deployment within business operations, the expansive realm of cloud computing is spurring hardwired networks to become more programmable. To help businesses build teams capable of addressing the matters of migrating, monitoring and modifying software applications in the cloud, one expert suggests a shift ...
BIG DATA SPECIAL REPORT

Big data’s revival is here, domain expertise is returning, say analysts

The term “big data” may have lost favor in recent years, but its byproducts have quietly been cultivating a revival. Through mainstream fascination (and fear) of machine intelligence, that swamp of stockpiled data is finally finding its footing in the business world. Now, eight years after SiliconANGLE’s first coverage of a dedicated big-data event, the ...

Stanford showcases women in data science to help close gender gap at WiDS 2018

Careers in technology fields can offer financial freedom to women around the world, but gender inequality still plagues the top tech companies and education systems worldwide. Can academia help close the gender gap from Silicon Valley to Shenzhen? Looking to answer these questions and more, SiliconANGLE is at the Global Women in Data Science Conference at Stanford ...

Where does high finance meet blockchain tech? In the Bahamas, for Polycon 2018

How is blockchain technology enabling the tokenization of high finance for cryptocurrency markets, and what are the economic and cultural impacts of such decentralized transactions? Looking to answer these and other questions, SiliconANGLE is at the inaugural Polycon18 in the Bahamas, an intimate conference claiming to be the world’s first crypto event dedicated to security ...
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If data defines society, how should blockchain redefine data?

From voting data to land ownership, the manner in which records are kept affects the whole of society. In today’s ad-driven economy, much of that data is held in corporate servers, and society is questioning the overseers. Look no further than the recent Equifax breach for justification of societal concern. Such intrusions on centralized databases ...

Fashion-tech love story still lost in translation

When fashion met tech, it wasn’t love at first sight. The marriage of these two industries has been fraught with mixed signals and gimmicks, redefining the fashion-tech relationship at every turn. It’s the same love story many industries are trying to narrate alongside emerging tech, as sensors and computers get smaller, faster and more powerful. ...

Splunk’s baked-in machine learning apps must stay simplified in complex multiclouds

New baked-in machine learning tools take Splunk Inc.’s platform to the next level of big data management, but how can the company maintain the simplicity of its on-premises solutions in an increasingly popular multicloud world? Where many trade show keynote speeches garner obligatory “golf course claps,” the crowd at this week’s Splunk.conf event reacted to ...