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Vertica Analytics Platform Aids In Presenting Actionable Intelligence | #HPBigData2013
At this year’s HP Big Data Conference in Boston, hosts of theCUBE Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly sat down with Brian Weiss to discuss his company’s use of the Vertica Analytics Platform and the future of Big Data across all enterprises. Weiss, the vice president of Marketing for Autonomy, discussed how his company is advancing ...
The History and Future of Data Architecture Models #HPBigData2013
Updated with full video – see below. SiliconANGLE’s TheCUBE, broadcasting live from the HP Big Data Conference in Boston welcomed Brian Dougherty to discuss the future of data warehouse architecture. Dave Vellante of Wikibon and founder of SiliconANGLE, John Furrier, spoke with Dougherty just as the keynote presentation by Major League Baseball player Billy Bean ...
Spil Games Director of Analytics Discusses Monetization of Big Data #HPBigData2013
Updated with full video – see below. Today at the HP Vertica Big Data Conference in Boston, Rob Winters, Director of Reporting and Analytics for Spil Games, sat down with Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and founder of SiliconANGLE John Furrier on TheCUBE. Winters discussed how the last year and a half has been challenging as his ...
Viewing The World Through A PRISM – Part II
In the first part of this series, we offered a recap of what we knew of the NSA surveillance program, PRISM. The intent of this second in the series was to explore how and if large-scale intelligence gathering schemes could or should be dismantled. Rounding out the article will be an exploration of some of ...
Smartphones Simplifying Citizen Scientist Participation
I’m certain you’ve heard it bandied about over the previous few years that even the most basic cell phone possesses more computing power than Apollo 11’s onboard computer. And if we are using capability greater than what was needed to direct astronauts on the longest road trip in history for Facebook check-ins and launching Angry ...
Viewing The World Through A PRISM
The Edward Snowden saga has been playing out dramatically across the front pages of newspapers and nightly news worldwide. And the effects of his very public revelation of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) surveillance program, PRISM, still have not been fully realized. However, enough time has passed since he first sat down with Glenn Greenwald ...
What The DELL Is Going On In Austin?
DELL computer, since 1997, has consistently ranked as one of the top three PC companies, in terms of market share. Unfortunately for the PC market, sales have steadily been declining in favor of more mobile platforms, such as smartphones and tablets. So what is a company whose bread and butter has been in the PC ...
Black Hat USA 2013 Preview Round-Up
Starting this Saturday, Black Hat USA 2013 will be convening at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. Over the last week, SiliconANGLE has been previewing just a handful of the sessions meant to deal with issues pertaining to Big Data and data storage and management. Here we provide a recap of just some of the week’s ...
How The Financial Sector Will Benefit From Big Data: An MIT CDOIQ Symposium Round-Up #MITIQ
In the week leading up to this year’s MIT Chief Data Officer Information Quality Symposium, SiliconANGLE presented a series previewing the event, themed ‘Big Data Demands Good Data’. Our series focused on presenting a synopsis of some of the important topics scheduled to be covered in Cambridge the following week. While prior to the event ...
Vulnerability Statistics Suck
Starting this Saturday, Black Hat USA 2013 will be convening at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. In this series, intended to preview many of the talks and presentations scheduled for the event, SiliconANGLE will focus on the exploitative vulnerabilities associated with big data and how those vulnerabilities can be limited. Today’s article will focus on ...