Alan McStravick


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How Healthcare 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. Today we are re-visiting the ...

The Rise of the Machines: It’s Not All Bad

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. In an article for this ...

Big Blue Bets Big On Data Management

Last month IBM hosted the EDGE 2013 conference in Las Vegas. Co-founder of SiliconANGLE, John Furrier and Dave Vellante of Wikibon sat down for a candid conversation with Ambuj Goyal, general manager of storage and networking for IBM. The three discussed the history of storage, its current iteration within a data management architecture and the ...

Black Clouds On The Computing Horizon

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 we are looking at ...

Security Vulnerabilities In e-Commerce

In just one week, 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, we will delve ...

The Role Of The CDO In The Governmental Structure #MITIQ

SiliconANGLEs theCUBE welcomed Micheline Casey, the CDO for the Federal Reserve as a special and previously unscheduled guest this afternoon. Dave Vellante of Wikibon engaged Casey in a conversation that covered her role as the first CDO for the state of Colorado, how she felt the role of CDO could be adopted by both private ...

Healthcare In The Age Of Analytics #MITIQ

Joining Paul Gillen and Dave Vellante on SiliconANGLEs theCUBE this afternoon was Anthony Donofrio, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice-President with Truven Healthcare Analytics. He discussed how Truven’s Information as a Service (IaaS) and software suites were designed to service each of the core constituencies associated with the healthcare industry. Truven delivers analytic databases and ...

Endgame Gets Piggish With Malware Data Samples At Black Hat

In just over a week, 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, we are ...

The Data Revolution In Health IT #MITIQ

In what may have been the most interesting and eye-opening interview on SiliconANGLEs theCUBE, broadcasting this week from the MIT Chief Development Officer Information Quality Symposium in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and Social Media Strategist and Author Paul Gillen welcomed Dr. Farzad Mosthashari. Mostashari is the National Coordinator for Healthcare Transformation with the Centers ...

Faster Analytics and Improved Information Quality With Hadoop #MITIQ

Scott Howser, vice president of marketing for Hadapt, joined Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly of Wikibon on theCUBE this afternoon, broadcast live from the MIT Chief Development Officer Information Quality Symposium. Before discussing the Hadoop ecosystem that is being widely adopted, Howser reflected on the early days of Hadoop and the authentication challenges which themselves ...