Robots, visualizations and wine – the combination gives it the feel of an O’Reilly Makers Faire.  It was actually the Strata Conferece’s Mini Maker Faire, which featured all sorts of Arduino inspired and sensor driven treats. Services Angle Services providers will increasingly start to use physical objects with sensors that use APIs to connect into ...

I walked the convention center floor at the Strata Conference today and asked people: “What is Big Data?” It’s such a broad term. The people I interviewed certainly made that point. Services Angle I ask the question as still most people do not know what big data is and Hadoop is even more of a ...

In a discussion yesterday with EMC Data Scientsit Dr. Pedro DeSouza, the conversation turned to the immaturity of the Hadoop ecosystem Today, the ecosystem grew a bit more as VMware announced Spring Hadoop here at the Strata Conference in Santa Clara. VMware will make the Spring framework comptable with Apache Hadoop.Costin Leau wrote on the ...

The shift to smartphones and tablets makes it nearly impossible t0 secure on a per device basis. Employees may use 40 different services. How do you protect yourself in that kind of world? Wikibon’s  Dave Vellante: Security is rapidly becoming a ‘do-over’ because of the cloud. For years we’ve spent far too much money on protecting ...

The Guardian staff is here for the Strata conference. For the event, Editor Simon Rogers analyzed the data from the more than 2,000 developers attending to see where they came from, what they want to talk about and how much data they process. Here’s what he found: Developers traveled an average of 2,346 miles to ...

Michael Dell took the stage today at a Dell event with a focus on the demands that come with companies now reaching a maturing stage with its extensive virtualized infrastructure and the continued drive to use Web and cloud services. At the center of the news is Dell’s second generation of embedded management technology with a ...

The Google blog has a post about what search data say about tonight’s Academy Awards. IBM has its Oscar Senti-meter, a tool it developed with the L.A. Times and the University of Southern California Annenberg Innovation Lab.  Yahoo is predicting a winner based upon the bets people are making. Google Google says its predictions are based ...

Here’s the quote of the day from Oracle President Mark Hurd: Taleo is completely additive to Oracle Fusion HCM. Additive? So Taleo will improve the flavor of Oracle Fusion? Here’s another one from Hurd: Oracle is the leader in the enterprise cloud. So what do these two comments from Hurd say about the Taleo acquisition? Nothing. ...

I can’t get into Pinterest. It’s fun and all. But I need ways to do my work better, get my posts done and make sure I am not forgetting anything. But I want to have fun too. But how do you have fun with a to do app and make it something you use every ...

Eucalyptus Systems CEO Mårten Mickos made a bet with his engineering team. Beat the deadline for the next release and he’d let them shave his head, complete with the Eucalyptus logo. The engineering team won. And Marten got a shave with a nice big “Eucalyptus 3,” logo on the side and back of his head. ...