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Making Data Work in the Real World: Theme of the Week at Strata 2011
We’ve been streaming live from the 2011 Strata Conference all week, and there were certainly a lot of things going on these past two days. The first highlight to discuss is the Strata Real World Applications Panel which included of 4 industry experts: Kenneth Cukier, Adam Hurwitz, Jinesh Varia and Mario Veiga Pereira. Each of ...
OpenStack Steady on Update Releases, Bexar Widens the Cloud
Rackspace pushed out a Bexar code release for OpenStack Compute and OpenStack Storage today. The update comes with new features and a dedicated documentation site, preempting the launch of the next two code releases this Cactus and Diablo. The Bexar release of OpenStack Compute introduces new enterprise features that streamline the installation process, allow users ...
Two Petes Talk Data Markets at O’Reilly Strata Conference 2011
Stratus Security’s Pete Soderling and BuzzData’s Pete Forde attended at the Strata Conference yesterday and held a session on the “Building and Pricing the Data Marketplace”. Their point was that there’s room for change when it comes to data marketplaces. “But what is data, and why should we care? High value top-down data sets like ...
Our Big Data is the Next Industrial Revolution: Strata Keynote Highlights, Day 2
The Strata Conference really kicked into high gear yesterday, and the second day of the sold-out event featured multiple speakers, kicking-off with Conference co-chair Edd Dumbill’s opening introductions. He discussed William Smith‘s map of geological strata in the British Isles and the progress of modernization, which he used to illustrate the world of data. SiliconANGLE ...
Digg Execs Strike Gold as Revision3 Turns Profits
Revision3, a side project of Digg CEO Matt Williams, reached profitability not too long ago, ushered in by its immense growth figures. Revision3 experienced 80 percent year-over-year revenue growth and is the top independent video channel on Roku, but Digg.com itself is not doing that well at all. All Things D reports: “In the Laporte ...
Excessive Yahoo Data Usage on Windows Phone 7 – Who’s to Blame?
Yahoo! Mail was found out yesterday, having been revealed as the culprit causing excessive data usage on Windows Phone 7 devices. But pointing a finger at the core of this issue is a bit trickier than that. Windows Phone 7 communicates to IMAP mail servers, including Yahoo’s, via the IMAP protocol, but while WP7’s approach ...
Pervasive Software Talks Hadoop, Launches DataRush 5.0
Cloud innovator Pervasive Software, which is here at the O’Reilly Strata ‘Making Data Work’ Conference with us this week, is taking the opportunity to discuss and demonstrate some open cloud solutions for businesses. Director of Product Management Davin Potts is presenting “Supercharge Development and Performance of Hadoop Applications.” He will discuss Pervasive’s MapReduce product, as ...
Scaling the Cloud: Clustrix Takes on Strata
CDS maker Clustrix is with us at the O’Reilly Strata Conference today, where it will be demonstrating its ultra-scalable Clustrix Series 4000 appliances. The company earlier announced its accelerating global growth, and this time it’s providing an example of just how cloud scalability helps businesses to manage their rapidly increasing data. Clustrix is a company ...
Egypt Internet Connection Restored. What Lies Ahead for Egypt?
It’s been a rough couple of weeks in Egypt politics, with a nation at unrest, a world wondering at their government’s shut-off communication tactics, and a revolution that’s clearly under way. We’ve been covering the story from early on, particularly from the web access perspective, discussing the ramifications of an entire people looking for ways ...
Quepasa Acquires XtFt Games, Takes Social Games to Latin America
Quepasa Corporation (Quepasa.com), which operates the largest Latino social networks is expanding its reach to Latin America with the acquisition of XtFt Games, owner of Brazilian social game development studio TechFront. XtFt will be acquired for $3.7 million in Quepasa common stocks. “The agreement to acquire XtFt follows Quepasa’s recently announced partnership with eGames to ...