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MITIQ 2013: Appointing a CDO Can Be a Double-Edged Sword
Wikibon co-founder Dave Vellante and Paul Gillin, the former editor-in-chief of Computerworld, kicked off the second day of this week’s MIT Information Quality conference with an in-depth discussion about the pros and cons of appointing a chief data officer. After recapping on their collaborations and the state of the publishing industry, Dave and Gillin address ...
SnapLogic Connects Tableau to the Big Data Universe
SnapLogic has announced the availability of a pre-packaged Snap for Tableau’s newly launched data visualization service. The San Mateo-based cloud integration specialist says that its latest connector supports over 160 data sources, including on-premise apps, popular cloud solutions such as Salesforce and ServiceNow, and major social networking sites. SnapLogic touts that the connector enables users ...
Weekly Big Data Review: Aysadi Gets a Boost from GE, Cloudera Nabs Myrrix
This week Ayasdi received funding from GE and Cloudera snatched up a machine learning startup called Myrrix. In addition, Syncsort released the results of an extensive study on Hadoop adoption in Europe. Ayasdi is a Palo Alto-based firm that specializes in Big Data automation. Its Insight Discovery Platform is based on software that has been ...
Weekly Cloud Review: Kim Dotcom, Google Stick it to the NSA
This week Mega announced plans for a spy-proof messaging service, Google insiders revealed that the company is experimenting with new ways to encrypt files stored in Drive, and Telligent bought Zimbra from VMware. In other news, a group of Cisco partners released a study revealing that a sizable portion of corporate end-users are oblivious to ...
Dell PR Boss Jumps Ship Ahead of Buyout Vote
Dell’s future is anything but certain. A leaked internal email sent by chief marketing officer Karen Quintos revealed that Kelly McGinnis, the company’s head of global communications, resigned shortly before the scheduled investor vote on Michael Dell’s $24.4 billion buyout offer. The vote was originally due to take place today, but got pushed back to ...
MITIQ 2013 Day 1 Wrap-up: Reliable Data Equals Business Value
TheCube hosts Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly wrapped up the first day of this week’s MIT Information Quality conference with an in-depth discussion about data quality and the evolving role of the CDO. Dave points out that information security and data quality, two of the newest trends in the Big Data space, are among the ...
40% of End-Users Haven’t Heard of Virtualization
Virtualization may have revolutionized IT, but it won’t be winning popularity contests anytime soon. A new study commissioned by a group of Cisco mConcierge partners found that 40 percent of workers aren’t even familiar with the term – and that’s including IT personnel. About 53 percent of non-IT workers have never heard about the technology, ...
Microsoft’s TechNet Shutdown Hints to Inevitable Cloud Transition : CIOs Should Take Note
Earlier this month we reported that Microsoft plans to retire TechNet Subscriptions, a premium service that includes access to software, documentation, and other resources that can help IT practitioners work more productively. Scott Lowe, the founder of The 1610 Group, perceives the move as a harbinger of things to come. In the past, Microsoft depended ...
Seeking the Edge on Machine Learning, Cloudera Acquires Myrrix
Cloudera is bolstering its analytics lineup with the acquisition of Myrrix, a London-based startup that offers a “complete, real-time, scalable clustering and recommender system.” The solution is built on top of the Apache Mahout machine learning project, which in turn is based on founder Sean Owen’s open source Taste engine. Owen announced the buyout in ...
The Secret Ingredient to Startup Success? Craziness
Michael Wolfe, a serial entrepreneur who currently serves as the CEO of user relationship management firm Pipewise, raised a very good point on Quora. He theorized that “it is possible to create a good startup with a good idea, but great startups are often the result of ideas that would have seemed ridiculous if you ...