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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …