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How Accumulo Safeguards Your Civil Liberties
It’s been widely reported that the NSA is in the midst of collecting huge volumes of call metadata from Verizon associated with all domestic and international calls made by the company’s customers for three months starting in mid-April (see the court order here.) Less attention has been paid to what exactly the government does with ...
With Data Visualization, There Are No More Excuses
Seth Godin says we are all artists. If you want to make a difference in this world and build a kick-ass career, don’t wait for permission. Don’t wait for someone to pick you. If you have an idea, run with it. I think Godin is right on the mark. The era of following the rules ...
Analysis: Vertica Momentum A Bright Spot for HP
When a hot tech start-up gets acquired by a mega-vendor, there are a number of natural evolutions that occur. Among them is the inevitable departure of some of the company’s founding members and other top talent. I say inevitable because the mindset required to get a start-up off the ground and humming is often very ...
Why Nate Silver’s Critics Are Wrong and Lessons for the Enterprise
Former Republican congressman-turned-TV pundit Joe Scarborough doesn’t buy Nate Silver’s numbers. For Scarborough, they just don’t add up. Speaking on Morning Joe on Oct. 29, when Silver’s FiveThirtyEight blog put Obama’s chances at reelection somewhere around 75%, Scarborough declared: “Both sides understand [the presidential election] is close, it could go either way, and anybody that ...
Big Data: Polluter or Environmentalist?
Here’s what we know. Data volumes are growing exponentially – a.k.a. Big Data. And we need hardware – lots of hardware – to store it, crunch it and deliver all that data to hungry end-users – both business users and consumers. The problem, as pointed out in a New York Times piece published over the ...
VMware Launches Industry Forum to Help Enterprises Transition to the Cloud
VMware this week announced the formation of a new industry group that brings together a number of blue-chip services firms that will serve as a resource for large enterprises transitioning to the cloud. Called Cloud Ops Forum, the group includes EMC Global Services, Capgemini, Deloitte, Infosys and CSC. According to VMware, the group’s mission includes ...
Short of Staff, Financial Traders Turns to Analytic Software and Services
The financial crisis of 2008 and following recession resulted in significant job losses across industries, and the financial services industry itself was no exception. Call it a self-inflicted wound if you must, but the reality is job losses in capital markets has been severe and firms are being forced to do more with fewer workers. ...
Accumulo: Why The World Needs Another NoSQL Database
If you’ve been unable to keep up with all the competing NoSQL databases that have hit the market over the last several years, you’re not alone. To name just a few, there’s HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB, Riak, CouchDB, Redis, and Neo4J. To that list you can add Accumulo, an open source database originally developed at the ...
Alteryx Merges Big Data Integration and AppDev in Single Platform
George Mathew knows a thing or two about building analytic applications aimed at line-of-business users. Until last year he was a top executive inside SAP’s Business Objects division. One of his jobs at SAP was to guide the company’s business intelligence strategy as emerging technologies like Hadoop, in-memory computing and other innovative approaches to data ...
LucidWorks Changes Name, But Remains Focused on Data-Centric Applications
LucidWorks recently changed its name (from Lucid Imagination), but the Redwood City, Calif.-based company remains laser focused on delivering powerful data-centric application development platforms. In fact, the company streamlined its product offerings, eliminating multiple community and enterprise editions to focus on just two core products: LucidWorks Search and LucidWorks Big Data. Both the name and ...