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Big Political Data Helps Attract Latino Voters
Latino voters will be crucial in 2012 political campaigns and Presidential hopefuls are taking special steps to win this group’s support. But, how will candidates know how to reach the Latino audience and measure the effectiveness of their efforts? Luminar, according to its press release, defines itself as “the first “big data” analytics and modeling ...
Cloud Foundry Panel Says Software Defined and Automated Data Centers Will “Rock the Economic House” [VIDEO]
John Furrier continues SiliconANGLE’s exclusive VMworld coverage with a panel on Cloud Foundry. James Watters, VMware Director of Cloud Foundry and Lucas Carlson, Appfog CEO, discuss their experiences and perspectives on how the DevOps world changed with the changing demand of cloud, big data’s impact on the cloud, top uses cases for PaaS clouds, whether ...
VMware Backup and Recovery Trends, VMworld 2012 Spotlight Segment
Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman of Wikibon.org continue their VMworld 2012 coverage in this spotlight segment on backup and recovery for VMware customers and practitioners. Vellante and Miniman high-level overview examines industry trends concerning virtualization, the enduring utility of tape, backup stress and conclude with eight customer imperatives for backup and recovery. Vellante and Miniman ...
VMware CIO Says Company Will Prioritize Rapid Release Cycle, Software Defined Data Center Transition and User Experience for the Next Year
In their continuing and exclusive coverage of VMWorld 2012, John Furrier and Dave Vellante spoke with Mark Egan, VMware Chief Information officer. The panelists discuss organizational challenges to implementing IT as a service, Cloud Foundry usage, the increasing need for multi-vendors and VMware’s priorities over the next twelve months. Vellante asks what IT transformation, particularly ...
Pat Gelsinger’s Big Vision for VMware’s Next Year
In their ongoing and exclusive coverage of VMworld 2012, John Furrier and Dave Vellante spoke with new VMware CEO and keynote speaker, Pat Gelsinger. The newly appointed head (officially presiding September 1st) shares keys to innovation and disruption in the field as well as his thoughts on partnering with Paul Maritz, data infrastructure as it ...
“Our Biggest Competition is the Status Quo” says Fusion-IO CEO, David Flynn [VIDEO]
In their ongoing coverage of VMworld, John Furrier and Dave Vellante spoke with David Flynn, CEO of Fusion-IO. In its first year as a public company, Fusion-IO boasts an impressive earning’s report, 82% growth and acquisition of IO Turbine. In this conversation, Flynn discusses Fusion-IOs success and future innovations, the advantages of Fusion-IO architecture, Flash ...
Rise of the New Chief Marketing Technology Officer [Infographic]
According to John Koetsier’s recent VentureBeat article, the big data explosion has made Chief Marketing Technology Officers (CMTOs) hot commodities. Sophisticated analysis of large amounts of data has provided unprecedented access to market and customer data around the world and in real-time. As a result, Chief Marketing Officers that once relied on subjective and people focused research, ...
Data Art vs. Visualization? The Distinction is Unproductive, says Artist Jer Thorp
Where does data visualization begin and data art end? Jer Thorp, resident Data Artist at the New York Times (a position he created for himself), believes the distinction is unproductive. Combining his background in genetics with his digital art practice, his award-winning, internationally exhibited works are not easily categorized. In this interview we discussed the ...
The Next Great Tech Entrepreneurs Will Live By The Cheetah Code, New Film On African Innovation
Editor’s Note: Portions of this article have been excerpted from The Cheetah Code Press Release and writings by Jon Gosier. Jon Gosier, founder of MetaLayer (audience choice winner of Strata’s 2012 startup showcase), is combining his experience at film school and Lionsgate with his passion for African entrepreneurship to create The Cheetah Code, a film ...
Storing Data as DNA, Harvard Researchers Say Test Tubes Can Contain “the whole Internet”
Test tube data. It may sound strange, now, but genomics researcher and serial entrepreneur, George Church, told the Wall Street Journal encoding data in DNA “could be the wave of the future” for archives. Church was the senior researcher of a Harvard experiment to encode his forthcoming book, Regenesis, in DNA. According to Kyle Alspach, ...