Nathan Marz is a lead engineer at Twitter. He came over to Twitter from Backtype, a real-time social analytics company that Twitter acquired last year. Marz started working on Storm, an open source real-time computation system, at Backtype and continues to work on it for Twitter. Today at Strata Marz appeared on theCube and explained ...

Bill Schmarzo, CTO of EMC’s EIM Services, is called the “Dean of Big Data,” mostly because of his role in EMC’s data science training courses. Today at Strata Conference Schmarzo appeared on theCube with hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante to talk about how data science is transforming business, and talked in particular about how ...

Enterprise social network company Yammer announced today another round of funding: a whopping $85 million round led by DFJ Growth. That’s more than all of Yammer’s previous rounds combined. This follows Yammer’s fourth round of funding last September and brings its total funding to $142 million. It may sound like a lot, but remember that ...

Last month I told you about The Node Firm, a new consulting firm dedicated to the open source server side JavaScript platform called Node.js. The Node Firm is a “bite sized” consulting company, focused on very short engagements of one day or less. The team is focused only on high level Node.js consulting – not ...

I’ve mentioned before that Redis, a NoSQL in-memory datastore often used for caching, is red hot and receiving high praise from developers. But how well does it really stand up to the competition? Ichi, a developer for Kick News with a background in IT engineering, did some informal testing of how Dusan Majkic’s Windows port ...

Do companies like to keep their IT staff stupid? In a recent article for Software Quality Connection Lisa Vaas describes IT managers who oppose providing training for their employees as “pro-stupid.” But according to Vaas, more managers are waking up to the problem. For example, J. Wolfgang Goerlich, a network operations manager at a financial ...

Disclosure: Dell sponsors DevOpsAngle The newly formed Dell Software Group announced its first acquisition today: AppAssure, a vendor of backup and replication software. Terms of the deal were not announced. Dell formed the Software Group earlier this month to bring its software assets under one umbrella. According to Dell’s announcement, “The computer maker recently hired ...

Two years ago The CLP Group, one of the largest electric companies in the Asia Pacific region, launched an internal innovation management program called Inno8, based on BrightIdea’s Innovation Suite software. Employees could submit ideas, comment ideas and perhaps most importantly, rate each others ideas. The project started in the IT department, and the company ...

Each week the ServicesAngle editorial team has a conference call to discuss the week’s news and trends. Sometimes we just do voice calls, other times we do videoconferencing. Sometimes we bring other people into the conversations. Wikibon and SiliconAngle are all about collaboration and transparency, so, we’ve decided to start sharing these conversations. This week ...

Geoloqi has been around as a multipurpose geolocation app for iPhone and Android since 2010, and its API has been available since last summer. But today the Portland, OR startup is releasing its real product: the Geoloqi SDK for iPhone and Android, which enterprises and developers can license to build white label location based mobile ...