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Businesses draft women to fill tech skills shortage, says Anita Borg Institute’s Telle Whitney
The tech industry’s skills shortage is sending companies to organizations such as the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology in search of ways to find and foster talent. Over the years, the organization has grown into a major force for women in tech, and more and more businesses are taking notice. “What’s been really ...
The magic of big data shamans is made plain with Paxata GUI
Why is there so much data and so many tools to analyze it, yet so little resultant business value? Perhaps because tools are usually in the hands of data experts, while line-of-business laymen might accomplish more with them. “We’ve separated the people who had the tools from the people who knew what they wanted to ...
Anita Borg’s new president bumps cross-curricular tech to head of the class
It may come as a surprise that Brenda Darden Wilkerson (pictured), the new president and chief executive officer of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, wound up in tech by accident. But, according to Wilkerson, this is a common scenario for women who work in computing. For years, she’s worked to change that through ...
AI’s human element dissected at Grace Hopper women in tech event
The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is underway in Orlando, Florida. Besides gender representation in tech, a big topic of discussion is how to drive new artificial intelligence technology across disciplines. “We have these women that are talking about these cool products that they’re making, and different pathways into artificial intelligence and machine ...
What to do when DevOps puts the app cart before the infra horse
Developer operations allow businesses to deploy new software applications faster than ever, which is great — except when the new apps and underlying compute infrastructure fight like rabid dogs. “If you’re developing these applications with DevOps on the front end, and you’re dropping new versions of them in hours rather than quarters, the infrastructure on the ...
Tiny databases and high-speed analytics amp up the IoT edge
“Internet of things” edge devices are playing an increasingly important role in big data analytics. Should internet of things data go back to a centralized cloud for analysis, or should computing power go to the edge? And will the data still be relevant once the process is complete? “You don’t want to be acting on ...
Big Data Week insights: Putting heads and tech together to crush complexity
Last week, theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, held its premier yearly event, BigData NYC, in conjunction with the Strata Data Conference. Our analysts dug out the very latest big data developments in conversations with innovators, practitioners and vendors. Simultaneously, we hit the ground in Washington, D.C. for Splunk .conf2017. Altogether, it was a bustling week ...
These noble nerds fight human trafficking with data, blockchain analytics
Law enforcement agencies across the globe concur that human trafficking — the capture, transfer, receipt or harboring of humans for various exploitative purposes — is widespread. Available statistics are wildly inconsistent, however; the International Labor Organization has estimated the global number of victims to be 20.9 million, while the Minderoo Foundation Pty Ltd’s Global Slavery Index ...
Cramming AI models into IoT for big data at the edge: analyst predictions
Data is what separates business disruptors from the disrupted in the Digital Age. It has made millionaires and billionaires already, and the game has just teed up. More data means heftier profits — but only if it’s refined and delivered to end users on time and piping hot. Artificial intelligence can speed up data’s ingestion-to-insight cycle, ...
Open-source community pushing big data into AI realm
What’s the surest way to advance a technology in a short time? Give it away — to an open-source community. Seminal big data software library Apache Hadoop gained momentum in open source, and today, most disruptive big data development is springing from open source as well. “If people have the community traction, that is the ...