Suzanne Kattau

Suzanne Kattau (formerly Suzanne Harnos) is Editor at SiliconANGLE where she focuses on cloud technology, consumer news and trends. She is a veteran computer journalist based in New York. Previously, Suzanne was an associate editor at BZ Media’s Software Development Times. Before that, she was an online editor at Ziff Davis Enterprise’s eWEEK and technical editor at CMP Media’s InternetWeek. She graduated from Hofstra University with a Bachelor’s degree in English.

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The cloud’s role in Big Data : Rethinking modern IT

What role does the cloud play in Big Data deployments today and what will the future of Big Data in the cloud look like? To understand both, we should first look at the state of the Big Data market today—and even the definition of Big Data itself. The Big Data market is growing and its growth shows ...

Tableau and Splunk ally for machine data visualization

Tableau Software and Splunk, two of the first pure-play Big Data vendors to have gone public, today announced an alliance, a “joint technology investment” to help customers glean insights from the vast volumes of machine data generated by the Internet of Things. The move comes as the analytics ecosystem enters into a new phase of maturity ...

Datameer teams with European startup Trustev to fight online fraud

Traditional fraud-detection systems utilize rule-based decisioning and profiling to identify suspect requests, an approach that can prove effective in spotting anomalous behavior on an individual transaction basis but doesn’t provide broader context on incidents. That becomes an issue when dealing with more elaborate schemes that exceed the scope of one particular algorithm, which deliberately exploit ...

Cloud security specialist Elastica helps CIOs tame shadow IT

The past several weeks have seen no less than three startups emerge from stealth mode to tackle the unauthorized use of public cloud services in the enterprise—a growing phenomenon that is driven, in part, by increasing end-user frustration with internal offerings. The newest contender that has emerged from stealth mode is Elastica, which launched last ...

Making the enterprise look more like the public cloud

2014 is well underway, and one of the most hotly debated topics in IT right now surrounds the opportunity for open source in the enterprise. Companies want to know how they can use open source to look more like the public cloud. What role will OpenStack, the open-source cloud computing platform, play in helping enterprises ...

Virtualization today: Key trends and players

In virtualization today, there are key trends and players that are deeply impacting the direction in which the space is evolving. VMware has been the undeniable leader in the virtualization space up until now. However, the buzz now surrounds other service providers that are playing a significant role in shaping the virtualization space. Because IT ...

2014 Technology Predictions Series: OpenStack to dominate cloud

SiliconANGLE recently featured a multi-part “Technology Predictions for 2014” series in which industry providers shared their predictions about the hot tech trends that will take center stage in 2014. We heard Big Data, cloud and mobile predictions from various companies including Alpine Data Labs, MapR Technologies, Netapp, RadiumOne, SAP, SGI, Think Big Analytics and Xplenty. ...

Intel Cloud Technology program : Pushing transparency through cloud ecosystem

Intel invests heavily to stay on top of the latest trends in IT, even when it means venturing into unfamiliar territory. Take last year, for example, when the chip maker took a bold dive into Big Data with a homegrown Hadoop distribution. Now it’s hoping to establish a beachhead in the public cloud through the Intel Cloud ...

Zephyr Health bags $15M to advance analytics in life sciences

The life sciences industry, like most traditional segments, was caught off guard by the Big Data revolution. Today, years after Hadoop first broke into the enterprise, healthcare providers and pharmaceutical companies are only just beginning to take advantage of the opportunities that Big Data offers. To help life sciences companies tap into new sources of ...

2014 Technology Predictions Series: F5 on Cloud

As 2013 winds down, it’s only natural for people to make personal New Year’s resolutions for 2014. It’s also a perfect time for technology industry predictions. This is the tenth and final installation in our multi-part “Technology Predictions for 2014” series in which industry providers—from Big Data to cloud to mobile—share their predictions about the ...