Panel discussion: Customer engagement and data in motion | #BigDataNYC
It’s one thing to talk about Big Data as a concept, but what does the whole thing mean to the people in the trenches who work with Big Data every day? To properly understand…
Panel discussion: ODPi vision for the enterprise | #BigDataNYC
When it comes to Hadoop, there are varying opinions about its relevance and compatibility with enterprise systems. SiliconANGLE held a panel at BigDataNYC 2015 to discuss the Open Data Platform initiative (ODPi) from the perspective…
Is Apple HomeKit too closed-minded to drive smart home standards?
Since making its debut with the launch of iOS 8 in 2014, Apple Inc.’s HomeKit has been slow in gaining traction in the smart home market. Since announcing in June that Apple HomeKit devices…
Mega unicorn: Informatica strategy evolves as a private company | #BigDataNYC
“We are all things data for our customers,” said Amit Walia, EVP & CPO, Informatica LLC. “What matters is the data, that’s what is important for our company. … We want to be the…
Transwarp Technologies uses open source and non-proprietary Hadoop core | #BigDataNYC
The Chinese economy and technology industry have been booming in the past several decades. What does this mean for global competition, and where are our Chinese counterparts innovating? Dave Vellante and George Gilbert, cohosts of theCUBE,…
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Syncsort hooks up its data integration service to Kafka and Spark
Syncsort Inc. hopes to bring the entry barrier to performing real-time analytics down a notch with a new iteration of its flagship data integration software that can hook up to an organization’s stream processing…
Controversial ‘Deus Ex: Mankind Divided’ pre-order campaign has been canceled
By Eric David
At the beginning of September, Eidos Montreal announced a pre-order campaign for its upcoming game, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, but the campaign was almost instantly unpopular with fans. Now exactly one month later, Eidos and its parent…
Puppet Labs now models infrastructure from the application out
By Paul Gillin
Puppet Labs, Inc., which has ridden the surging popularity of the DevOps and IT automation crazes to a revenue run rate of over $75 million and IPO plans next spring, is upping its enterprise…
Hortonworks committed to ODPi and the open community | #BigDataNYC
“You cannot ‘out innovate’ the open community model,” according to Hortonworks, Inc. CTO Scott Gnau, who sees the appeal of openness in gaining credibility by sharing ideas, the ability to get more eyeballs on…
GameStop CEO thinks “disc-based games will be around forever”
By Eric David
Even as digital game sales are slowly gaining on physical discs, GameStop Corp CEO Paul Raines believes that discs will never really go away, and GameStop will continue to sell them. “Disc-based games will be around…