How old do I look? Microsoft’s Big Data knows your age
Everyone wants to believe they look younger than they really are, and people hardly care to admit their true age. Well, if you want to guess how old a person is, Microsoft has come…
Cloudera valued at $4.7 billion but won’t turn a profit soon, analysts say
Hadoop is getting hotter, and that can only be good news for Cloudera Inc. as it looks to cash in on one of enterprise software’s biggest trends. Rival companies like Hortonworks Inc. and IBM…
Solution-oriented consulting for enterprise | #mlw15
Consumer-grade solutions just don’t cut it in the enterprise world — and that’s why MarkLogic makes it such a priority, according to Tavo De Leon, senior director of Big Data Strategy & Solutions at…
Facebook is using Nokia’s Here maps for mobile, Instagram, and Messenger
By Eric David
Finnish telecom Nokia has been looking to sell its Here maps business, which has been valued at over $2 billion, and it looks like it may have found a buyer in social media…
Revolutionizing psychology with MarkLogic | #mlw15
As a major publishing, media, and research company, the American Psychological Association (APA) funnels huge amounts of data in many different formats through its systems. Beverly Jamison, the senior director of IT Architecture for…
Revolutionizing databases with MarkLogic | #mlw15
In the same way that the DevOps approach has revolutionized networking and infrastructure, MarkLogic Corp. has worked tirelessly to reinvent the backbone of online business: databases. Where browsers, middleware and databases all used to…
Using MarkLogic to support finance innovation | #mlw15
Finance is known for being a fast-paced world, and IT solutions for finance are no exception to the rule. Paolo Pelizzoli, global head of architecture for global technology operations at Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.,…
Christopher Rence on infrastructure and integration | #emcworld
John Furrier and Dave Vellante recently spoke with Christopher Rence, during EMC World 2015 in Las Vegas, on the subject of digital business infrastructure and the challenges of integrating with the cloud. Rence is…
What you missed in the Smart World: Sprint and BlackBerry tout new IoT solutions
This week’s Smart World Series features Sprint’s single-SIM strategy, Scanadu raising $35 million in Series B funding, and the latest in Internet of Things (IoT) training tools. For those who missed last week’s Smart World…
Microsoft hints at Windows-as-a-Service strategy for future revenues
The software-as-a-service (SaaS) model has expanded rapidly in the past few years, with many companies preferring it over the traditional licensing model. But Microsoft, the biggest software company of them all, has been somewhat…