CIOs Need to Become More Active, Visible to Fix IT
Bridging the gap between a company’s IT organization and business users is a daunting task, but not an impossible one. Scott Lowe, the founder of The 1610 Group, argues that it is within the…
eHarmony Refines the Science of Love : Hadoop + Machine Learning | #hadoopsummit
For our flagship broadcast program theCUBE, Jeff Kelly interviewed Vaclav Petricek, Principal Data Specialist with eHarmony, live from Hadoop Summit 2013, talking about long term compatibility and the underlying architecture that makes it possible.…
DuckDuckGo Goes Mobile with !bangs and Stories
The private search engine DuckDuckGo’s traffic may have increased dramatically in the last couple of week’s, but that doesn’t mean that everyone is quick to jump ship and abandon Google’s watchful eye. There are…
Weekly Cloud Review: Amazon Hot on the Heels of Microsoft
This week, Microsoft announced that a leading provider of cloud-based automation software added its solution to the Azure marketplace, and Amazon revealed that it has allied with GE to analyze sensory data from a…
How People Will Drive the Industrial Internet Revolution
Computers are regarded as ‘intelligent’ machines, but this intelligence only comes from human operators telling them what to do. Now, we’re seeing a new wave of innovation that’s transforming all kinds of machines –…
Weekly Big Data Review: It’s All About Abstraction (and Hortonworks)
The Big Data space saw a lot of activity this past week. Hortonworks nabbed $50 million from investors, Datameer unveiled software that can churn out insights faster than any data scientist, and Splunk introduced…
EFF & FBI Face-Off Over NGI Facial Recognition Database
Digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has just filed a lawsuit against the FBI and the Department of Justice, accusing them of ignoring its repeated requests for more information pertaining to their…
Stu Miniman on VMware’s Plan to Virtualize Hadoop
VMware is hoping to secure its place at the intersection of cloud and Big Data with Project Serengeti, a set of open-source tools designed to speed up the deployment of Hadoop in virtualized environments.…
Adobe Snaps Up Neolane As Marketing Tech Battle Lines Are Drawn
Adobe has just splashed out $600 million in cash to acquire the French marketing automation firm Neolane, best known for its “conversational marketing” technology. It’s products are pretty nifty, allowing marketers to integrate data…
“Atlantis” Online Black Market Flaunts Itself On YouTube
Most of us have heard of these so-called ‘underground’ websites like the Silk Road lurking amidst the “dark web”, where it’s supposedly possible to buy anything from drugs to guns and even assassins for…