CIOs Face Big Data Inflection Point
CIOs are facing a major inflection point in the adoption of Big Data, writes Wikibon Big Data Analyst Jeff Kelly and Chief Analyst and Co-Founder David Vellante in their latest Wikibon Professional Alert. Legacy…
Data Is the New Supply Chain: Learn the Current Methods, Risk Management
By Anthony Coln
DAMA International, the global association of professionals in data management, states that “Data Resource Management is the development and execution of architectures, policies, practices and procedures that properly manage the full data lifecycle needs of…
NYC Data Week 2012: Full Event Calendar (Parties, Too!)
New York City Data Week officially kicks off today and will run until the 26th of October. This week marks the annual gathering to talk about what’s happening in the Data world, and it…
NTT DoCoMo Offers Instant Phone Call Translation
The ability to speak a foreign language is a highly prized skill in today’s globalized world, what with cultures and peoples mixing more freely now than at any other time in history. Particularly in…
Top 5 Reasons to Upgrade to Windows 8
The official launch of Windows 8 is just around the corner and many are wondering if it would be wise to upgrade to the new Microsoft software. Not everyone is aware of the features for…
California Theater Already Set for Apple’s iPad Mini Event
In today’s mobile news roundup: Apple decorates California Theater for October 23 event; serious leaks for Google’s upcoming Android event; Motorola offers $100 rebate if you want to upgrade to a Jelly Bean smartphone;…
Google Under Attack: Battered By Brazil and the EU
It hasn’t been the best of weekends for Google, with the search engine giant suddenly finding itself backed into a corner by angry publishers in both Brazil and the EU. Google’s biggest problem seems…
This Week in Big Data: SAP’s Big Push, Microsoft and Hadoop
This week features several notable updates, including SAP’s decision to roll out its HANA in-memory database to the cloud. The BI giant launched the HANA Cloud portfolio this week, a set of different services…
This Week in the Cloud: OpenStack, Xbox Music and The Pirate Bay
OpenStack, the open-source cloud operating system, was a major highlight this week, alongside a couple of updates from the digital content streaming space. First up is ComodIT, which rolled out support for the Rackspace Open…
HP’s New Server, Latest Client Win
Hewlett-Packard has been very active in the data center this week. The company unveiled a new server product that’s expected to blow its predecessor out of the water, and released a backup and recovery…