What IBM, the Semantic Web Company, and Siemens are doing with semantic technologies

Defining semantics is a matter of semantics, not less so in the Big Data space.
Read More →GODAN, feeding the world with open data

Would you be skeptical if someone told you that feeding the world with open data can actually feed the world? That’s GODAN’s mission statement in a nutshell, and its leader talked to us about it. Even if you know about open data and its significance, you may not be familiar with Global Open Data for Agriculture […]
Read More →MarkLogic, dual-wielding its way through transactional and analytical workloads

Is dealing with transactional and analytical workloads in a single database a pipe dream? Not according to MarkLogic, which has its own way of taking on both.
Read More →How i learned to stop worrying and love telling stories

I’ve got tech, data, and media, and i’m not afraid to use them. Here’s my story, why you may care, and how to make sure you’re up to date. A geek’s life I have not always liked writing, neither have i always been that good at making cases and telling stories. Or at least, that’s […]
Read More →Euclid Analytics: Applying data science to human behavior

As its namesake did for mathematics, Euclid Analytics aims to deal with physical world analytics in a formal and systematic way. Here's a look at EA's latest product.
Read More →Analyzing customer journeys can be NICE

Does the journey matter more than the destination? For customer analytics, it just might. NICE just released a tool for Customer Journey Optimization, and we've got the lowdown.
Read More →Mesosphere + DataStax + Confluent + Lightbend = Container 2.0… But is it complicated?

Last week Mesosphere announced a number of strategic partnerships that comprise a comprehensive ecosystem and spearhead its initiative for what it calls Container 2.0. We take a look at what this means for the industry.
Read More →Seebo, virtualizing Things on the Internet

Developing IoT projects is complex, partly due to its fluid state, partly due to the many hardware and software moving parts, and partly because of everything that comes with app development. Seebo promises to ease this process by throwing some smart tech in the mix.
Read More →From a basement in Athens to Space and beyond: the unlikely story of Climate Watch

We don’t have to save the world. The world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about is whether or not the world we live in will be capable of sustaining us in it. Yes, it’s a bit early for towel day. But i could not think of a […]
Read More →An analyst’s life: from Gigaom and Big Data to VisionMobile and Developer Economics and..Big Developer Data

The last post in this blog, a year ago, was about Hadoop security. We had just finished our latest webcast with Gigaom on the different options for managing Hadoop and were looking ahead to a number of prospects, including a Sector Roadmap on SaaS BI to be unveiled at Structure:Data 2015. Much water has flowed […]
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