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 →Earth Day special: on big issues, breaking news, and using data and tech to get insights and build stories

Earth day is one of those things pretty much everyone can stand behind. With virtually all scientists and the vast majority of the public acknowledging the fact that climate change is an imminent threat that must be dealt with, it marks an occasion for awareness and action. This year in particular, it coincides with 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 […]
Read More →Cloudera, Hortonworks, and how they are progressing in their Hadoop security agenda

Back in July 2014, Gigaom published a research note on Hadoop security written by me. As there seems to be rapid progress in this domain, in the last few days there have been a couple of related developments that call for an update on the picture drawn in that report. As was noted in the […]
Read More →The best approach to managing Hadoop

This week Linked Data Orchestration published another report on Big Data. The report is titled “The best approach to managing Hadoop” and is brought to you in collaboration with Gigaom and Zettaset. The report examines the 3 choices available for managing Hadoop and discusses the pros and cons for each one. Organizations leveraging on-premises Hadoop […]
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