Advertising data going forward: Transparency and scale
The problem with advertising data and what to do about it. Plus, the future of big data architecture, and other stories from the Ad Tech trenches
Read More →DataOps: Changing the world one organization at a time
Uncertain about the benefits of going data-driven? Not sure how to get there? Here's some advice from the people who built Facebook's data infrastructure
Read More →Big Data versus money laundering: Machine learning, applications and regulation in finance
Could financial fraud such as the Laundromat be avoided by applying machine learning to scan through data? And if yes, why is that not happening?
Read More →Disrupting insurance: data-driven customer value
Why hasn't the insurance business been disrupted yet, and how could data be used to do this? Atidot has a go at addressing those questions.
Read More →Devs are from Mars, Ops are from Venus: Can analytics bridge the gap?
Despite what they'd have you believe, Devs and Ops don't always get along nicely. Pepperdata and LinkedIn think data and analytics may be the way to educate and show the impact of code running in production.
Read More →Why finance craves big data: A perfect storm of disruption and opportunity
The financial services domain, where real-time is measured in milliseconds, holds particular interest for big data applications and vendors for a number of reasons: architecture, regulation, transparency, decision-making, and the need for speed.
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 →Structure Data and the Competitive Landscape
Structure Data 2014 was another excellent Gigaom event. To anyone who has ever been to one, this is no surprise. Here’s my pick of the most interesting sessions and related news. Intel and its Hadoop distribution strategy Strange as it may sound, Intel has its own Hadoop distribution. Or at least it did up to […]
Read More →Twitter doesn’t like me, but it’s nothing personal: stock plunges, engagement, and walled gardens
I’m a very late joiner on Twitter. Even though as an analyst being active on Twitter is something that has come to be part and parcel of the job, i used to joke about my “no Twitter by Design” strategy. I had my reasons, some having to do with me, some with Twitter itself. Now […]
Read More →Mastering the business side of SaaS and IaaS
You probably know Gigaom and its expertise on, among other things, cloud. You probably know David Linthicum and Janakiram MSV as renowned cloud experts, and you may know myself from work we’ve done with Gigaom and Interworks as an up and coming vendor. Given that, you are most likely to be interested in our webinar […]
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