Data Works, Hadoop 3.0 is round the corner, and ‘Horton Hatches the Egg’
What's coming in Hadoop 3.0? How is Hortonworks' strategy evolving? And what are some examples of open-source powered innovation in big data use cases?
Read More →Please wait while your future trickles down: innovation, asymmetry and evolution
If you believe the technologists, the future is around the corner and it’s going to be perfect. But is more technology really the answer to every problem? The future’s so bright, i gotta wear shades Do you know what CeBIT is? Chances are you do, because here you are reading this. This means you have […]
Read More →Artificial intelligence in the real world: What can it actually do?
What are the limits of AI? And how do you go from managing data points to injecting AI in the enterprise?
Read More →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 →Hadoop World vendor announcements and impact on Accessibility, Scalability and Security
This week the world’s biggest event for all things Hadoop takes place, the Strata and Hadoop World conference. Vendors announce and showcase new releases and features in their offerings, and Gigaom covered the extensive array of news. Let’s try to decipher them and see their impact in terms of Hadoop distributions Accessibility, Scalability and Security. […]
Read More →Hadoop moving forward: a sneak peek at security & performance
As Hadoop is steadily making its way to the enterprise, the bar is raised in many ways. Since two of the most obvious requirements to be able to make it there are security and performance, i cherry-picked some related announcements made recently – shortly before and after Hadoop Summit, the biggest Hadoop event of the […]
Read More →Global and Mobile App Delivery in the Age of IT Consumerization. Part 3: Changes Going Forward and Analytics
In the 3rd and concluding part of this series of posts on Gigaom’s webinar on Global and Mobile App Delivery in the Age of IT Consumerization, sponsored by Akamai, the last items in the webinar agenda are covered: changes going forward and the impact on analytics and BI. The webinar (now available on Vimeo and […]
Read More →Global and Mobile App Delivery in the Age of IT Consumerization. Part 2: Impact and Delivery Enhancements
Picking up from where we left off on the topics discussed in Gigaom webinar titled Global and Mobile App Delivery in the Age of IT Consumerization, sponsored by Akamai, this week we cover the impact of consumerization, globalization, and mobility on application delivery and the prioritization of potential delivery enhancements. The webinar addressed the following […]
Read More →Global and Mobile App Delivery in the Age of IT Consumerization. Part 1: Application Delivery Landscape
Last week i had the chance to participate as a panelist in a Gigaom webinar titled Global and Mobile App Delivery in the Age of IT Consumerization, sponsored by Akamai. It was an interesting discussion, as it covered the topic from the points of view of the network and the data center, application development and […]
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