100 Petabytes of Data in Poop?
University of California computer scientist Dr. Larry Smarr is a man on a mission—to measure everything his body consumes, performs,…
Private Cloud Hosting: Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too
Industry titans like Google and Microsoft have put billions of dollars into cloud computing initiatives over the past five years…
Three Use Cases for Splunk
The greatest source of potential use cases for technology is the user community. This is a great reason to attend…
Hadoop pushes, pulls Big Data analytics into mainstream (Part Two)
Did you miss out? It’s ok. We’ll fill you in. Part one of this two-part exploration of Hadoop’s affect on…
SAP’s Social Layer: Making Collaboration Real
You’ll recall a few weeks back I wrote a post about attending SAP’s SAPPHIRENOW user conference this past May discussing…
Hortonworks Leads a Fast and Growing Herd of Hadoop
Hadoop, the big-data technology, has transformed businesses’ ability to cost-effectively store and process large volumes of data for analysis. Numerous…
Microsoft Buys Enterprise Social Network Vendor Yammer for $1.2B
The much anticipated and highly rumored announcement finally hit the wires today. One of the biggest questions was where would…
‘Crack the cloud management nut and a cascade of benefits awaits’
“Crack nut and a cascade of benefits awaits…”That’s the call from Jason Liu, CEO of UC4 Software, saying that the…
IBM Advances Predictive Analytics for Decision Management
At its Business Analytics Analyst Summit (Twitter: #IBMBAS12) this week, IBM unveiled its new release of analytics software for decision management.…