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 10th International Cloud Expo, held on June 11–14, 2012 at the Javits Center in New York City, featured four content-packed days with a rich array of sessions about the business and technical value of cloud computing led by exceptional speakers from every sector of the cloud computing ...Jun. 30, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,753 |
 “Big data represents a sea change of capabilities in IT” notes Matt McLarty, Vice President, Client Solutions at Layer 7, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. McLarty continued: “In conjunction with mobile and cloud, I think Big Data will provide a tech...Jun. 30, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,348 Replies: 1 |
 Big Data applications have gained new momentum in the marketplace, as the benefits of working with larger and larger data sets enables analysts to spot key business-related trends. International Data Corporation (IDC) released a worldwide forecast of Big Data opportunities, noting that...Jun. 30, 2012 01:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,995 |
 Big Data is Big, but it also causes a lot of confusion. Big Data is used for anything related storage these days, so people don’t know anymore what it exactly is. Is it Hadoop? Is it analytics? It doesn’t need to be that complicated though. There are two kinds of Big Data: Big Data (fo...Jun. 29, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,264 |
 “The speed of businesses is accelerating, requiring continuous tuning and optimization of business processes and operations,” noted Bruce Fingles, CIO and VP of Product Quality at Xsigo Systems, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “IT organizations mus...Jun. 29, 2012 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,419 |
 “Big Data analytics will shape the form of nearly every process going forward in time, from the color of the latest fashions, what the candidates say in one town versus another to the chemical composition of the latest super drug,” noted Steve Knodl, Director of Product Management at N...Jun. 29, 2012 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,261 |
 “Exponentially increasing data volume, Internet access points and speed have made Big Data more accessible and therefore more practical,” noted Mike Carpenter, VP of Business Development at CARI.net, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Add social medi...Jun. 29, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,198 |
 Big Data is often described by the three drivers (dimensions) of: volume, velocity and variety. But Stefan Andreasen, Founder and CTO of Kapow has alerted us to the fourth – spread. Volume describes the overall AMOUNT of Big Data. It almost goes without saying, that for data to be big,...Jun. 28, 2012 03:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,768 |
 "It was my first time at a Cloud Expo show, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. But man, what a blast it turned out to be. Great exhibits, great audience, great floor traffic, great conversations with IT leaders and folks in the channel." With those words, Tom Gaydos - Director, Marketing...Jun. 27, 2012 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 987 |
 CIO.com recently published its list of 9 open-source technologies to watch. Hadoop is first on the list, and second up is the R Project: R is an open source programming language and software environment designed for statistical computing and visualization. R was designed by Ross Ihaka ...Jun. 27, 2012 12:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,223 |
 Enterprise IT managers are tasked with the mission to solve for the vast explosion of business data. As business data continues its relentless growth, building complex, tiered storage architectures is no longer practical. It has been nearly impossible to keep ahead of the explosion of ...Jun. 26, 2012 10:21 AM EDT Reads: 1,366 |
 Editor’s note: The following was written by Kord Davis from a post originally at KordIndex. Kord is the author of a forthcoming book on Ethics of Big Data. - bg Alexis Madrigal reporting on research conducted at Carnegie Mellon in The Atlantic finds that reading all of the pr... Jun. 26, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 645 |
 One thing that gets lost in the general Big Data hubbub is the critical question of apps. Big Data can provide stunning business insights but unless those insights are embodied into an application that can galvanize new business behaviors they are not worth much.
VMware has been a t...Jun. 26, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,528 |
 The greatest source of potential use cases for technology is the user community. This is a great reason to attend events where customers are at the center of focus. This was what last month’s Splunk Live DC was like. Splunk is a very user-focused capability and when you create... Jun. 26, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 911 |
 “Cloud computing represents a paradigm shift for IT, transforming computing power into a utility,” observed James Weir, CTO and Co-Founder of UShareSoft, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “While cloud adoption remains in the early stages,” Weir conti...Jun. 25, 2012 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,086 |
 This year's Cloud Expo New York appeared to be double the size of last year. Not only were there more solution providers on the expo floor, there appeared to me quite a few additional sessions to attend. I felt even the session quality was better than last year, with more knowledge spr...Jun. 22, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,474 |
 “The productization of Big Data will be an interesting trend to track, and I think we'll start to see some significant investment in this area over the coming months,” noted Scott Sneddon, Vyatta’s Director of Cloud Solutions, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jere...Jun. 22, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,514 |
 Recently, at one of the customer meetings, I was asked whether GridGain comes with its own database. Naturally my reaction was – why? GridGain easily integrates pretty much with any persistent store you wish, including any RDBMS, NoSql, or HDFS stores. Jun. 21, 2012 07:45 PM EDT Reads: 363 |
 I spent some time last week with several vendors and users of Hadoop, the formless data repository that is the current favorite of many dot coms and the darling of the data nerds. It was instructive. Moms and Dads, tell … Co...Jun. 21, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,760 |
 The US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) held a Geoint Community Week June 4-8 2012 which included a technology day. The afternoon of 07 June was dedicated to fast-paced “ignite” style presentations from some of the key community thought leaders on geospatial data. At the end ...Jun. 21, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,897 |
 “Big Data eliminates the data silos that formerly existed, improving the depth and quality of analysis that can take place,” observed Scott Kinka, Chief Technology Officer at Evolve IP, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Without these barriers, Kinka...Jun. 20, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,609 |
 Hadoop remains a difficult platform for most enterprises to master. For now skills are still hard to come by – both for data architect or engineer, and especially for data scientists. It still takes too much skill, tape, and baling wire to get a Hadoop cluster together. Not every enter...Jun. 19, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 914 |
 “Security standards for moving data into and out of the cloud and for hosting it within the cloud will dramatically help accelerate adoption of the cloud as a secure computing platform,” observed Dr. William L. Bain, founder and CEO of ScaleOut Software, in this exclusive Q&A; with Clou...Jun. 19, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,562 |
 “While there is still a lot of interest in Big Data Analytics, we see an increasing focus on Big Unstructured Data,” observed Tom Leyden, Director of Alliances and Marketing at Amplidata, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. And, Leyden continued, “Obje...Jun. 18, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,620 |
 SGI has partnered with Kalev H. Leetaru of the University of Illinois to create the first-ever historical mapping and exploration of the full text contents of the English-language edition of Wikipedia, in time and space.
The results include visualizations of modern history captured ...Jun. 18, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 631 |
 "The State of Cloud Computing June 2012" was the topic under discussion in the traditional SYS-CON.tv Power Panel recorded in our Times Square studio yesterday - the Sunday before today's Cloud Expo New York opening, kicking off 4 days of Keynotes, General Sessions technical and strate...Jun. 11, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,278 |
 The average business in 2012 will double its amount of data, with more than half of that increase occurring within the cloud. Aggregation of data is no longer the competitive lever in itself, but rather the distribution and commercialization of data across multiple platforms.
In his ...Jun. 10, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,671 |
 With BigDataExpo 2012 New York (www.BigDataExpo.net), co-located with 10th Cloud Expo, due to kick off next week for 4 days of high-energy networking and discussions, what better time to remind you in greater detail of the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for...Jun. 10, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,119 |
 The current landscape for data management, backup, and disaster recovery, too often ignores the transition from physical to virtualized environments, and sidesteps the heightened real-time role that data now plays in enterprise.
Businesses clearly need a better approach to their data ...Jun. 10, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,359 |
 There is a data deluge coming and most enterprises are preparing to integrate or introduce technologies for handling the big data in the existing IT setup. There are several challenges that enterprises face in integrating the Big Data technologies with existing IT setups.
In his sessi...Jun. 10, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,759 |
 With BigDataExpo 2012 New York (www.BigDataExpo.net), co-located with 10th Cloud Expo, due to kick off next week for 4 days of high-energy networking and discussions, what better time to remind you in greater detail of the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for...Jun. 10, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,845 |
 For many years, companies collected data from various sources that often found its way into relational databases like Oracle and MySQL. However, the rise of the Internet, Web 2.0, and recently social media began an enormous increase in the amount of data created as well as in the type ...Jun. 9, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,073 |
 With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) due to kick off this coming Monday for 4 days of high-energy networking and discussions, what better time to remind you in greater detail of the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy se...Jun. 9, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 9,653 |
 With BigDataExpo 2012 New York (www.BigDataExpo.net), co-located with 10th Cloud Expo, due to kick off next week for 4 days of high-energy networking and discussions, what better time to remind you in greater detail of the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for...Jun. 9, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,981 |
 Whether you are a large enterprise, a growing business, a government organization, or a service provider, Cloud Expo New York is THE place you need to be June 11-14...so you can better understand both the provision and use of the cloud services that increasingly transforming IT and bus...Jun. 8, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,734 |
 I am the track chair of the CloudExpo Bootcamp this year at Jacob Javits Center in NYC from June 11-14. You can check the agenda here.
As an invitee of the track chair, you can register for free (with the bootcamp option) at www.cloudcomputingexpo.com with "robustcloud" as the promo...Jun. 8, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,463 |
 With BigDataExpo 2012 New York (www.BigDataExpo.net), co-located with 10th Cloud Expo, due to kick off next week for 4 days of high-energy networking and discussions, what better time to remind you in greater detail of the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for...Jun. 6, 2012 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,710 |
 With BigDataExpo 2012 New York (www.BigDataExpo.net), co-located with 10th Cloud Expo, now less than a away, what better time to remind you in greater detail of the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...?...Jun. 5, 2012 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,187 |
 With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now just one week away, what better time to remind you in greater detail of the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...
We have technical and strategy ses...Jun. 5, 2012 02:30 AM EDT Reads: 7,968 |
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