SAP's participation gives Cloud Foundry more enterprise cred while Rackspace's entry could ease IaaS-PaaS confusion between OpenStack and Cloud Foundry.…
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Top techies tout their top tech tools for webscale computing
Developers love the latest and greatest tooling. Whether it's Sawzall, a Google language that bridges declarative and procedural worlds. Or Kafka, a real-time framework for managing data streams. Here are four or five tools that deserve a look.…
Read MoreCoffee & Empathy: Why data without a soul is meaningless
As we move towards a quantified society, one shaped by data, we start to dismiss things that are unquantified. Empathy, emotion and storytelling -- these are as much a part of business as they are of life. Here is why.…
Read MoreThe week in cloud: reports of a spy cloud from Amazon and lotsa outages
Google Drive and LinkedIn suffered snafus this week; and Amazon will reportedly build a not-so-secret cloud for the Central Intelligence Agency.…
Read More5 ways big data is going to blow your mind and change your world
Call it whatever you want -- big data, data science, data intelligence -- but be prepared to have your mind blown. Imagination and technology are on a collision course that will change the world in profound ways.…
Read MoreHow closely knit design and engineering teams put Pinterest on a rocket ship
For companies in Silicon Valley who want to prioritize design, the real question is how to do it while also shipping engineering products to market. At Pinterest, the designers and engineers are vocal that you can, in fact, do both.…
Read MoreBig data needs people, leaders and real-time analytics: A Structure:Data 2013 recap
A few trends emerged in more than 30 talks at this year's GigaOM Structure:Data conference in New York on March 20-21. The big one: people play a crucial part in the big data equation.…
Read MoreNo, not every database was created equal. Here’s how they stand out
In-memory, SQL, NoSQL and graph databases were on display in a fiesty discussion about databases that don't involve Hadoop. The distinctions stand out amid growing interest in specialized databases in a big-data age.…
Read MoreNasdaq on the virtues of the public cloud
Financial institutions have a lot of data -- as in multiple petabytes-- so storing that data for use in new products and for regulatory compliance will move to the public cloud.…
Read MoreAt Eventbrite, the challenge is with realtime data
For a company like Eventbrite, which manages ticket sales and audiences for events across the world, keeping up with the constant flow of data and information is a challenge.…
Read MorePursuing big data utopia: What realtime interactive analytics could mean to you
We've pretty much got the data scale problem solved, now we have to focus on speed. When that big data utopia of scale and performance is achieved, the applications could be awesome.…
Read MoreWhy Guavus analyzes lots of telecommunications data before storing it all
Rather than store lots of data and then analyze to draw insights, Guavus puts rapid analysis first, yielding considerable return on investment for telecommunications companies, said CEO Anukool Lakhina.…
Read MoreIf the future of BI is Hadoop, SQL and the cloud are the glue
There's no doubt that Hadoop is the data tool of the present and future, but more can be done to make it really shine for business intelligence.…
Read MoreHadoop applications abound, but Hadoop still needs improvement
Entrepreneurs who build applications on top of Hadoop see lots of use cases, but the ecosystem needs to evolve further in order to support wider and more cost-effective implementations.…
Read MoreHow search can solve big data problems
LucidWorks CTO Grant Ingersoll made his case at Structure:Data on Thursday for why companies tackling big problems related to large sets of data should give search another look.…
Read MoreGetting beyond the cult of big data
Asking how something is better than Hadoop is not the right question. For strategic thinking around big data companies need to figure out what they want to achieve, not what tool to use.…
Read MoreWant a better/greener/more agile data center? Use the data.
Want to see big data in action? When it comes to planning out data center capacity, data can influence everything from the power usage to planning for disasters.…
Read MoreHadoop: “It’s damn hard to use”
Former Yahoo Chief Cloud Architect Todd Papaioannou said his difficulties building a consistent, stable Hadoop platform at Yahoo directly led him to found his startup Continuuity.…
Read MoreBig data analytics is great but it’s no silver bullet
All companies have data, all companies have people: the secret to big data analytics is incorporating people into the overall process, according to speakers at GigaOM's Structure Data.…
Read MoreWhy Nuance sees the semantic web as a key to smarter natural language interfaces
Natural language user interfaces show great promise for a variety of situations, but Nuance Communications CTO Vlad Sejnoha sees a need for standard formats if new entrants aren't to be blocked as data sources.…
Read MoreSix ideas from entrepreneurs for solving your big-data problems
Wrapping up the first day of GigaOM's 2013 Structure:Data conference, entrepreneurs from six startups talked about big ideas that show ideals for how to derive valuable insights from large sets of data.…
Read MorePeople will give up their personal info if you give them a good reason
Just like internet cookies went from major privacy concern to an accepted part of web browsing, the sharing of personal information like location and DNA will become more acceptable once people understand the value they may get out of offering it.…
Read MoreDo we need internet exchanges for public cloud data portability?
Companies often need to decide between innovation and open standards when they put their data into the cloud. So how can we improve data portability?…
Read MoreBeyond the Like button: Putting social networks to work for us
While using machine learning over large data sets to serve up ads inside social networks isn't new, there's an era emerging where social network data can be used to help people solve important problems.…
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