The Evolution of Big Data, At CERN and Everywhere Else (Animation)

  Lesson by Tim Smith, animation by TED-Ed. “But if big data has been around for so long, why do we suddenly keep hearing about it now? Well, as the old metaphor explains, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and it is no longer just science that...

Big Data Analytics and Data Science Events, September 2013

Wolfram Data Summit, September 5-6, Washington DC 2013 Tableau Customer Conference, September 8-12, National Harbor, Maryland 2013 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Big Data, September 8-14, Washington, DC XLDB 2013, 7th Extremely Large Databases Conference,...

The Rise of the CDO: A Tale of Two Roles

    What’s a beleaguered CIO to do? Not only CIOs are told repeatedly to expect that Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) will soon have larger IT budgets, they also have to contend with new threats: two rising “chiefs,” conveniently and confusingly labeled with...

Brief: VMware puts emphasis on storage at VMworld 2013

Current Overview VMware is best known for its hypervisor technology, and to that end, they have pretty much defined the entire market, and by all accounts, continues to and will continue to be the market leader. At VMworld 2013, Pat Gelsinger, CEO of VMware, announced...