Asserting Control over the Cloud

Cloud applications and infrastructure are becoming ubiquitous. There are cloud applications (SaaS), cloud software stacks (PaaS), and cloud infrastructure (IaaS) options including storage and compute resources. The advantages of cloud computing are well known...

Outside the Box: Separating the Data from the Hardware

A veteran CIO recounted to me recently how responsive her IT organization has become once they started separating the data from the hardware. Before, it was common to have a hard drive failure and find out the user has not done a backup. Once they put the data in the...

Big Data and Data Science Events: October 2013

16th International Conference on Discovery Science and 24th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, October 6-9, Singapore IEEE BigData 2013, October 6-9, Santa Clara, CA ACM Conference on Online Social Networks, October 7-8, Boston, MA The ACM...

7 Observations from the Big Data Innovation Summit

The Innovation Enterprise events group put together recently the second annual Big Data Innovation Summit in Boston. Here are a few of the highlights of the first day: Banana production in Central America is twice the rate of trash production in New York City This and...