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Operational Intelligence: Using Big Data To Cut Through The Noise

NEWS By ALAN MCSTRAVICK13 YEARS AGO

In a series begun yesterday, SiliconANGLE is providing overviews of some of the key presentations scheduled for next week’s MIT Chief Development Officer Information Quality Symposium to be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Today’s offering focuses on Dr. Ahmed Abukhater, PhD, GISP Global …

Mexico Has Their Head In The Cloud

NEWS By ALAN MCSTRAVICK13 YEARS AGO

Ask most Americans what they know about the land just across our southern border and chances are they will tell you about out-of-control drug related violence, a governmental structure that is highly corrupted and a less than stellar physical infrastructure. As one …

Making Medical Data Better Data

NEWS By ALAN MCSTRAVICK13 YEARS AGO

In just over a week, the team here at SiliconANGLE will be setting off for Cambridge, Massachusetts for the 7th Annual MIT Chief Data Officer and Information Quality Symposium held on the MIT campus. The theme this year is ‘Big Data Demands …

What Can You Do With Too Much Of A Good Thing?

NEWS By ALAN MCSTRAVICK13 YEARS AGO

IT departments at the end of the last decade operated with the same reckless abandon as the homesteaders of the 1889 land rush, seeking to grab up as much cloud storage capability as their budgets might allow. For too many, more was …

Data Incognito: Securing The Cloud

NEWS By ALAN MCSTRAVICK13 YEARS AGO

The week is rare that doesn’t see a headline on internet privacy and security with a story underneath detailing how another breach has compromised user data. It turns out, however, not every privacy/security story is bad news. This was the case with …

Does This Boxee Make Me Look Frustrated???

NEWS By ALAN MCSTRAVICK13 YEARS AGO

For a Friday after a national holiday, the web has certainly been abuzz about Samsung ponying up an undetermined amount of cash to purchase the New York-based start-up Boxee. The company, currently in its sixth year of operation, designed and marketed set-top …

Is Free Storage Really Free?

NEWS By ALAN MCSTRAVICK13 YEARS AGO

Much has been written regarding outfits such as Dropbox, iCloud and others that offer free storage by simply setting up an account. And there are, as Brandon Butler at Network World pointed out, enough storage providers on the market that one could …

Hadoop: The Next Generation In Data Management

NEWS By ALAN MCSTRAVICK13 YEARS AGO

Last week at the Hadoop Summit in San Jose, industry experts came together to discuss the future of this analytics platform. SiliconANGLE covered each of the sessions and what we learned is though Hadoop already has achieved a broad acceptance, the opportunities …

Netflix Cloud Protocols Calling ‘All Aboard’

NEWS By ALAN MCSTRAVICK13 YEARS AGO

The standardized width of US train tracks is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. And I learned in a recent forwarded e-mail from a certain senior in my life that this standard could be traced back through history to tramways in the UK that …

The Future of Flash For Storage Solutions

NEWS By ALAN MCSTRAVICK13 YEARS AGO

Earlier this year, SiliconANGLE’s own Maria Deutscher penned an article on QLogic’s FabricCache and how it could be well positioned for the flash storage revolution. This new adapter bridges the chasm between servers by allowing direct-attached storage, typically unable to be shared …

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