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Atlas Venture’s Chris Lynch on the value in Big Data | #BigDataNYC
Wall Street may be abuzz over the Big Data boom, but Chris Lynch of Atlas Venture cautions against jumping on the bandwagon with rose-tinted glasses. The veteran investor stopped by theCUBE at SiliconANGLE’s Big Data NYC 2013 event to share the venture capitalist angle on the transformative impact of information on business. Having held senior ...
Actian CTO on the digital data tap | #BigDataNYC
Actian, one of the biggest private software companies in the world, is pursuing an aggressive acquisition strategy in an effort to stay ahead of the Big Data curve. Mike Hoskins, the firm’s chief technology officer, stopped by theCUBE last week to discuss his ambitious growth plans and the bleeding edge trends he’s been keeping track of. ...
The Hadapt approach to making Big Data consumable | #BigDataNYC
Harnessing the power of Big Data is no small feat, requiring organizational commitment, substantial investments in infrastructure and talent and clear project objectives. There’s also the matter of putting that power in the hands of users, a challenge that Hadapt has set out to solve. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the startup offers a relational abstraction ...
The human edge of Big Data | #BigDataNYC
The Big Data market is on the verge of a new era, with information becoming more accessible through a combination of self-service capabilities and advanced visualization features. Edd Dumbill, the vice president of strategy for Silicon Valley Data Science, appeared on theCUBE at SiliconANGLE’s recently concluded Big Data NYC 2013 event to share his unique ...
Weekly Cloud Review: Converged infrastructure + developer outreach
With the consumerization of IT sweeping through the enterprise, organizations are increasingly embracing the private cloud in an effort to keep up with the fast-evolving expectations of their end-users. The path to addressing the needs of today’s workforce leads to converged infrastructure, a modular approach to managing data centers that aims to simplify deployment and ...
Internet of Things review: Cisco’s new IoT + Google Glass accessories
It’s go big or go extinct for Cisco, which seeks to adapt its enterprise networking franchise to the burgeoning Internet of Things in a push to capitalize on the coming wave of connected devices. This week at the Internet of Things World Forum in Barcelona, the company announced that it’s consolidating its efforts under a ...
Weekly security review: MongoHQ goes into lockdown
MongoDB hosting company MongoHQ has suffered a breach of its systems on Monday, forcing it to go into lockdown to minimize the damage to users. The attackers reportedly gained access to the firm’s network through a compromised account on an internal employee support application. MongoHQ promptly published a security notice in which it promised to ...
Weekly Big Data review: App development and BI
Not wanting to be overlooked amidst the Hadoop ecosystem’s bold push into the cloud, several prominent vendors decided to stay on the sidelines of the Big Data Week festival. Unified monitoring provider Zenoss led the charge with a major upgrade to its Service Impact solution, which provides near real time insights into application dependencies across ...
Clustrix releases flagship database for online download
Database maker Clustrix has finally released its flagship platform as a standalone download, enabling customers to deploy the software in their own data centers. Previously available only on AWS, the platform comes in two versions: a free community edition that’s limited to 12 cores, and a commercial edition that starts at $1200 per core per ...
Cisco doubles down on video as part of bold Internet of Things push
Networking giant Cisco is sharpening its focus on online video with the H.264 codec for high-definition streaming. The company recently announced that it has open sourced the software in a bid to enhance media quality across both consumer space and the enterprise, where it competes with its line of IP Phones and TelePresence video conferencing ...
