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I made great money in college recruiting people for focus groups. Those were tough days for students in a state (New York) where the minimum wage was only $3.35 an hour. Instead, I was making $25 an hour working in a phone bank that called and convinced specific demographic groups to spend a few hours […]

After so many years in technology, I find it hard to see the newest trends as completely new. I’ve become a cynic about hype. Things have cycled so many times in my career that every new fad reminds me of  highly touted ‘movements’ like CORBA and artificial intelligence, and once-hot platforms like MySpace and AOL. […]

Matt Schumpert took the stage at the InterOp Big Data Workshop in Las Vegas yesterday to talk about the myths and realities of Big Data. Matt is Director of Solutions Engineering at Datameer and has customers that include Visa, Sears, and three out of the worlds largest five banks. He’s an expert on Big Data […]

The InterOp Big Data Workshop ended today with a panel covering Big Data into the Future, led by VentureBeat Founder and CEO Matt Marshall. The lineup was made up as follows: Justin Erickson, Senior Product Manager, Cloudera Ajit Gupta, CEO, Aryaka Stefan Groschupf, Co-founder and CEO, Datameer, Inc Bruno Aziza, VP, Worldwide Marketing, SiSense Getting into it Marshall started off by pointing out […]

The Big Data Workshop at InterOp Las Vegas wrapped up the morning with a presentation on Big Data requirements by John West, CTO and Founder of Fabless Labs. John kicked off with the challenge of having your enormous data set all ready to work with when you discover any one of the following problems: Your […]

Sometimes, just sometimes, what happens in Las Vegas shouldn’t stay in Las Vegas. That was clearly the case this morning when TIBCO CTO Matt Quinn took the stage to talk about the myths and realities of Big Data. In Why Big Data Won’t Make You Smart Rich or Pretty, Quinn provided his perspective on Big […]

Data scientists are in short supply! Or at least that’s a headline you can find nearly everywhere. There are people trying desperately to hire them and also people trying hard to jump into the perceived gap and become one. Meanwhile, there’s plenty of skepticism over whether the role is real or a function of all […]

It seems big data means something different to everyone. In the great debate/hype about big data, there’s no lack of opinion on the topic and it seems to mostly depend on an individual’s product, skill set and business challenges. This ambiguity shares a great deal of the blame for why the term is often polarizing […]

The following is a guest post by Chima Njaka. This week TIBCO LogLogic has been taking part at InfoSec Europe, the largest Information Security Event in Europe.  According to initial reports, there are over 17,000 registrants at this year’s event.  We are at booth F50 and we hope to see you there. One of the […]

The following is a guest post by Sukki Sandhar. Not so long ago, businesses didn’t care about information outside the normal structure of trusted outlets like print media, trade journals, academic research and other trusted system-generated information. In fact, I would go so far as saying that if it wasn’t structured, it wasn’t data. All […]

Predictive analytics is big business now. Hand in hand with Big Data they represent one of the only ways to get to know your consumer market and understand how they’ll behave under conditions, respond to marketing and react to incentives. But the problem with all of this is that it’s a constant cat and mouse chase, consumers are […]

This week at Cloud Connect in Santa Clara, I had a chance to sit down with Alistair Croll, founder of Solve for Interesting. I had been vaguely aware of the site 23andMe that tests and individual’s spit to help customers, “learn valuable health & ancestry information.” Not only can they tell you which of 22 […]

“Big data is any data that when you pile it up reaches into the Cloud.” This was the opening statement for Jack Norris, CMO of MapR at the Cloud Connect Conference in Santa Clara today. He was paraphrasing the analysts but it was the ideal frame up for the Big Data Track at a Cloud […]

I had the great pleasure of hearing GoodData founder Roman Stanek speak at Cloud Connect in Santa Clara this afternoon. GoodData is just his latest undertaking as Roman was the CEO and Founder of NetBeans, the leading Java development environment, that was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1999. He was also the founder of Systinet, […]

Mixpanel, a startup founded by former Y Combinator alums Tim Trefren and Suhail Doshi put together an April Fools joke video yesterday around the concept of ‘bigger data’ that made TechCrunch’s shenanigan summary ‘April Fools 2013: The Ultimate Round-Up‘. Whether it was meant to be funny or not, it brings up a point that gets […]

‘Integration’ is the conversation we’re not having. In Big Data is Distracting Us from the Real Conversation yesterday by TIBCO CTO Matt Quinn, the point was made that the world is easily distracted by over-hyped technology that gets enormous press and budgets but isn’t necessarily at the core of what’s needed for many companies. Imagine […]