How Vertica Was the Star of the Obama Campaign, and Other Revelations
One of the most critical contributors to the Obama campaign’s success was the direct access it had to a massive database of voter data stored in Vertica. The 2012 Obama […]
Blogs & Articles
Cheezburger Avoids BI ‘Fails’ By Sipping Data Slowly
Getting value from big data is everyone’s problem, even LOLCats. If you think staring at LOLCats or the FAIL Blog is wasting time at work, try telling that to Notorious […]
Why Only Fully Equipped Citizen Data Scientists Will Succeed
Wouldn’t it be great if everyone could find important insights from data, just like Hilary Mason and DJ Patil? Wouldn’t it be great if everyone could find important insights from […]
I Sure Hope More than Hadoop Crosses the Chasm
Hadoop vendors are thrilled with the uptake of Hadoop by mainstream IT buyers, it won’t be good news for the businesses buying the technology unless more than just Hadoop crosses […]
Explaining Spark to Your CEO
There comes a time in the life of every important technology where the CEO gets interested and wants to know what the fuss is all about. That time has come […]
Make Your Web Site ‘Groovy’
If you want to get CTOs in a lather, ask them which programming language they recommend to build an advanced Web site. Jon Williams, CTO of Flat World Knowledge, recently […]
The Application Incompleteness Theorem
When it was revealed in 1931, the world of mathematics and logic was shocked by Kurt Godels’ Incompleteness Theorem, which holds that there are certain statements in every axiomatic system […]
Research Note: Actian’s Strategy for Distributed Big Data
Actian CEO Steve Shine drives company growth to meet big data challenges. Under the leadership of CEO Steve Shine, Actian has become an aggressive acquirer of technology for data management, […]
How To Become Just Enough of A Software Company To Succeed
I’m told by people who would know that Jeff Bezos thinks of Amazon as a software company, not a retailer or an e-commerce company. I’m told by people who would […]
The Coming Crisis in IT Management
When I was in college I was fascinated by a book called The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology. When I was in college, I was fascinated by a book called […]