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Funding for startups soar 57%, highest since 2001

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Big Brother and the big data dividend

Data is often seen as difficult and nerdy; big data gleaned from sensors has Orwellian undertones of Big Brother. This week Microsoft sought to recast …

Big Data and Telecom Analytics Market: Business Case, Market Analysis &

IT Business Net The authors, thus expect the Big Data driven telecom analytics market to grow at a CAGR of nearly 50% between 2014 and 2019. By the end of 2019, …

Microsoft project is big data boom for West Des Moines

Microsoft project is big data boom for West Des Moines. Loading… Post to Facebook. Microsoft project is big data boom for West Des Moines on …

Webconference Education and skills on Data Science | rd-alliance.org

Education and skills on Data Science. Group content visibility: Use group …

5 Sherlock Holmes Quotes That Prove Genius for Data-Driven Decision Making

Sherlock Holmes believed in the necessity of data long before the big data hubbub, declaring data-driven decision making as increasingly beneficial.

Bias Bash: Big data or big brother?| Latest News Videos | Fox News

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Michael’s Arts and Crafts Announces Major Data Breach

This follows major data breaches at Target and Nieman Marcus Stores in the past few month. CEO Chuck Rubin says the attack may have scraped …

News Recap: More U.S. Adults Say They Experience Data Breaches | CSID

growing number of U.S. adults have experienced data breaches.

Insider Selling: Thomas Schodorf Sells 4500 Shares of Splunk Stock (SPLK)

Splunk logo Splunk (NASDAQ:SPLK) SVP Thomas Schodorf sold 4,500 shares of the stock on the open market in a transaction that occurred on …

More online Americans say they’ve experienced a personal data breach

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siliconANGLE Red Hat and Dell join forces again, this time for OpenStack

SiliconANGLE (blog) openstack Red Hat and Dell are joining forces once again to realize the promise of the open hybrid cloud, which the Linux distributor has been touting …

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Apr 11 - 18) » The OpenStack Blog

building public, private, and hybrid clouds, has nearly 350 new features to …

Red Hat Touts Virtual Containers as Next Advance in Cloud Computing | Cloud

Jarrett Neil Ridlinghafer Now containers, albeit in a digital form, are being touted as the next big thing in cloud computing. At the Red Hat Conference April 14-17 in San …

Linux Today - Ubuntu chases after Red Hat with OpenStack and Docker bundles

InfoWorld: With the release of Ubuntu 14.04 on Thursday, Canonical is attempting to further define how it stands out from enterprise-centric …

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Codero CEO, Emil Sayegh (Part 1) |

Sramana Mitra Cloud hosting, as companies scale, is moving from public cloud to hybrid cloud. More in this discussion. Sramana Mitra: Emil, tell us about Codero …

Software Developer Applango Announces Move To Stamford

Founded in 2012, Applango develops software that provides analytics and business intelligence for Enterprise SaaS (Software as a Service) …

3 of Benefits of Cloud Computing | Crafting Rebellion

Cloud computing refers to the utilization of space on the internet for various computing requirements. It allows easy access to shared information …

Survey Identifies Cloud Speed as the Primary Business Driver

… focused on the business and technical drivers and barriers for software-as-a-service … A modern, scalable architecture was recognized as the primary technical requirement for a cloud integration platform, and speed or time to …

Don’t Look for Azure To Be Built on OpenStack

If you were wondering if Microsoft Azure service would ever become an OpenStack cloud, it looks unlikely anytime soon based on statements by …

Business Dashboard Tool LivePlan Now Compatible with QuickBooks Online

LivePlan, the companys flagship product, is a SaaS (software as a service) solution for business planning and financial management. Palo Alto …

Factors to Look for When Choosing Top Cloud Computing Services - Shvoong

Cloud computing services include everything which involves delivering hosted services over the web. In cloud computing, all data resources, …

Moore’s law gives way to Bezos’s law

The future of cloud computing is the availability of more computing power at a much lower cost. bezos-law. photo: Gigaom Illustration/Steve Jurvetson.

Best- And Worst-Performing Cloud Computing Stocks April 11th To April 17th

Forbes The six highest performing cloud computing stocks year-to-date in the Cloud Computing Index are F5 Networks F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV), Akamai …

"OpenStack the Preferrred Way to Store (Big) Data"

This company is based in Paris with a North American office in Montreal, is an OpenStack company, and focuses on private and hybrid clouds as well …

Ultimate Typing Goes Into The Cloud, Offering Schools A More Efficient

DigitalJournal.com By taking advantage of the benefits of cloud computing, Ultimate Typing(tm) will be more easily implemented and used in the classroom, allowing typing …

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Codero CEO, Emil Sayegh (Part 2) |

Sramana Mitra Emil Sayegh: Fast forward to 2014, what we are seeing right now in the market is both of these models hitting a point where frankly they’re becoming …

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Bosch: Data Mining Engineer - Big Data Infrastructure - KDnuggets

The Data Mining Service Center at Bosch provides Data Mining and Big Data services to Bosch’s business units and plants. The center works in …

Big data takes on the kill chain - GovCon

Big data systems can correlate structured and unstructured data to paint a complete picture about an agency’s overall IT health and offer insight into …

Big Data and Analytics Trends | Software Technology Blog

In 2014 organizations focus has shifted from what is big data to what can I do with big data. They are actively researching and implementing various …

Big Data Firm VoltDB Raises $8M to Drive Sales & Marketing, Boost ‘Smart’

BostInno Bedford, Mass.-based big data company VoltDB has raised $8 million in Series B funding. The round was led by an unnamed “Silicon Valley luminary …

Internet of Things - Architectures of Jelly

That is certainly the way the hype is looking—billions of connected devices all generating information—no wonder some call it ‘big data’, although …

Big Data - Commonwealth of Virginia

which continues to grow at a rapid rate due to the Commonwealth’s …

Diyotta DI Suite is now Cloudera Enterprise 5 certified

"One of the key concerns the Hadoop user community experience is related to efficiently loading and transforming data within their Hadoop cluster …

OpenStack Icehouse cloud platform adds database service, better support for

V3.co.uk However, it does add new features such as a database service, improved support for Containers, and early support for Hadoop deployments on …

Evolutionary Computation in Data Science

Evolutionary computation (EC) methods are nature inspired optimization algorithms that have been successfully applied to many machine learning …

TechViews: Make Your Big Data Worth the Investment; The Top 5 Cloud

SYS-CON Media (press release) Big Data. Think your Big Data is valuable? This Wired article explains why your Big Data is worthless if you don’t bring it into the real world. Mobility.

WANdisco reports rise in first quarter bookings

WANdisco’s shares rose after the ‘big data’ software provider reported a 40 per cent increase in first quarter subscription bookings to 4.2m dollars.

Capturing Big Data in Social and Detection Systems: Market Opportunities

IT Business Net Every large corporation collects and maintains a huge amount of data associated with its customers including their preferences, purchases, habits, …

[1404.4140] Journey from Data Mining to Web Mining to Big Data - arXiv.org

… each of this method in brief and also provides their applications. It states the importance of mining big data today using fast and novel approaches.

Big Data : Overview - arXiv.org

traditional databases. The data is too big to be processed by a single machine.

Big data for poor students

Big data - high-volume, complex data sets that businesses use to analyze and predict consumer behavior - can provide teachers and companies with …

RDA co-sponsors CODATA Workshop on Big Data for International Science

The workshop is designed to provide a better understanding of the opportunities and challenges of ‘Big Data’ for international collaborative science …

Big data reporting is the most upcoming technology in the Industry

Big data is the most common word that is gaining huge buzz in the industry. Ideally it refers to datasets that are large enough and becomes too …

The rise of big data brings tremendous possibilities and frightening perils

Debates are raging about whether big data still holds the promise that was expected or whether it was just a big bust. The failure of the much-hyped …

New Market Research Report: Big Data Leaders: 1010data, Cloudera,

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Despite Mobile, Cloud and Big Data, People Are the Biggest Security

Infosecurity Magazine The Ponemon Institute today released the 2013 Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Analysis which reveals data breaches are often the result of poor …

Final status: Splunk and the Heartbleed vulnerability | Splunk Blogs

Dear Splunk users,We’re expecting this to be our final blog post about how we’re handling the Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160).

Recent Breaches Appear To Be Hitting Home With Consumers

Recent data breaches, including the one at Target that began a string of others, including at Neiman Marcus, plus the recently announced Heartbleed …

Insider Selling: Splunk CEO Unloads 20000 Shares of Stock (SPLK)

Splunk logo Splunk (NASDAQ:SPLK) CEO Godfrey Sullivan sold 20,000 shares of the stock on the open market in a transaction dated Wednesday, …

Reflections on a Splunk developer’s journey : Part 1 | Splunk Blogs

…that I was writing my first Splunk App. It was the openness and extensibility of the Splunk platform that attracted me to this pursuit in the first place, …

Mid Cap Recent Insider Selling: Zynga Inc (NASDAQ:ZNGA), Pandora Media Inc

eFinance Hub Splunk Inc (NASDAQ:SPLK) CFO David F. Conte unloaded 20,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, April 8th.

Stocks to Watch - Fairchild Semiconductor Intl Inc (NASDAQ:FCS), NetApp

Techsonian (press release) Splunk Inc (NASDAQ:SPLK) provider of the leading software platform for real-time operational intelligence, recently declared that the general …

Why Splunk Is a Good Buy for the Long Run

Splunk (SPLK) is one such company that provides operation intelligence software solution that comprises of analytics and security solutions at an …

This Week In Credit Card News—Free Annual Credit Scores, Another Massive

Forbes It may turn out to be one of the biggest data breaches in history. The federal government is investigating the criminal sale of Social Security numbers, …

After another data breach, Congress pressed to act

"In light of this and the numerous other large scale data breaches occurring on the heels of major breaches at Target and Neiman Marcus over the …

IT Providers Stew Over Big Data Privacy Regulation

However, with an onslaught of data breaches such as the recent hacking of the Target retail chain, consumers and their representatives in government …

Personal Information at High Risk with Heartbleed

Since then, the error went unchecked and virtually undetectable, opening up companies to massive data breaches. “On a scale of one to ten, this …

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Got BYOD? | Common Sense Media

District, and we have a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy in place.

Tech talk: Bring your own device

BYOD (bring your own device) is a growing trend for workers on the move - but what are the implications for their travel managers? Martin Ferguson …

Chrome: the great mobile equalizer

Those running a BYOD program will appreciate having a constant in play across all of these platforms. With Chrome as the approved browser, support …

How to Integrate Consumer, Business Apps in the Workplace

BYOD, the familiar acronym for bring your own device, means that not only do your devices come with you to work, but your applications come along …

New Challenges in Software Management

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Mirantis and Ericsson in One of the Largest OpenStack Software Deals in

David Mirantis, the number one pure-play OpenStack vendor, and Ericsson, a world leader in communications technology and services, entered into an …

Eight Western projects fueled by consortium

… the high-performance IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputers and cloud computing and agile computing platforms that are unlike any others in Canada.

Cumulus Global Receives Pacesetter Award from the Boston Business Journal

DigitalJournal.com Falcon thanked the entire Cumulus Global team for their efforts, referring to a team, “whose evangelical zeal for all things cloud computing is always …

Cloud and mobile: Essential things to keep in mind…

With the evolution of mobile devices and cloud computing, business solutions can meet new possibilities. Having access to the new capabilities of the …

6WIND Announces Open vSwitch Acceleration for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

IT Business Net 6WIND, a high-performance software company, today announced an accelerated Open vSwitch module within its 6WINDGate packet processing …

Changes for importing translations to OpenStack - Blogger

Most OpenStack projects send after each commit updated files for translation to transifex. Also, every morning any translated files get merged back to …

Icehouse: New OpenStack cloud arrives | Union Square Ventures

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China Digital, Beijing Gehua form partnership for cloud TV

For its part, China Digital TV says it will help Gehua build and improve its full media cloud computing platform. This will see the two companies attempt …

Managing Risk and Security in Outsourcing IT Services

With cloud computing quickly becoming a standard in today’s IT environments, many security experts are raising concerns regarding security and …

On Point: Simply Services For Your Business

Lenovo subsidiary and leader in workspace aggregation computing, Stoneware Inc. has introduced a software-as-a-service hosted version of its … cross-platform, locally executing PC container and a core component of the M5 …

Bank of China, IBM, and Fundtech Receive Award for Best Corporate Payments

MarketWatch The award was given for the bank’s implementation of its Global Unified Payment Platform. In September … Fundtech offers its software through a traditional software license and a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) contract. Thousands …

Transplace Wins Diamond Foods

According to Transplace, Diamond Foods will expand its use of its software-as-a-service transportation management systems. Financial impact of the …

Campaign Monitor raises $250 million in funding

Campaign Monitor is a software-as-a-service based e-mail marketing … as we continue to build a world-class email marketing platform and invest in …

Planet DDS(tm) Successfully Completes Surescripts’ e-Prescribing

DigitalJournal.com “Now that DoseSpot’s dental specific e-Prescribing platform is integrated with … “Seamless integration with dental software solutions is critical to keep a … develops, hosts, and supports software as a service (SaaS) applications for …

How to avoid a HealthCare.gov fiasco in your cloud

Last week, Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the U.S. Health and Human Services Dept. and the public face of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare), …

Vtesse Cloud Bandwidth Delivers High Speed Networks in Just 5 Days

… “Cloud Bandwidth” is designed to give networks the flexibility to keep pace with the ever-changing workload demands of the Cloud computing world.

Front Desk Partners With School of Rock to Bring Mobile-First Business

Consumer Electronics Net Front Desk is a rapidly growing software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that provides cloud-based business management tools to the personal services …

Linode Enters High-Performance Cloud Hosting Market with SSD, RAM Updates

Are SSD storage, gobs of memory and more CPU power enough for a smaller player in the cloud computing industry to unseat the likes of Rackspace …

Enterprise who? Google says little about Apps, business cloud services in

ITworld.com By Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service | Enterprise Software. April 17, 2014, 6:23 … tool and the App Engine PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) offering.

Icehouse Release Makes It Easier to Build and Deploy Applications with

Voice of the User Reflected in New Features of OpenStack Icehouse Release. Rolling upgrades, federated identity and tighter platform integration …

Security and Cloud Computing at SMB Crossroads

Cloud computing may be the marquee player in IT services, but when it comes to giving business leaders the cold sweats, security still steals the show …

Altamira announces partnership with GMU Engineering School

Altamira is a leader in data science and in building big data and cloud computing technology, from the foundational layer to the user experience …

8 Ways To Build And Use The New Breed Of Data-Driven Applications

Software-as-a-Service and cloud computing has been transformational for the software industry, but compared to what is coming next, you ain’t seen …

8 Ways To Build And Use The New Breed Of Data-Driven Applications

Software-as-a-Service and cloud computing has been transformational for the software industry, but compared to what is coming next, you ain’t seen …

Microsoft Flexes Big Data Muscle With SQL Server Update

The software giant recently rolled out a trio of new big data products that it said will … Also new is Analytics Platform System (APS), an appliance Microsoft … its workloads in the Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud, Nadella said.

Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance X4-2 lowers software configuration errors

… as a Service (IaaS) to Database as a Service (DBaaS) with features such as … Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance Controller software automates the …

Bright House Networks Deploys Cisco Network Convergence System to Offer

Wall Street Journal … as hosted voice, call center, application and infrastructure-as-a-service. … which embraces and extends software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) as part of an Cisco Evolved Services Platform, …

OpenStack’s French Connection: eNovance

One of the few services available for implementing OpenStack clouds is eNovance, a major contributor to the OpenStack project. Like other major …

OpenStack Icehouse: The cloud just got that much cooler | SiliconANGLE

origin_6997620763 OpenStack has officially released the latest distribution of its cloud computing framework, dubbed as Icehouse, focusing mainly on …

Identifying Innovations in Storage Technology

Cloud computing. In the world of information technology, these are just three of the hottest trends today. While each offers transformative business …

Unbounded Robotics launches robot platform for education, research

IDG News Service - If you fear the rise of robots, the latest humanoid-style machine has an “emergency stop to prevent robot apocalypse.”.

New Challenges in Software Management

Virtualized environments, cloud-based services

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Apache Hadoop 2.4.0 | Java Code Geeks

The Apache community has voted to release Apache Hadoop 2.4.0, so the new release is now available and consists of important improvements.

Big data and more | I, Science

Themes from the last fortnight have been big data, divestment from fossil fuels and high air pollution. Big data revolution. Big data is the most …

KDnuggets 14:n09: Top LinkedIn Groups in 2014; Big Data Vendor Analysis;

Gregory Piatetsky Latest analytics, data mining, and data science stories, including Features, Opinions, Software, News, Webcasts, Courses, Meetings, Jobs, Academic …

What We’re Watching: BUSINESS TAXES, BIG DATA, FEDERAL CONTRACTING -

The Obama administration is in the late stages of its review of the implications of big data for privacy, the economy and public policy writes Senior …

Microsoft Reveals Big Data Strategy

Microsoft also announced its Analytics Platform System (APS), which it described as a “big data in a box” appliance that unifies SQL Server and …

Is Big Data Changing Your Marketing?

You’ve probably been hearing all the pundits talk about Big Data. … The way to be ready for Big Data is to start making marketing decisions with Little …

Data Science Architect, Enterprise Data Solutions job in New York, New York

As part of that mission, the Information Systems department has initiated a data science group to harness the power of data by leveraging the patient …

Big Data Quality Metrics

Big data applications and their associated proprietary, high-performance data stores arrived on the scene a few years ago. With promises of incredibly …

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Google Sales Miss Underscores Challenges of Mobile Transition

Google Inc. (GOOG:US) isn’t immune to setbacks caused by the global shift to mobile computing. Costs are rising and Google said yesterday that …

Enterprise Wearables Will Avoid BYOD Pitfalls

The bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend has been successful in many cases, fueled by the reality that something is lacking in the general-purpose …

The perils of BYOD: Security implications and how to combat them

… which has come to be known as bring your own device (BYOD). This brings up some significant implications for security and data management, …

Observable Networks Launches Cloud-Based Network Security Service

"For many companies, unmanaged endpoints like BYOD, copy machines, video cameras, and building controls are increasingly used as gateways for …

Insight IT Blog Four tips for successfully managing BYOD - Insight IT Blog

You’ve probably heard a lot about Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) in recent months. You may even have been thinking of rolling out a programme …

A “genius” approach to internal communications in a BYOD world | LinkedIn

John’s session, he talked about Deutsche Bank’s transition to BYOD.

Demand for BYOD access control leads to NAC resurgence

Many next-gen NAC tools