Context for the enterprise technologist
Splunk Live DC will be held Tuesday 15 May 2012 at the Ronald Reagan center in downtown DC. This will be a great event to exchange lessons learned on the use of Splunk capabilities for Big Data analysis. Lessons learned and use cases on government related topics will be a key feature. The agenda includes [...]
There are many great use cases for Apache Hadoop, the open source framework for scalable, reliable, and distributed computing on commodity hardware built around Hadoop Distributed File System and MapReduce, such as delivering search engine results, sequencing genomes, and indexing entire libraries of text, but the Million Monkeys Project by Jesse Anderson may be the easiest [...]
Yesterday, SAP released a list of “Top 50 #BigData Twitter Influencers” on their blog and included CTOvision editor Bob Gourley. The list was aimed at identifying who to follow for “the latest trends, news and opinions” on Big Data, as well as to identify the figures shaping the discussion and the evolution of field. The list [...]
The Analysis Intelligence site provides open source analysis and information on a variety of topics based on the the temporal analytic technology and intelligence analysis tools of Recorded Future. Shortly after the release of 175 pages of documents from the Combatting Terrorism Center (CTC) a very interesting assessment was posted on the site. This assessment [...]
CTOlabs.com, a subsidiary of the technology research, consulting and services firm Crucial Point LLC and a peer site of CTOvision.com, has just published a white paper providing an overview of Datameer’s Big Data Solutions. This paper, titled “Datameer’s User-Focused Big Data Solutions” provides context on Big Data with a special emphasis how Datameer is able to empower users. [...]
Casey Coleman and the IT department of the General Services Administration are making huge strides forward. Since 2005, the IT department at GSA has completely reinvented itself as an agile, holistic enterprise embracing technological innovation and change. Casey Coleman, CIO of GSA, delivered an excellent story of the transformation of GSA from a stodgy, wirebound [...]
There is no excuse for the abuses we are learning about at GSA. We should all be bothered by the waste, fraud and abuse and I hope the government moves fast to correct the failures of leadership evident in these problems. Something else should bother us. The bad apples at GSA who either conducted these [...]
Every technologist I know has been working to learn more about Hadoop. I bet you are already somewhat familiar with some of the neat use-cases of this technological framework. But let me ask, wouldn’t you like to be able to express what Hadoop is in a clear, succinct way? Would you like to be able [...]
