Apigee: If you are in enterprise IT you should check them out now

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In-Q-Tel just posted a press release on a recent strategic partnership and technology development agreement with a firm called Apigee. That statement alone is all the savvy technologist needs to know to start diving into Apigee. In-Q-Tel has a reputation for applying lots of focused thought into the firms they invest in and because of [...]

Is Bitcoin the new speculative market, Judge orders peace in Apple/Sammy trial and more

Here are today’s top tech news stories. Bitcoin, the underground currency of the Internet, is experiencing speculative growth - there have been a few things pushing up the value of the Bitcoin, including a drug purchasing version of eBay. There are now “High Yield Investment Programs” offering high rates of return, which may or may not be [...]

Strong Transformation Capabilities for Mission-Focused Application Integration

The T in ETL, or the “transform” stage of “extract, transform, load” data process, rarely gets the spotlight in the Big Data revolution, but it’s one of the most challenging and important elements in turning raw data into intelligence. Pulling entries from various logs, for example, is useless unless you transform the dates and times [...]

Platfora: Clarity From Big Data

The big data community has long been watching Platfora.  Now that Platfora has announced the general availability of their capability we can all see much more of the power of their well engineered solutions to serve missions. The video above gives some great use cases and drives home how disruptive they can be. Here is [...]

Nicira Launches: Will change the world of networking giants and enterprise IT

My friend Peter Thorp has a way of sensing great technologies and then helping teach others of the relevance of those to enterprise missions. He did that with amazing firms like Netscape and Opsware and has been key in teaching many of us about dozens of other incredible capabilities. For the last year he has [...]