News, analysis and context on enterprise technology for the CTO
[Editor's note: this analysis predates any official announcements by NASA] Recently, some news of a NASA hack-and-dump passed my twitter deck. I decided after watching a few of my friends re-tweet the news that it might be worth checking out. At least I'd see if I could perform some password analysis on any dumped credentials, or even test out the new Crucialpoint Cloudera Hadoop password cracker on any leftover hashes. What follows is a … [Read more...]
Okay Google, we get it. You make some really great products. But what's the deal with Google+? The service is seems to aspire to be mix between Facebook and Twitter, yet is lacking the critical differentiators that both of Facebook and Twitter offer. Facebook and Twitter have become huge for a few reasons. The first, is a low low barrier to entry. The second, is the ease of integration for Facebook/Twitter with each other - and the number of ways to … [Read more...]
Since @BobGourley won't send me to CES, I have to constantly monitor my Twitter feed and all of the technology sites. But, we have curated what we believe are the top stories (and will keep updating) to provide you with what you need to know about CES 2012. CES is getting smaller and less important - but that does not mean I'm going to ignore it. The absence of Apple's real presence is (not their 250 skulking ninja scouts) means that Android … [Read more...]
Editor’s note: We have asked each of our researchers to pull together considerations meant to help in your planning for 2012. We solicit your feedback on all these predictive posts. bg In 2011, we had some really great technology advances – many were mobile-centric, but did not end there. The mobile world continued to explode in 2011 – with exponential smartphone, app and tablet growth. However, this world continues to fracture as every … [Read more...]
We all know how much data is exploding, but it is important to note that much of that data is duplicated (or re-duplicated). De-duplication systems are key, and provide valuable services, but they cannot be the end-game data management system. Many services (such as data mining) also require access and copies of enterprise data, they are often duplicated to ensure that they do not touch the functional data, but this requires even more storage … [Read more...]
If you are working on Big Data projects in or around the federal space a resource you will want to engage with (if you have not already) is the Washington DC Area Hadoop Users Group (Hadoop-DC). This is a group of user-practitioners and enthusiasts who meet to exchange lessons learned, discuss emerging technologies and network to strengthen the emerging Big Data community in DC. The group is coordinated by three community-minded technology … [Read more...]
A social movement with a hashtag in its name is obviously heavily reliant on technology. Here are a few technologies and approaches that Occupy Wall Street used to expand rapidly. Mesh networks: localized Internets, set up for rapid and secure internal communication. The People's Skype, a distributed voice and voting system that enables the peculiar General Assembly voting system to function by linking different voice accounts to a general PA … [Read more...]
WayIn.com is a new mobile engagement service developed by Scott McNealy, founder of Sun Microsystems. Utilizing the free Wayin app on their mobile devices, users post images and questions that will spark humorous, passionate and lively debate among the global Wayin community. As soon as a Wayin user posts content, he or she will receive an instant pulse of other people's sentiment about an entertaining topic. Wayin allows users around the world to … [Read more...]
What could you do if you had access to all of twitter all at once? What if you combined that with 75 million other data feeds? And combined it with an easy-to-use-tool and impressive visuals? What if it were a service software? That’s exactly what the Social Media Command Center from InTTENSITY is. It’s your social media and Internet war room -- replete with maps, calenders, lists of events and people. Its primary purpose: to allow users to … [Read more...]
On Monday, December 5, Bob Gourley went on the Enterprise CIO Forum to explain Big Data and why it matters. First, he defined Big Data simply as the data your organization cannot currently analyze. Though some technologists give more precise definitions, this sums up the challenge enterprises now face. If you can deal with all of your data now, you don't have a Big Data problem, but as soon as you have more data than you can effectively manage to finding … [Read more...]