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Who watches the watchers? Big Data goes unchecked

Politico reports: The National Security Agency might be tracking your phone calls. But private industry is prying far more deeply into your life.
Commercial data brokers know if you have diabetes. Your electric company can see what time you come home at night. And tracking companies can tell where you go on weekends by snapping photos of your car’s license plate […]

How WANdisco enables Big Data in geographically distributed …

There’s a lot of excitement around Hadoop, but at present only a portion of operational clusters are in production, due primarily to a lack of enterprise features such as disaster recovery and continuous availability. WANdisco chief marketing officer Jim Campigli and CTO Jagane Sundar stopped by theCUBE during SiliconANGLE’s BigDataSV meetup to discuss how their firm is helping to change […]

Compuware updates Big Data APM platform with enhanced Hadoop …

Compuware isn’t exactly the first name you would associate with open source Big Data technologies, but the mainframe software powerhouse is determined to change that as it diversifies beyond legacy computing into new growth areas. The latest version of the company’s application performance management (APM) solution offers enhanced support for Hadoop and NoSQL, and provides increased visibility into enterprise analytics […]

The future of big data: opensource v. proprietary |#BigDataSV …

In last week’s companion to SiliconANGLE’s #BigDataNYC, theCUBE broadcast live from Silicon Valley, highlighting the ongoing maturity of Big Data for 2014 and beyond. John Furrier welcomed theCUBE alumni Bruno Aziza and Rishi Yadev for one of the more interesting conversations centering on the method and business model that will further advance the adoption of Big Data in the Enterprise.Representing […]

Legacy outfit Syncsort at forefront of big data revolution …

A hopeful sign for large-scale adoption of Big Data technologies, this year’s #strataconf has attracted a number of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and executives, as well as the expected cadre of developers, interested in the new technologies that will facilitate Enterprise’s embrace of Big Data strategies.Joining Dave Vellante and John Furrier on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE was Josh Rogers, President of Syncsort. Syncsort, […]

Consumable Big Data : Cloudera repackages + adds Spark support …

Cloudera this week delivered on its October promise to provide a centralized enterprise analytics platform with a major portfolio overhaul that introduces three new offerings and support for the fast-growing Apache Spark project. Hailed as the next big thing in Big Data by SiliconANGLE founding CEO John Furrier, the framework executes queries up to 100 times faster than MapReduce and […]

Big data and disruption in health care — Tech News and Analysis

According to an article recently published in Forbes, the opportunity for disruption in the health care market is a trillion (with a T!) dollars. Or as recently cited on SiliconAngle,“As of today, 80 percent of medical data is unstructured but clinically relevant. If this data can be better leveraged, it could create more than $300 billion in value each year.”The […]

HP Vertica boss on Big Data and innovation | #HPDiscover …

In his latest appearance on theCUBE at last week’s Discover summit in Barcelona, Colin Mahony, VP and GM of HP Vertica, shared how the database maker fits into Hewlett-Packard’s analytics strategy.After being acquired by HP in March 2011, Vertica gained access to hardware, service expertise and channel resources that enabled it to expand into global markets, Mahoney tells hosts John […]

New VC Firm Data Collective Launches to Invest in Big Data with a …

New VC Firm Data Collective Launches to Invest in Big Data with a Big Partnership | PandoDaily

Sarah Lacy
Sarah Lacy is the founder and editor-in-chief of PandoDaily.

She is an award winning journalist and author of two critically acclaimed books, “Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0” (Gotham Books, May 2008) and […]