Gartner’s Hype Cycle: Big Data’s on the slippery slope Mike Wheatley | August 19thREAD MOREGartner has just released its annual Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, and it shows some interesting moves for two of the most important enterprise technologies – Big Data and the cloud. Organizations that make use of these technologies might therefore need to brace themselves as their […]
InstallationWhen the malware is originally run, it will to attempt to remove a previous version of itself (version 1.55 “backoff”). All associated files and processes are terminated. It will then attempt to open a pre-defined mutex to ensure it is not already running.The executable then proceeds to copy itself to the following location if it is discovered that it is […]
The Fake Stock MarketStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jul 10, 2014 – 06:46 AM GMTBy: John_RubinoFor the average person trying to decide how to feel about the economy, the single biggest data point is the stock market. When share prices are rising, the implicit message is that finance professionals — who, after all, dedicate their lives to understanding such things and […]
For the average person trying to decide how to feel about the economy, the single biggest data point is the stock market. When share prices are rising, the implicit message is that finance professionals — who, after all, dedicate their lives to understanding such things and should therefore know what’s happening — have decided that life is good and getting […]
Golf has never been an exact science. It’s a fuzzy game that many players spend their whole lives attempting to master. Some of that fuzziness, however, may come into focus thanks to a new app for iOS called Arccos. Using something co-founders Sal Syed and Ammad Faisal call “club-to-cloud technology,” Arccos gives golfers the data they need to make better, […]
How to secure a great job in big dataGet a grounding in basic statistics
In data analytics, everyone needs at least some formal training in statistical analysis. Degrees with some statistical component are highly valued, such as science or math, but that doesn’t mean it’s just scientists who are desirable in the big data space.
Anabel Gutierrez, lecturer of business […]
Kristine Andersen likes to blog, tweet, and trade stocks. And a lot of people like to follow her—more than 64,000 at last count. Pinpointing the number of followers is an inexact science, but the sheer size of Andersen’s figures rivals those of much better-known bloggers like Henry Blodget, who claims 77,000. Andersen is one of the more prolific bloggers […]
Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) has been on a tear lately, and is regularly setting new highs as it hovers round $41 for the first time since the dot-com days of 2000. MSFT stock is up almost 45% in the past year, double the 21% or so for the S&P 500 in the same period.As I wrote recently, one obvious catalyst for MSFT has […]
The technologies that fly under the banner of “big data” may be new, but the business strategies have a familiar look.A prime example is the announcement on Wednesday from Pivotal, the big data and cloud computing company, a joint venture of EMC and VMware, in which General Electric has a stake.Pivotal is introducing its “Big Data Suite,” a bundle of […]
The technologies that fly under the banner of “big data” may be new, but the business strategies have a familiar look.A prime example is the announcement on Wednesday from Pivotal, the big data and cloud computing company, a joint venture of EMC and VMware, in which General Electric has a stake.Pivotal is introducing its “Big Data Suite,” a bundle of […]
