Transparency is one of those words that, I think, has jumped the shark. It’s become a buzzword, if you will. A word that has lost its original intention. The Enterprise embraced social media, and with that, it seemed every company boasted the hip new tenet of “transparency&...
By ChrisScottThis week I attended the MIL OSS-LANT (Military Open Source Software) working group. I enjoyed having my brain stretched a bit as I thought about the major transitions we have made in the past decade. Twenty years ago almost everything that DoD purchased was pure GOTS (Go...
Aaron Delp(@aarondelp) had me on the Episode #95 of the CloudCast as a special co-host with AnsibleWorks founder, Michael DeHaan(@laserllama). Michael is somewhat of a cult open source systems management hero if there is such a thing a she has developed the popular Linux provisioning t...
This guest post is by Punit Kulkarni. Punit is the Director of Marketing at Symphony Analytics and a marketing technology enthusiast. He has helped Fortune 500 retailers and brands in building their customer loyalty programs, direct marketing and business analytics. As a trusted co-mar...
Tampa, FL, August 07, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Tampa-based IDEAS4 just launched its new website featuring a portfolio of their work in websites, branding, advertising and print. It’s a big departure from its previous sites where they went into detail about each service. “Our site...
When I talk to ProjectLocker users, one of the most popular questions is whether they should use Subversion or Git. ProjectLocker supports both Subversion and Git, and you can use both types of repositories in your account if you want. At ProjectLocker, we use Git for some projects and...
By Kimberly KellyToday, Apache Hadoop is one of the most popular open source software frameworks for Big Data. There are many reasons for this, but key among them is the ability to process data in scalable ways. Hadoop can execute commands over data fast. What once was slow or even imp...
Toronto, Canada, August 03, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Callnovo (http://www.callnovo.com), a leading Chinese call center provider, announces today that they now have 3,000 call center agents in China. After more than eight years of overseas market development and more than 10 years of steady ...
TechViews: Sonic moves to cloud to utilize big data, Major roadblocks to mobile enterprise apps, Social media natives will change your business Welcome to TechViews We’d like to welcome our This W...
by Joseph Rickert Every month I look forward to getting my copy of AMSTATNEWS, the monthly magazine of the American Statistical Association, in the mail. This July, I was both pleased and bemused by ASA President Marie Davidian’s article Aren’t We Data Science?. I was pleased to see a ...
In an overview of several predictive analytics platforms (including SPSS, Oracle and SAS), Butler Analytics offers this 4.5/5 star review of Revolution R Enterprise: Real analysts use R – well it sounds a bit macho, but actually there is some truth in it. R is the most widely used, and...
Cloud computing: a mixture of risk and reward - but which is greater? Cloud Computing is a business decision, perhaps even before it is a technical problem to solve – after all, there needs to be a business-level understanding of the goals associated with such a technology move. For...
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Before I personally got involved as an advisor at 10Gen (home of MongoDB) two months ago, I had some wrong impressions. The first one was the name “document data model”. I somehow interpreted that as something to do with “documents” … Continue reading U...
I spent this last week in Budapest, thanks to Balabit, a Hungarian security software company, and fell in love with the city and its people. Budapest has an interesting mix of old world charm and new age coding: a vibrant … Continue reading →
This week I went to Portland, Oregon for the O’Reilly Open Source Convention. OSCON is one of my favorite conferences because of the quality and diversity of the talks. Usually when I go to an event I am too busy presenting, working our booth, or meeting with customers and partne...
If anyone has been reading the news lately you have probably noticed that some information security focused organizations are pretty bad at actual information security. From the NSA allowing a low level administrator to walk out with sensitive data (and … Continue reading →...
by Joseph Rickert Early on, Revolution Analytics realized that R is more than just a tool for statistical computing — it is also the culture that has grown up around the use of the tool. The R culture is open and inclusive, competitive but also nourishing. There is a strong sense of co...