SAP and Rackspace jump on the Cloud Foundry bandwagon
SAP’s participation gives Cloud Foundry more enterprise cred while Rackspace’s entry could ease IaaS-PaaS confusion between OpenStack and Cloud Foundry.
Top techies tout their top tech tools for webscale computing
Developers love the latest and greatest tooling. Whether it’s Sawzall, a Google language that bridges declarative and procedural worlds. Or Kafka, a real-time framework for managing data streams. Here are four or five tools that deserve a look.
Coffee & Empathy: Why data without a soul is meaningless
As we move towards a quantified society, one shaped by data, we start to dismiss things that are unquantified. Empathy, emotion and storytelling — these are as much a part of business as they are of life. Here is why.
The week in cloud: reports of a spy cloud from Amazon and lotsa outages
Google Drive and LinkedIn suffered snafus this week; and Amazon will reportedly build a not-so-secret cloud for the Central Intelligence Agency.
5 ways big data is going to blow your mind and change your world
Call it whatever you want — big data, data science, data intelligence — but be prepared to have your mind blown. Imagination and technology are on a collision course that will change the world in profound ways.
How closely knit design and engineering teams put Pinterest on a rocket ship
For companies in Silicon Valley who want to prioritize design, the real question is how to do it while also shipping engineering products to market. At Pinterest, the designers and engineers are vocal that you can, in fact, do both.
Big data needs people, leaders and real-time analytics: A Structure:Data 2013 recap
A few trends emerged in more than 30 talks at this year’s GigaOM Structure:Data conference in New York on March 20-21. The big one: people play a crucial part in the big data equation.
At Eventbrite, the challenge is with realtime data
For a company like Eventbrite, which manages ticket sales and audiences for events across the world, keeping up with the constant flow of data and information is a challenge.