Summary At its AWS re:Invent conference in November 2012, Amazon presented a compelling story about how it intends to permanently alter the enterprise computing landscape generally and infrastructure services specifically. Executives from Amazon were clear that they had no intention of mimicking the business models of traditional enterprise service providers. Rather they intend to disrupt the current order ...

At the intersection of medicine and computer science, researchers look for clinically useful correlations amid mountains of information. With the recent launch of MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, MIT News examines research with the potential to reshape medicine and health care through new scientific knowledge, novel treatments and products, better management of medical data, and improvem ...

The Big Data Infra for Enterprises – Making Hadoop Secure for Enterprises session was probably my 4th or 5th attendance to BigDataCloud meetup hosted by DJ and Jeeta Das. Time is luxury and if you login to meetup.com, several meetups with names that generate significant interest crop up. I am sure all agree with me. However, attending BigDataCloud meetup is time well invested. Few days ago I had spoken to J ...

Research scientists, companies launching new products, and even governments are enthused about the potential of Big Data. Whether you buy into the idea that Big Data is something new and novel or just the latest term to reference new kinds of analytics, it is clear that innovators around the world are already delivering on new advances. Yet, at the same time that the tech and research communities are applau ...

When, on a summer Sunday morning in 1987, three hundred thousand people crammed onto the central span of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, they came perilously close to participating in the largest accident in American history. The bridge's engineers had made copious calculations and had designed it to sway nearly 28 feet and shoulder the burden of hundreds of vehicles. But nobody had ever predicted that ...

Guess who benefits when two industry giants compete with each other offering exactly the same set of services? It is RightScale! While the Cloud ecosystem is still recovering from the euphoria of witnessing Microsoft and Google launch IaaS, RightScale is busy porting their ServerTemplates to both the Public Clouds. They are in an enviable position where every new IaaS provider wants to be a part of their pl ...

Big Data is the result of practically everything in the world being monitored and measured, creating data faster than the available technologies can store, process or manage it. Since it is a lot more intuitive to represent information as a “file” than a relational object, there has been a surge of unstructured data, making up as much as 80% of new data we must manage. Organizations are struggling to manage ...

Tomorrow is my birthday — always an opportunity for reflection, but especially this time. For several weeks now, I've been thinking about what I've learned during the past six decades that really matters. Here's a first pass: 1. The more we know about ourselves, the more power we have to behave better. Humility is underrated. We each have an infinite capacity for self-deception — countless unconscious ways ...

Social media analytics and tracking can be very time-consuming and expensive. You’ll find quite a few smartsocial media monitoring tools, but what if you can’t afford them? That’s why many social media marketers and power users are in constant search of free, efficient alternatives. Here, we’ll share a few ready-made spreadsheets you can copy (navigate File + Make a copy) and use for social media analytics. ...