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25 Best U.S. Cities for Jobs in the Recession Recovery

This month marks the six-year anniversary since the end of the Great Recession, the most severe economic downturn since the 1930s. Six years later, which American cities have sprung back to life and which cities have lingered? America’s Recession Rebound Cities The table below shows which cities have recovered most and least since the end […]

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Even Chocolate Needs Smart, Big Data – Vosges Haut-Chocolat Case Study

As published to SmartDataCollective How do you sell chipotle-accented chocolates and truffles with bourbon mash to those in the chocolate-loving populace who dream of pepper-laced confections and Kentucky sauced nuggets? You get smarter. The chocolate business, it turns out, is a lot like other conservative industries. Medical, construction, financial trading, and others are often reluctant […]

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Why the $24 Billion SMB Cloud Market Is So Red Hot

To raise its market share, Microsoft is making an exchange offer to small and medium businesses (SMBs) to give away their hardware in return for a cloud setup. The Economic Times reports a new three-month program exclusively launched for the India market. There, Microsoft is targeting organizations with fewer than 250 personal computers, offering them […]

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Biggest Cyber Attack in History. Cybersecurity Pioneer Narus Asks: “Are You Safe?”

It’s funny how things work. Earlier this week I was interviewing the team at Narus. The company, an independent subsidiary of Boeing and more about digital, less about massive bodies of steel,  is a pioneer in cybersecurity. Cybersecurity, the practices designed to protect networks, computers, programs and data from attack or damage. I was asking the […]

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#BigData – They Just Call It “Data” in Texas

Originally published on Technorati Big Data Texas Style Geographically located somewhat half-way between San Francisco’s apps and New York’s publishers is a company that helps pull it all together. Austin, TX-based, Pervasive Software, is a middle-ware provider. What Wikipedia calls, “software glue.” It’s what allows clients to invoke services across multiple databases. I met with Mike Hoskins, […]

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Study: Pentaho Delivers Big Data Integration, Analytics (No Data Scientist Required)

As written for Technorati Business Intelligence for Broad Audiences Big Data is exploding right now, but its complexity and size can make it challenging to harness all of what this information can offer. Pentaho Business Analytics is a data integration and business analytics platform that brings together IT and business users to easily access, integrate, visualize […]

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Making Data Cool: An Interview with Geoff Domoracki, CEO of DataWeek

Originally published on Technorati Anybody who’s anybody in and around the technology industry in Chicago knows aboutTechWeek. The mid-summer, week-long extravaganza has become a model of infusing visibility and notoriety to Chicago’s technology scene. Organizers of that event have created a new model: conferences that are more immersive, built around a sequence of “curriculum,” and […]

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Big Data without the Big Wait: An interview with Marius Moscovici, CEO of Metric Insights

Article first published as Big Data without the Big Wait: An interview with Marius Moscovici, CEO of Metric Insights on Technorati. Co-authored by Lillian Pierson “Data plus context equals insight,” that’s the mantra of business intelligence (BI) solution, Metric Insights. The company provides a self-service, collaboration-focused business intelligence platform that delivers insight from the combination […]