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Author Archives: Doug Black
Doug Black
Crowd-sourcing Algorithms to Beat Wall Street
July 29th, 2016 Comments Off on Crowd-sourcing Algorithms to Beat Wall Street
Looking to cash in on your algorithm expertise? Join the crowd. A three-year-old hedge fund investment company, Quantopian, which crowd-sources algorithms to guide its investing, has just received an infusion of $250 million to play with as it continues ...
Study: Corporate-“Shadow” IT Gap Puts Cloud-based Data in Peril
July 28th, 2016 Comments Off on Study: Corporate-“Shadow” IT Gap Puts Cloud-based Data in Peril
As corporate data – much of it sensitive – flies to the cloud in growing volume, a serious disconnect between corporate and “shadow” IT has developed in recent years, one that has resulted in data security practices often handled ...
The Third Age of Data and the Unfolding Scale-out World
July 28th, 2016 Comments Off on The Third Age of Data and the Unfolding Scale-out World
Welcome to the Third Age of Data, where an estimated 1 trillion sensors are embedded in a nearly limitless landscape of networked sources, from health monitoring devices to municipal water supplies. Data’s first age was a transaction-oriented world of ...
How GPU-Powered Analytics Improves Mail Delivery for USPS
July 27th, 2016 Comments Off on How GPU-Powered Analytics Improves Mail Delivery for USPS
When the United States Postal Service (USPS) set out to buy a system that would allow it to track the location of employees, vehicles, and individual pieces of mail in real time, an in-memory relational database was its first ...
New Flash from IBM Targets Unstructured Data Analytics
July 26th, 2016 Comments Off on New Flash from IBM Targets Unstructured Data Analytics
JBOF (“jay-boff”), or Just A Bunch of Flash, may sound like a pejorative acronym. But when industry analyst Randy Kerns, senior strategist at Evaluator Group, used it in reference to new flash storage technology announced today by IBM, he ...
9 Ways Retailers Are Using Big Data and Hadoop
July 26th, 2016 Comments Off on 9 Ways Retailers Are Using Big Data and Hadoop
The big data revolution is changing how business gets done in all industries. That includes the massive retail market, which drives $2.6 trillion in business in the U.S. and employs 42 million Americans. The use of advanced analytics and ...
Session Awareness: Overcoming Standalone Network Functions
July 25th, 2016 Comments Off on Session Awareness: Overcoming Standalone Network Functions
Lately, things have felt a bit like the 1990s. A hot new app had just been released and everyone was talking about it – but its reliability and performance left a lot to be desired. The difference is that ...
Cray and Deloitte Join Supercomputing with Security-as-a-Service
July 23rd, 2016 Comments Off on Cray and Deloitte Join Supercomputing with Security-as-a-Service
When cyber-criminals look at your network, what do they see? Providing the adversary's perspective on computing infrastructures they're intent on attacking is a core concept of a new "cyber reconnaissance" capability that combines the supercomputing of Cray Inc. and ...
A User Guide For Securing Docker Containers
July 14th, 2016 Comments Off on A User Guide For Securing Docker Containers
As important and prevalent Docker containers are today, they still pose a unique security risk for users. Containers simplify the distribution of software and allow greater sharing of resources on a computer system, which is great and well used ...
3D Flash Poised to Tower over the Storage Skyline
July 12th, 2016 Comments Off on 3D Flash Poised to Tower over the Storage Skyline
Three dimensions are better than two. I’ve read recently that the same forces that drove the amazing skylines of New York City upwards are operating in the opposite direction in hyper-dense London, driving a wave of underground home extensions ...