Zettaset Adds Hadoop Security Layer
| February 22ndWho Cares if a Toilet Maker Has More Data Than the Library of Congress? [Infographic]
| February 21stThe Library of Congress is so often used to compare how much more data we produce than could ever be stored in a building with seemingly endless shelves filled with books. It's an analogy that is used to show...»
Big Data Partnership Aims to Combat Hadoop “Confusion”
| February 21stStalwart enterprise data warehouse vendor Teradata is partnering with Hadoop start-up Hortonworks to improve integration between the two technologies and, as Teradata puts it, to reduce the “confusion” created by the nascent but growing ecosystem of...»
Salesforce.com Improves Its Facebook Connection. Where Are the Big Service Providers?
| February 21stLast year, Salesforce.com introduced the Force.com Facebook Tool Kit. It allowed a Salesforce.com user to pull in data from Facebook and start using the Facebook Graph API. It had the capability to read...»
Hortonworks Announces Partnership with Teradata
| February 21stToday Apache Hadoop services/support vendor Hortonworks and data warehousing vendor Teradata announced a partnership. The companies will work together to help customers best determine how to use Apache Hadoop. It's not as large a deal as the one...»


Moving to the ‘Why Era’
| February 21stWell, the Gartner event went well and I actually got to tell the story about the ‘what era’ expending it into the ‘why era’ and the ‘what if’ era. Read on if you’re interested and if you
...»CIO Watch Out: Do IT Service Providers Understand the New Cloud Economy?
| February 20thGartner Research Analyst Dennis Gaughan recently gave a talk about the major IT vendors that has some great nuggets for the CIO trying to make sense of the tactics employed by IBM, SAP, Oracle and Microsoft. A...»
Basecamp Goes Back to the Basics with a New, Cleaner UI
| February 16th37 Signals Founder Jason Fried previewed a redesign today for Basecamp that has three things in mind:
- Speed
- Big Picture
- Focus
Hortonworks Quietly Shuffles Its Management Team
| February 16thThis morning Hortonworks announced its training and certification program. What it didn't announce that is that it has quietly shuffled its management team, a fact that's reflected on its website. The biggest change, as ...»
Rackspace Acquires SharePoint Services Firm
| February 16thCloud hosting provider Rackspace announced today that it has acquired Sharepoint 911, a firm dedicated to providing services for Microsoft SharePoint. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. This acquisition will give Rackspace more credibility in...»
How Predictive Analytics is Changing Healthcare
| February 16thHealthcare in the U.S. is undergoing a transformation. New legislation such as Affordable Health Care for America Act along with new policies coming from private insurers are mandating new approaches to preventable hospitalizations. Accountable care,...»


Weekly Roundup! Friday February 17, 2012
| February 17thWelcome to the Infocus Weekly Roundup for the week ending Friday February 17, 2012
This Week, Frank Coleman speaks on the truth and its many derivatives.
Choong Keng Leong talks about the power of leveraging Virtualization as a tool

