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Expanso, a distributed data processing startup led by Google and Microsoft vets, raises $7.5M

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.” The technology, powered by open source software Expanso developed called Bacalhau , aims to help companies process data where it is being created, streamlining distributed big data processing systems. Expanso’s founding CTO Walid Baruni also worked at Amazon.

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Broadcom Software CTO: Charting a Course to Software Modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

By Andy Nallappan, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Software Business Operations, Broadcom Software. Broadcom Software CTO Andy Nallappan. from 2020 to 2027, fueled by increasing digitalization, the worldwide rise of the internet and mobile devices, and growing reliance on big data. Broadcom Software.

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Google and Hortonworks Team Up: HDP Now Part of Google Cloud

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Hortonworks'' Hadoop Data Platform (HDP) is now a supported feature on Google Cloud. Part of the solution utilizes Apache''s Ambari plugin, along with scripting developed by Google and Hortonworks, to enable easy provisioning. Jason Verge, "Hortonworks Becomes Official Google Cloud Feature". . By Charles Hall.

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Google Acquires Drone Maker Titan Aerospace

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Two examples: this year, Facebook acquired virtual reality firm Oculus in an effort to develop new communication lines, and Google purchased DeepMind, pushing into the artificial intelligence sphere. Google’s most recent acquisition came in mid-April; the search giant bought drone maker Titan Aerospace – for a currently undisclosed sum.

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Google Beats its own CAPTCHA

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Those tests happen to have a name, CAPTCHA – “Completely Automated Public turing tests to Tell Computers and Humans Apart” – and Google programmers have developed an algorithm that can solve them. That is, the technology can interpret the image into letters and numbers. Big Data CTO Cyber Security'

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Video of @GeoffreyaMoore on “Crossing the Chasm” In An Age of Big Data Analytics

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Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the web like deer on a freeway”. At this link and embedded below you can hear directly from a key thinker and shaper of big ideas that have influenced most all of us. This is not the model of Twitter/Facebook/Google. By Bob Gourley.

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Regarding Big Data, One Manager’s “Resistance” Is Another Manager’s “Caution”

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M att Turck has some interesting things to say about “big data” in “ Is Big Data Still a Thing? The 2016 Big Data Landscape).” Data intensive “digital native” companies (e.g., Google, Amazon, etc.) have been in the forefront because they’re already data-centric. How much will it cost?

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