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Q&A With a MongoDB CTO

When it comes to database companies, few have had as good a run as MongoDB over the past year. With an IPO last fall and a cloud business that's booming, the New York City firm is flying high. This week at the MongoDB Wo Read more…

MongoDB Fleshes Out Mobile and Cloud Strategies

As its name implies, MongoDB likes to do big things. But with today's unveiling of MongoDB Mobile at MongoDB World in New York City, the company is delivering a diminutive database that runs on mobile devices. It also an Read more…

Monetizing Services in Digital Time with AI and Machine Learning

The world we live in continues to accelerate its frantic pace. We are inundated with emails, chats, texts, ads, videos and calls, all clamoring for our attention, often across multiple channels at the same time. In fact, Read more…

African Hospitals Go Digital with NoSQL and Mobile Tech

In many parts of Africa, patient health records are still a paper-based affair, which greatly hinders the capability of public health officials to track the spread of diseases like Ebola, let alone allow a nurse to acces Read more…

How Kafka Helped Rabobank Modernize Alerting System

Customers of Rabobank now receive alerts on bank account activity in a matter of seconds, as opposed to the hours it would take with its existing transactional platform, and it's all because of the speed and simplicity o Read more…

MapD Partners on Network Analytics Platform

High-flying analytics software vendor MapD Technologies is partnering with Canadian mobile data vendor Tutela Technologies on an analytics platform that provides real-time metrics on mobile network performance and device Read more…

Couchbase Eyes IoT with Mobile NoSQL Database

Couchbase sees the new mobile NoSQL database it rolled out yesterday giving developers powerful new tools for building applications that store and process large amounts of data on smartphones, tablets, and other devices Read more…

IBM Issues Challenge to Make Watson Mobile

Ever since Watson proved its mettle on the Jeopardy quiz show nearly three years ago, IBM has been actively working to commercialize the cognitive computing technology. Having just launched the IBM Watson Group as a separate unit inside of IBM last month, Big Blue now wants to put the power of Watson in the palm of your hand. Read more…

Big Data’s Role in Civilization 3.0

If you've suspected that big data and mobile technologies have put us on the cusp of a revolutionary period for humanity, one marked by the merging of physical and digital worlds and a renewed focus on individuals and their relationship with businesses via data, then you've hit on what TIBCO CEO Vivek Ranadivé calls Civilization 3.0 and what Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs calls the Digital Sixth Sense. Read more…

A Data Commons for the Developing World

The World Economic Forum released a report detailing the benefits of harnessing mobile data from developing nations to create a "data commons" that will allow governments to use data to better understand the needs and patterns.... Read more…

TRUSTe CEO Addresses the New Privacy Ecosystem

The phrase "big data" and privacy are increasingly being seen in tandem as more advocacy groups are calling foul about analytics and data gathering practices. We chat with TRUSTe CEO, Chris Babel to get to the heart of what has changed as data has grown.... Read more…

Old Dogs Learn New BI Tricks

When a company has the word "micro" in their name, you know they've got some history. Unlike the vast wave of software company deaths caused by a souring economy and rapid technological evolution, those that emerged from the 90s until now have stayed afloat doing just what MicroStrategy has done... Read more…

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