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December 3, 2013

Challenges and Opportunities for Big Data. Interview with Mike Hoskins

by Roberto V. Zicari

“We are facing an imminent torrent of machine generated data, creating volumes that will break the back of conventional hardware and software architectures. It is no longer be feasible to move the data to the compute process – the compute process has to be moved to the data” –Mike Hoskins. On the topic, Challenges and […]

August 2, 2013

Big Data from Space: the “Herschel” telescope.

by Roberto V. Zicari

” One of the biggest challenges with any project of such a long duration is coping with change. There are many aspects to coping with change, including changes in requirements, changes in technology, vendor stability, changes in staffing and so on”–Jon Brumfitt. On May 14, 2009, the European Space Agency launched an Arianne 5 rocket […]

March 6, 2013

Acquiring Versant –Interview with Steve Shine.

by Roberto V. Zicari

“So the synergies in data management come not from how the systems connect but how the data is used to derive business value” –Steve Shine, On Dec. 21, 2012, Actian Corp. announced the completion of the transaction to buy Versant Corporation. I have interviewed Steve Shine, CEO and President, Actian Corporation. RVZ Q1. Why acquiring an […]