Category: Small World

Cloudy Object Storage Mints Developer Currency

Having just been to VMWorld 2017 and getting pre-briefs for Strata Data NY coming up soon, I’ve noticed a few hot trends aiming to help foster cross-cloud, multi-cloud, hybrid operations. Among these are

  1. A focus on centralized management for both

I’m Going Fission

I just spent a couple of weeks in Boston at Red Hat Summit and OpenStack Summit.  Containers are clearly the big thing this year – Kubernetes, Openshift, etc. And increasingly, IT is learning how to take advantage of remote Management …

Playing with Neo4j version 3.0

I’ve been playing again with Neo4j now that v3 is out. And hacking through some ruby scripts to load some interesting data I have laying around (e.g. the database for this website which I’m mainly modeling as “(posts)<-(tags); (posts:articles)<-(publisher)”).

For …

Data Stream Mining with Cube

Time-series data analysis can be approached in two ways. Traditionally time-series data is aggregated into partitioned historical data bases, and then reported on at scheduled intervals. Commonly, reports delivered today cover data collected yesterday. A modern (and perhaps most relevant …

What is the Question?

The answer I’m sure is innovation.

Practically the first thing to do is figure out the questions to ask. Don’t stick to just questions that are hanging out there already needing to be answered, but create new questions that …

Why Didn’t We Already Find What We’re Looking For?

What we primarily look for in data is to make sense of it – find summaries and statistics to help inform analytical decision-making or discover patterns and stories creating new insights into the larger world behind the data.

This should …