10 Amazing Data Analytics Platforms Everyone Should Know About

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The past few years has seen an explosion in the number of platforms available for big data analytical tasks. The open source Hadoop framework is free to use, but very technical to set up and not specialized towards any particular job or industry. To use it in your business, you need a “platform” to operate it from.read more

Should we train more students to be hackers?

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Chaitu Dandu is a 16-year-old computer hacker. But he isn’t after your passwords, social security number or credit card information. Neither were the hundreds of other young hackers who converged on a snowy Brown University earlier this month for Hack@Brown, a 24-hour “hackathon.” Dandu is part of a growing trend of high school kids entering […]
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MapR’s new Hadoop distro brings ‘big and fast’ data to the enterprise

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Open source Hadoop vendor MapR Technologies Inc. is expanding the functionality of its Big Data platform with the release of MapR 4.1, with the headline feature being new table replication features designed to extend access to “big and fast” data. … Continue reading →

Internet Inventor Speaks Out On FCC and Free and Open Internet

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LIGHTNING RELEASES (2/17/2015) – Net Neutrality is a myth because there still exists the question about the true nature of intellectual property rights regarding the Internet . The determination of the Internet is not clear . It appears Federal Government owned which is now considering using it as a public utility to be distributed by […]

Nadine Burke Harris: How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime

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Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where those who’ve experienced high levels of trauma are at triple the risk for heart disease and lung cancer. An impassioned plea for pediatric medicine to confront the prevention and treatment of trauma, head-on.

2nd Sales Call “No-Shows” – Why prospects break their commitment

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Sales Question: "I’m having issues with prospects not answering for our scheduled phone call. We have discussed initial information and because of the complexity of our services a follow up call is usually necessary. The number of people that do not answer the phone for that scheduled call is ridiculously high to me, any tips in fixing this?"

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