The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news section is below, and you can read the full February edition (with highlights from this blog and community events) online. You can subscribe to the Revolution Newsletter to get it monthly via email.
Case study: Real-Time Marketing Analytics. Online advertising technology company Exelate uses predictive models to improve their customer's marketing campaigns with 3-5 times better lift. Read how Exelate uses Revolution R Enterprise and IBM PureData Systems for Analytics to model terabytes of data and generate hundreds of millions of scores every day in our latest case study.
Revolution Analytics in the News: CEO David Rich talks about the Big Data business landcape with Forbes, and David Smith talks to InformationWeek about how to beat the Big Data disconnect.
Revolution Analytics is Hiring! To meet the rapidly growing enterprise demand for R-based predictive analytics solutions, we're looking to hire dedicated data scientists, engineers, consultants, trainers and sales and marketing personnel. To join our innovative and fast-growing company at the forefront of predictive analytics, take a look at the career opportunities available at www.revolutionanalytics.com/careers.
Revolution Analytics at O'Reilly Strata. If you're attending the Strata Making Data Work Conference Feb 26-28 in Santa Clara CA, be sure to visit booth 618 to see how Revolution R Enterprise works with Hadoop, and for your free copy of Big Data, Big Analytics signed by the authors (while supplies last).
Video Chat on Big Data and Analytics. On February 20 at 10AM Pacific Time, Revolution Analytics VP of Marketing and Community David Smith will join panelists from IBM, RedMonk, Trident Marketing and One Tree for an online chat on big data, analytics, and expert integrated systems. Details on how to join the live Google Hangout or catch the video replay can be found at the IBM Expert Integrated Systems blog.
Video: Introduction to Data Mining with R. Our most recent webinar was a record-setter, with more than 2000 enthusiasts signed up to learn how to mine big data with Revolution R Enterprise. If you missed it, a video replay of the webinar is now available.
Get Started with R and Hadoop. Learn how to use Revolution R Enterprise in big-data environments with Hadoop in hands-on training from Jeffrey Breen (Think Big Analytics), Feb 25 in Palo Alto, CA and March 14 in Boston, MA. Jeffrey explained the core technology concepts of Hadoop in our recent webinar Using R and Hadoop, now available for on-demand replay.
New to Revolution R Enterprise? Learn how Revolution R Enterprise adds power, productivity and enterprise readiness to open-source R in our free webinar "100% R and More" on March 14.
Be Counted in Rexer's Data Mining Survey. Since 2007, Rexer Analytics has been surveying data miners and analytic professionals on their software choices. Help keep R at the #1 spot by taking the 2013 Rexer Data Miner Survey (use access code RV8V2).
Vendor Insight: Revolution Analytics. Analyst firm MWD Advisors has just completed their profile of Revolution Analytics: "a leading commercial open source vendor of the R language". Download the PDF report: On the Radar: Revolution Analytics.
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“Open source has always provided a number of benefits, including easing adoption costs, propagating a better understanding of the technology, and allowing for faster evolution and commercialization of products and services based on it,” noted Terry Woloszyn, Founder & CEO, Leeward Security Ltd., in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “This is clearly evident with the OpenStack and CloudStack,” Woloszyn continued, “and others that have been quickly commercialized as...May. 23, 2013 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,337
SYS-CON Events announced today that OpenStack will exhibit at SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York. OpenStack software controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed by a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering their users to provision resources through a web interface.
OpenStack powers some of the most widely-used SaaS app...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Wowrack will exhibit at SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Wowrack’s core expertise lies in high-availability Private and Public Cloud IaaS Hosting Solutions. Wowrack provides a true Hybrid service – where business release all IT management and hardware provisioning – taking the data center and server system administrative headaches off our customer’s shoulders. ...
Many have heard of OAuth but are unsure of how it might apply to their business.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software, will describe how OAuth can be used to facilitate certain business models and simplify the sharing of private data.
Alistair Farquharson is a visionary industry veteran focused on using disruptive technologies to drive business growth and improve efficiency and agility within organizations. As the CTO of SOA Software A...
“Cloud has everything to do with what has happened with Big Data,” explained Jason Deck, Director of Strategic Alliances at Logicworks, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Big Data doesn’t exist in its easily accessible way without cloud. From reduced startup costs, to cheap storage, to fast processing, to adequate security, to the easy incorporation of third-party analytics tools, cloud made Big Data accessible to customers of all sizes, with all different bud...
SYS-CON Events announced today that nfina Technologies, a provider of highly reliable cloud server products, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
nfina Technologies develops, manufactures, and markets highly reliable cloud server products, designed to solve the most demanding data center requirements in mission-critical cloud applications. Nfina’s staff has decades of experience in co...
“Social, mobile, analytics and cloud can’t be looked at as distinct technology trends; they are facets of the same movement and an everyday reality for consumers and businesses alike,” said Craig Sowell, IBM VP of SmartCloud Marketing, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “This means that businesses need to start looking at trends as one: cloud is the delivery, analytics is the unique insight, social is a shareable service, and mobile is the ubiquitous access.”
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In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Dave Eichorn, Global Data Center Practice Head at Zensar, will share a case study describing how a utility services company handled the migration of its Microsoft platform to the cloud. Challenged with the time-consuming task of opening operations out of temporary offices, this company struggled with the need to simultaneously access data that was accumulated from a vast amount of data-intensive jobs. Zensar migrated the company’s application ...
Organizations across the world are increasingly starting to see the benefits of moving more and more services to the cloud. The focus on the cost-saving potential of cloud is rapidly shifting to completely transforming the business with cloud. As organizations are investing enormous sums on technology they are starting to realize that in order to maximize the return on investment and accelerate the business transformation process the first area of focus should be people. By ensuring the organiza...
You're getting pitched every day from your legacy enterprise software and hardware vendors about "cloud." They're doing an amazing job of convincing your CIO and CTO about what cloud is and how you should use it. The reality is they're defending their shrinking market share and keeping you on the legacy treadmill for as long as they can by selling you solutions that aren't "cloud."
In her session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Niki Acosta, Cloud Evangelista for Rackspace, will talk thro...
Hyper-V Replica is our included asynchronous site-to-site VM replication capability for Windows Server 2012 and our free Hyper-V Server 2012 bare-metal enterprise-grade hypervisor. Using Hyper-V Replica, you can quickly implement a cost-effective disaster recovery plan for your business critical VM...
Imagine if you could take a time machine five years into the future, so that you would know which of today’s new technologies panned out and which did not.
Most companies have only started using cloud in the past two years. But there are some companies that have been using cloud for five years or...
Don and I have four children, all of whom have had the fortune to take piano lessons (I'm not sure if the youngest would agree he's fortunate at this point in his life but at five, he's not really able to answer the question with any degree of wisdom, anyway. Come to think of it, not sure the other ...
Our prior post, A Roadmap to High-Value Cloud Infrastructure: Disaster Recovery and Data Protection, discussed both the benefits and limitations of a cloud-based disaster recovery (DR) strategy. As we highlighted last week, traditional disaster recovery options leave open a huge hole: At one extreme...
Online collaboration has evolved during the last decade, delivering even greater value -- thanks to a new generation of business technology applications. Forbes Insights released "Collaborating in the Cloud," a Cisco-sponsored study examining the ways business leaders increasingly look at cloud coll...
New technologies allow schools, colleges and universities to analyze absolutely everything that happens. From student behavior, testing results, career development of students as well as educational needs based on changing societies. A lot of this data has already been stored and is used for statist...
A recent Gartner study states that the function of the modern CIO is in flux and that his or her future focus must incorporate digital assets (aka cloud-based data and applications) to remain relevant. Towards the goal of riding the sea change a compiler of stacks to a broker of business needs, secu...
In the coming years, big data will change the way organisations and societies are operated and managed. Big data however, is not the only trend that will impact significantly how organisations operate. Another major trend at the moment is gamification. Gamification will change the way organisations ...
We all talk about cloud differently, but is there a way we should be speaking about this tech?
Cloud computing is now a widely reported, if not accepted, IT movement that, depending on who you talk to, has changed or is changing the way businesses utilize infrastructure.
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