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Thought Leaders in Big Data: David Bernstein, Vice President of eQuest’s Big Data Division (Part 2)

Posted on Monday, Dec 24th 2012

Sramana Mitra: Let’s discuss what kind of big data–related work you are doing. Dave Bernstein: Probably you are looking to know more about where big data is born – the concept of the transaction itself and the residual information. The transaction it creates has become a core base of a lot of the big data.

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Scaling a Platform for Device-Agnostic Web Interfaces: Michael Mullany, CEO of Sencha (Part 5)

Posted on Monday, Dec 24th 2012

Sramana: What is the composition of developers who build on your platform? What do you know about them? Michael Mullany: We do a fair amount of surveys to understand who and where they are. We have a global developer community. We find that we have 10% to 15% of our developers in China, India, and

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: David Bernstein, Vice President of eQuest’s Big Data Division (Part 1)

Posted on Sunday, Dec 23rd 2012

David Bernstein is the vice president of the big data division at eQuest, a major job posting distribution company. Each year, more than 250 million job postings are delivered through eQuest. In this interview, David talks about how eQuest handles big data, how information is being gathered to provide customers with accurate consulting, and trends

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Scaling a Platform for Device-Agnostic Web Interfaces: Michael Mullany, CEO of Sencha (Part 4)

Posted on Sunday, Dec 23rd 2012

Sramana: Was Sencha already an established company when you joined it? Michael Mullany: Sencha had existed as a predecessor company called XJS. The first code started off as an open source project by a sole developer which had a small business generated around it. The current CTO decided to take the company in a direction

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Scaling a Platform for Device-Agnostic Web Interfaces: Michael Mullany, CEO of Sencha (Part 3)

Posted on Saturday, Dec 22nd 2012

Sramana: What type of people or entities did you have on that focus group? It does not sound like they were from your industry. Michael Mullany: The profile of the customers we were talking to in that focus group were customers who were not early adopters. They were not innovators. When you do go talk

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Invitation to Judge the 1M/1M New Year Challenge

Posted on Friday, Dec 21st 2012

Friends, This holiday season, we invite you to have fun with our 1M/1M New Year Challenge 2013 and participate in the contest as a judge for the semi-final round. Each of you can vote for one entry out of the 46 that have made it to this round. The 20 top entries based on your vote

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Living the Miles We Travel, with an E-concierge App?

Posted on Friday, Dec 21st 2012

By guest author Swarna Ellison of PlayyIt When you first started traveling for work, do you remember how exciting the prospect of traveling to and exploring new places was?  It was a chance to explore these places, expand your horizons, and meet new people. But for most of us, work travel has become tedious. Planning

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Joel Young, Senior VP of Research & Development/Chief Technical Officer of Digi (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Dec 21st 2012

Sramana Mitra: That is the direction I was going in earlier.  You talked about your Internet of things business in a range of about $100 million.  What is the size of the current Internet of things industry? Joel Young: In the commercial business and in the commercial space, where we play, it is a billion

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