Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Josh Rogers, SVP of Data Integration Business at Syncsort (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Imagine you are a young entrepreneur today starting a company. Where do you see some open problems that you think are worth working on? Josh Rogers: There is a debate happening on what Hadoop is. I would suggest people to look at it as an operating system. Think about the set of services

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Internet Advertising Pioneer: Kevin O’Connor, Founder of DoubleClick and FindTheBest (Part 4)

Sramana: One of the core philosophies of our incubator is that over 99% of business that seek venture or angel financing get rejected. In the reject pool, there are a lot of solid mid-sized businesses. They will not be massive, but they can be solid profitable businesses. Kevin O’Connor: I agree. Every top VC going

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Ron Bodkin, CEO of Think Big Analytics (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: When you are going into accounts, which industry sectors are you seeing the maximum traction in for big data projects? Ron Bodkin: This is truly a broad-based shift that we see. We are working with Fortune 50 customers in multiple industry sectors, because we see needs of many.

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Josh Rogers, SVP of Data Integration Business at Syncsort (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: So you are basically accelerating the sort process. Josh Rogers: I would say we started with that basic technology on the mainframe. What we are doing today is accelerating all sorts of correlated processing functions. Whether that is aggregation, a join or a filtering process, we have technologies that allow you to accomplish

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Internet Advertising Pioneer: Kevin O’Connor, Founder of DoubleClick and FindTheBest (Part 3)

Sramana: At that time people were still doing concept financing. The Internet happened because of concept financing. I wonder if the Internet would ever have happened if we did not have concept financing. Kevin O’Connor: I’m not sure I agree. Eventually everything shakes out in a capitalistic market. It took a bit longer for things

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May 9 – 173rd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 173rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, May 9, 2013, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Ron Bodkin, CEO of Think Big Analytics (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What problem doesn’t Hadoop solve? Ron Bodkin: That is a good question. At any given time you have certain capabilities in a number of technologies, and then you also have a vector for how new capabilities are being added. I would say that today Hadoop is not well suited for real-time use cases.

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Josh Rogers, SVP of Data Integration Business at Syncsort (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Does that mean they are giving comScore access to their Google Analytics? Josh Rogers: No. They will download a piece of software that sits in the browser and that sends the information back to comScore.