Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Kon Leong, CEO of ZL Technologies (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: It is coherence of the data and coherence of the search engine´s structure as well that operates on that data. Kon Leong: Yes. The retention policy has to be coherent. If each title is just throwing away data, it is a meaningless system. These are just some of the differentiations. We could go

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Kon Leong, CEO of ZL Technologies (Part 3)

KL: Yes. You said you covered a lot of unstructured data, and you have talked to a lot of companies like Autonomy, for example. I would venture to say that this field has nothing well understood. Because of the misunderstanding, practically all of the implementation of large enterprises is [set up] to fail. This snippet

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Kon Leong, CEO of ZL Technologies (Part 2)

Kon Leong: One customer is in the financial sector – Wells Fargo. All enterprises struggle with unstructured data, and typically they come from various areas to manage the proliferation of data and the duplication of data, which impacts storage, manage data for compliance – regulations require them to keep certain data and to be able

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Kon Leong, CEO of ZL Technologies (Part 1)

Kon Leong is the chief executive officer of ZL Technologies. He studied at the IIT in Bombay, holds an MBA from the Wharton School and a degree in computer science from Concordia University. He spent more than eight years in various IT management and engineering positions and has created several successful startups, such as GigaLabs,

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Deal Radar 2010: MaxiScale

MaxiScale, a cloud-scale file serving and storage platform provider, was founded in 2007 by Gianluca Rattazzi and Francesco Lacapra. At that time, major cloud computing and Web companies were transitioning away from standard enterprise storage platforms to commodity hardware and smart software.

Deal Radar 2009: Clearwell Systems

Clearwell, founded in 2004, develops the Clearwell e-discovery platform, which allows enterprises to manage their litigation, regulatory, and corporate investigations. E-discovery can be defined as “any process in which electronic data is sought, located, secured, and searched with the intent of using it as evidence in a civil or criminal legal case.” Corporations can streamline the

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Autonomy Going Gangbuster

While most stocks across tech sectors are reflecting the economy’s depressed condition, Autonomy (AUTNF.PK)(LSE:AU), a leader in unstructured data management software, has been growing since its founding in 1996 and posted impressive results for the December quarter.

The Expansion and Contraction of “BI”

By Dave Hatch, Guest Author I have now completed a full year of research at Aberdeen Group (the last 6 months have been the busiest of my career, by far!), and I can truly say that after 20 years as a user and marketer of BI technologies, the past year has taught me more (as

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