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It’s no secret that rocket .. err … data scientists are in short supply. The explosion of data and the corresponding explosion of tools, and the knock-on impacts of Moore’s and Metcalfe’s laws, is that there is more data, more connections, and more technology to process it than ever. At last year’s Hadoop World, there was a feeding frenzy for data scientists, which only barely dwarfed demand for the more technically oriented data architects. In English, that means: Potential MacArthur Grant recipients who have a passion and insight for data, the mathematical and statistical prowess for ginning up the algorithms, and the artistry for painting the picture that all that data leads to. That’s what we mean by data scientists. People who understand the platform side of Big Data, a.k.a., data architect or data engineer. The data architect side will be the more straightforw... (more)

A Funny Thing Happened on Java’s Way to the Cloud

On the surface, everything seems fine. If you do a search, you'll see lots of people offering support for cloud-centric application frameworks. But, when I speak with companies actually moving Java applications into the Cloud or trying to create new Cloud services based on Java, I get a different story. It's not the application in many cases that's in the way, it's the JVM. An example that highlights these issues comes from one of our partners, Intalio. Intalio offers Cloud solutions based mostly on open source. They and their customers are frustrated by the fact that Java can't t... (more)

Princeton Financial® Systems Introduces PAM® for Investments

Princeton Financial Systems, a global leader in providing accounting, compliance and reporting solutions to the investment industry, has introduced PAM for Investments, the next generation of flexible and scalable investment accounting platforms, offering seamless integration and an efficient user-friendly interface. PAM for Investments’ 3-tier client/server architecture offers horizontal and vertical scalability, simplified installation, and flexible deployment. With multiple custom dashboards, users can effectively analyze and manage exceptions throughout the trading and inves... (more)

Mind the Gap - Three Gaps to High Velocity Pipeline and How to Cross Them

When I used to go to London often and ride the Underground, the constant refrain seen was "Mind The Gap".   Mind the Gap or you could suffer some unmentionable and clearly gruesome fate.   As Online software service providers of all flavors try to create high velocity sales and marketing businesses, they would do well to mind these three gaps: The "It's Not Your Time" gap The "It's Not My Job" gap The "Window Shopping" gap Let's take a quick look at each of these gaps and see how we can minimize the risk of a potential customer "falling through the cracks", which while not blood... (more)

Broadview Networks Wins 2012 Cloud Award

Broadview Networks, a leading provider of hosted voice, data and cloud computing solutions, announced today that it has won the B2B Customer Strategy Award in the inaugural 2012 Cloud Awards. Broadview has been in the forefront of adopting cloud-based services to improve its customers’ operations, and as a leader in the cloud-based IP phone solutions market, has extended their expertise to cloud computing. Their suite of cloud computing services offers fully-managed enterprise-grade hosted business applications and infrastructure tailored to make it easy-to-use for the small- an... (more)