Stephen E. Arnold: Federal Agencies Suffering Constant Connectivity Losses — “Dark Fiber”?

Federal Agencies Perpetually Battle Connectivity Loss This may be stating the obvious, but ComputerWorld declares that “IT Outages Are an Ongoing Problem for the U.S. Government.” The article cites a recent report sponsored by Symantec and performed by MeriTalk, which runs a network for government IT workers. Though the issues that originally plagued HealthCare.gov were …

Reflections: The New Story — Open Source Everything — The People’s World Brain

I’ve been invited to participate in The New Story Summit in Scotland, and they are paying all expenses, which matters since I have no salary, no pensions, and no savings. The event is closed now to further registration, but open to any who wish to take advantage of the live streaming portions. For myself, with …

Yoda: Big Data Mergers, Acquisitions, & Mistakes

Wandering, Big Data is… Top 10 mergers and acquisition in the Big Data space 2014 LIST ONLY Oracle & BlueKai Salesforce & RelateIQ TIBCO & Jaspersoft Cloudera & Gazzang Hortonworks & XA Secure Teradata & Think Big Analytics Google & Rangespan IBM & Cloudant Microsoft & Capptain Twitter & Namo Media

Books

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SchwartzReport: 25% US Citizens Support Secession & Break-Up of USA + Meta-RECAP

Twenty five per cent of Americans are open to secession and the break up of the United States. To this add that better than 3 out of 4 Americans are unhappy. And that 64 per cent can’t even name the three branches of government. This is a country in crisis. Angry With Washington, 1 in …

Yoda: Big Data Potential — and Ignorance

Baby steps… What Big Data Can Mean for Sustainability The first Industrial Revolution showed the world how much machines could accomplish. What GE calls the “Next Industrial Revolution” is now showing how much machines can accomplish when they communicate with each other. And just as steam — and later electricity — powered the first industrial …