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The IBM Press Release on Spark That Every Tech Leader Should Read

CTOvision

For years it has seemed like IBM was giving lip-service to Spark while emphasizing capabilities that they placed big bets on over the years (especially IBM's flagship stream processing product, InfoSphere Streams). Second, it radically simplifies the process of developing intelligent apps, which are fueled by data.

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The End of Silicon Valley as We Know It?

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

High-profile entrepreneurs like Elon Musk, venture capitalists like Peter Thiel and Keith Rabois, and big companies like Oracle and HP Enterprise are all leaving California. The end of the betting economy. Is this the end of Silicon Valley as we know it? Inventing the future. 2020 proved him both right and wrong. When Arthur C.

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To Blog or Not to Blog?

N2Growth Blog

So why is it that so many people still seem paralyzed when it comes to taking the plunge? Let’s look at the numbers…While the numbers vary depending on which source you believe, the total number of blogs on the Internet is generally thought to be in the range of 200 million blogs.

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Actian 2020 Predictions: 4 Data Trends for Analytics

Actian

This means that a growing number of these kinds of projects are driving the provisioning of resources, like cloud data warehouses, and informing the selection of other elements supporting the analytics stack, like data integration, ETL, and more. UX Innovation is Driving the Transformation of IT and Data Teams.

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The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Neither company is profitable; their enormous valuations are based on the premise that if a company grows big enough and fast enough, profits will eventually follow. Street talk has Lyft shooting for a valuation between $15 and $30 billion dollars , and Uber valued at an astonishing $120 billion dollars.

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COVID Lessons Learned From Tackling Extremist Ideologies

The Cipher Brief

Organizing the effort out of the gate, and allocating sufficient resources, sets the stage and initiates the response. She is the author of How We Win: How Cutting-Edge Entrepreneurs, Political Visionaries, Enlightened Business Leaders and Social Media Mavens Can Defeat the Extremist Threat. Be the leaders we need.