Jim Harris

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Plato’s Cave is a famous allegory from philosophy that describes a fictional scenario where people mistake an illusion for reality. The allegory describes a group of people who have lived their whole lives as prisoners chained motionless in a dark cave, forced to face a blank wall. Behind the prisoners is a large fire. In front of the fire are puppeteers that project shadows onto the cave wall, acting out little plays, which include mimicking voices and sound effects that echo off the cave walls

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Jenny Sussin

AUGUST 30, 2016

Over the last week or so, there have been a lot of news articles flying around about WhatsApp being open for businesses and businesses are losing their collective minds with excitement. Before we get into WHY this is the reaction, let me explain what the status quo was before this announcement. PRIOR TO this update to their terms of service , WhatsApp told businesses that they were not allowed to use their application for commercial purposes: advertising, commerce, customer service…This w

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Nutanix

AUGUST 29, 2016

IT organizations face significant challenges in providing applications on-demand, while ensuring high uptimes and responsiveness. Legacy IT infrastructure can no longer cater to evolving business needs, especially in cases where IT acts as a cost center rather than an enabler.

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

AUGUST 31, 2016

By DAVID ADAMS Since inception, this blog has defined “data science” as inference derived from data too big to fit on a single computer. Thus the ability to manipulate big data is essential to our notion of data science. While MapReduce remains a fundamental tool, many interesting analyses require more than it can offer. For instance, the well-known Mantel-Haenszel estimator cannot be implemented in a single MapReduce.

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Nutanix

AUGUST 29, 2016

Cisco® recently removed Nutanix from of its Solution Partner Program (SPP). Cisco® Partner Certification is done through this program. The termination surprisingly followed the successful conclusion of working with very cooperative, and enthusiastic Cisco® teams (Engineering, Product Management, Technical Marketing, Sales) to certify Nutanix’s software on UCS®.

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