Talking Search and Discovery to Exploit Data at Enterprise Data World 2014
As a search guy, I think of data as something to exploit in order to solve some business objective, with a focus on moving data along the axis of…
Datastax MVPs for Cassandra
Last month, John and I were named Datastax MVPs for Cassandra at the Cassandra Summit EU in London, and have now joined the rest of the Datastax Rebel Elite,…
OSC To Have Three speakers at Lucene Revolution!
If youd like to catch up with us and youre in Europe, theres few better places to hear what were all about than at one of our talks at…
Conference Recap: Defcon
Last week I went to Defcon, the premiere security conference that attracted 15,000 security experts and Will Smith to Las Vegas. Here are a few lessons I learned hanging…
Tomorrow is Semantic Day at OpenSource Connections
Tim Berners-Lee original vision was for the web is what we today call the Semantic Web: I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable ofanalyzing…
Forget Search, Lets Talk Discovery – A Recap of Enterprise Search Summit
The middle of May saw me road tripping to not just one, but two Enterprise Search Summits to tell some war stories in doing search at scale. I attended…
How cloud computing is revolutionizing pharma and genomics
Yesterday I attended an event hosted by Booz Allen/Amazon around Big Data and Cloud Computing for life sciences. It was a fascinating event that brought together folks from data…
Big Search for Big Data: The Screencast
Better late then never, here is the screencast of my presentation Big Search for Big Data that I gave at LuceneRevolution. Its a story of the mistakes and victories…
Our own Matt Overstreet introducing Aneesh Chopra at RVA Startup Weekend!
Matt Overstreet was the Master of Ceremonies for the Richmond Startup Weekend earlier this month. And the guest speaker was Aneesh Chopra, first CTO of the United States. Matt…
Indexing Big Data on Amazon AWS: The Screencast
My colleague Scott Stults talks about our experiences in using Amazon EC2 to perform distributed indexing into Solr as well as reprocessing a million TIFF images. At one point…
LuceneRevolution 2012 Recap
I went to LuceneRevolution to test out my assertion that Search is the dominant metaphor for working with Big Data and based on the conversations that I had, that…
HIMSS HealthIT Wrapup
After a couple of exhausting days at HIMSS last week, where I was overwhelmed both by being a first time visitor to the glitz of Las Vegas and the…