Episode 119 – Knowage: The Open Source Business Analytics Suite

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This time we are joined by Paolo from Knowage who gives us a high level overview of Knowage: a totally open source suite for Business Analytics.

The Knowage suite is composed of several modules, each one conceived for a specific analytical domain. They can be used individually or combined with one another to ensure full coverage of user’ requirements, allowing to build a tailored product.

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Episode 118 – Roaring News

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In this Big Data News episode, we use an article on how some disgruntled open source projects tried to force the “net giants” to give back as an excuse to talk about open source ethics. The second article for today comes from the hand of Noel Sharkey about possible deception in modern robotics.

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Episode 117 – Big Data Disaster Recovery

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When Big data projects mature from R&D projects to business critical components, it becomes important to look at how your environment can survive and recover from catastrophic failures.

Considering the not unimportant cost of a good Disaster Recovery plan, it is good to take a good look at your deployment and carefully weigh the good and bad on a granular level.

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Episode 115 – Anniversary three: I guess we’re in it for the long run now!

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It’s been three years since we started this podcast and as we’ve done in previous years, we  invited the wonderful people that were a guest on our show in the past twelve months and made our little podcast so much better for our listeners! Continue reading “Episode 115 – Anniversary three: I guess we’re in it for the long run now!”