Derrick has been a technology journalist since 2003 and has been covering cloud computing, big data and other emerging IT trends for Gigaom since 2009. He has written the words “cloud” and “Hadoop” possibly more than any other person on the planet. Derrick lives in Las Vegas and has a law degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Away from the office, Derrick trains in muay thai and is active in animal welfare issues.
Pivotal, the cloud computing and big data company that spun out from EMC and VMware in 2013, is open sourcing its entire portfolio of big data technologies and is teaming up… Read more »
As deep learning continues gathering steam among researchers, entrepreneurs and the press, there’s a loud-and-getting-louder debate about whether its algorithms actually operate like the human brain does. The comparison might not make much… Read more »
Microsoft researchers claim in a recently published paper that they have developed the first computer system capable of outperforming humans on a popular benchmark. While it’s estimated that humans can classify images in… Read more »
I’m trying really hard to write less about business intelligence and analytics software. We get it: Data is important to businesses, and the easier you can make it for people to analyze… Read more »
If you really like sports and you’re really skilled at data analysis or machine learning, you might want to make that your profession. On Thursday, private equity firm Vista announced it… Read more »
Facebook has been building its own servers and storage gear for years, and last June announced its first-ever networking gear in the form of a top-of-rack switch called “Wedge.” On Wednesday,… Read more »
Hadoop vendor MapR and data center automation startup Mesosphere have created an open source technology called Myriad, which is supposed to make it easier to run Hadoop workloads on top of the… Read more »
Datadog, a startup that monitors the performance of users’ cloud computing servers, has acquired big data startup Mortar Data and intends to shutter the company’s existing cloud service. Mortar launched in… Read more »
Storage vendor Hitachi Data Systems is set to buy analytics company Pentaho at a price rumored to be between $500 million and $600 million (closer to $500 million, from what I’ve heard). It’s… Read more »
A text-analysis startup called Parakweet (whose initial product focused on book recommendations) has launched a new application, called InboxVudu, that’s designed to help users reduce the stress of email by showing… Read more »