It was a beautiful morning in our nation’s capital as I arrived at the Marriott Metro Center for the latest stop on the MarkLogic Big Data Nation tour. This event was specially focused on Big Data challenges and solutions for government. Steve Cooper, former CIO of DHS and FAA, gave the keynote talk and told attendees that government and industry need to adopt a different way of thinking and working together to solve these challenges.

Steve pointed out that government needs new

Reed Elsevier’s Mark Rodgers relates MarkLogic handles 200,000 data sources

Volume, velocity and variety of weather had hit Chicago on Wednesday but the Blackhawks had won in triple overtime and the sky was blue for us when the Big Data Tour stopped at Spiaggia Restaurant downtown on Thursday morning. It was a terrific audience — and the first one I can say that had gender parity. It was great to see the ladies get in on the Big Data scene.

John Shap kicked off the event explaining the “art

I came across this blog post on LinkedIn yesterday, and I thought it was an interesting counterpart to my colleague Amir’s recent post on whether size matters in regard to “Big Data.”

The author is Demian Hess, from Avalon Consulting (a MarkLogic partner, who has built some very cool stuff on top of our database), and he describes what he sees as the difference between “Big Data” and “Cumbersome Data.” Check it out if you’ve got a minute!

Do you have Big Data or Cumbersome Data? from

High-profile hacks and cyber espionage by nation states (or those working on their behest) have been in the spotlight of late. But a far more insidious computer threat lurks much closer to home: criminals perpetrating fraud. According to a 2011 report by public accounting firm UHY Advisors, fraud is a whopping $1 trillion dilemma in the US alone — and that number could be considerably higher. It is hard to put an exact number on electronic fraud as, 1) companies are loath to report that

For many Star Trek fans, the image of a crewmember interacting with the ship’s computer stands in stark contrast to how we interact with our computers today. While we have progressed by leaps and bounds in the field of human-to-computer interaction, including even natural language processing, we are still a ways away from the seamless Q&A that takes place when we see a crewmember interacting with even an early model Star Fleet ship computer – Watson notwithstanding. What is apparent in the (for