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November 28, 2012

Big data critical to the success of Large Hadron Collider project

The CTO of the European Centre for Nuclear Research has said this week that big data is vital to garnering any discoveries from the particle accelerator.

Big data analytics is essential to the success of the European Centre for Nuclear Research’s (CERN) quest to learn more about the universe, the organisation’s CTO has said this week.

May 28, 2012

Jason Titus, Shazam: Pitch perfect

For a decade now Shazam, the song identification mobile phone app, has been settling bets, discovering new artists and unearthing guilty pleasures for its users. With over a million and half new users each week, the company’s recent growth has been exponential and its big data analytics have opened a range of new possibilities for expansion. Dominic Pollard visited the company’s London headquarters (that’s right, Shazam is a UK company) to speak to its CTO Jason Titus to find out the magic behind the technology.

A magical experience

For those of you who are unfamiliar with Shazam, it’s a mobile app that allows the user to find out the artist and name of any song they hear. Within just a few seconds, that nagging question of ‘oh, what is this song?’ can be answered with one click of a button. As CTO Jason Titus says, “Shazam is like a unique, magical experience.”

May 11, 2012

Geoff Wagstaff, CTO, GoSquared

As CTO of one of Britain’s hottest up-and-coming web analytics companies at the age of just 20, Geoff Wagstaff has certainly been thrown in at the deep end. He speaks to Dominic Pollard about how he and the young team masterminding GoSquared’s rise to prominence go about sourcing, implementing and delivering a host of cutting edge technologies.

Going Square

When it comes to working for a start-up, it would appear that there are those who love it and those who simply haven’t given it a go yet. The enthusiasm and passion emanating out of London’s thriving ‘Tech City’ or ‘Silicon Roundabout’ scene, an ever-expanding collection of tech companies based in the heart of the nation’s capital, becomes abundantly clear to anyone who experiences it firsthand. Geoff Wagstaff, the 20-year old chief technology officer (CTO) of GoSquared, is a prime example of that.

April 16, 2012

Julian Burnett, CTO, Sainsbury’s: An IT shopping list

Julian Burnett has been the CTO of Sainsury’s, one of Britain’s leading retailers, for a little over two years. In his time there his sourcing and implementing of technologies to suit the needs and objectives of the company has proven successful. He tells Dominic Pollard how he goes about the task in hand.

Cloud caution

Julian Burnett’s technology shopping list is usually determined by three things: clarity, focus and thorough planning. But when it comes to cloud computing, the Sainsbury’s chief technology officer (CTO) is taking an even more measured and wary approach than normal. The words he carefully chooses to describe the cloud strategy is “considered and staged”.

February 13, 2012

Successful start for EMC's Data Science Series

The first in EMC's series of big data events proved to be a success last week.

The inaugural event of EMC Greenplum’s ‘Data Science Series’ took place last Wednesday (8 February) and the Big Data Insight Group was in attendance. The verdict: a resounding success.