Interesting article on the NSA and Big Data from InformationWeek. It clearly states that the technologies underpinning the NSA’s data collection and analysis programs provide much for IT pros to cheer. The agency has built a scalable, extensible, secure big data system that rivals, and in some cases exceeds, anything cloud heavyweights like Google, Amazon or […]
Food on long-haul space flights needs to meet a slew of requirements. It needs to have a five-year shelf life, perhaps most importantly. But there are other issues it needs to address. “This is the only food that the crew members will have, so it needs to maintain its nutrition content for the length of […]
The airline industry today is extremely interested in two major trends – Big Data and ancillary revenue. Everyone is seemingly talking Big Data, but what is it exactly and how does it help an airline to make money? And then, of course, we have the whole song-and-dance between passenger and airlines around ancillary revenues and […]