Talksum and the Skolkovo Foundation Helping to Change the Future Landscape of the IT Industry

Posted on May, 15th 2013 in Big Data, Data Management, Industry News · Write a comment

Based on our new approach to high-speed data processing and management solutions, Talksum was recently selected by Russia’s Skolkovo Foundation to help change the future of the IT industry. The Skolkovo Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in September 2010 by the Russian government with an objective to accelerate transformation of Russia from a resource-intensive to an innovation-based economy. This is an honor for us as we are now on par with 28 of the world’s most successful corporations in the world, including Boeing, Cisco Systems, EADS, GE, Samsung, Johnson & Johnson, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Siemens, Nokia, and others who have also signed R&D partnership agreements with the Foundation.

Igor Bogachev, executive director of the Information Technologies (IT) Cluster, Skolkovo Foundation, put it this way, “The volume of data in corporate business grows by 30 to 40 percent every year according to different sources. The Big Data problem has been already in the room for some time. We in Skolkovo do not neglect this major trend and give special support to the startups working in this field. The goal is to build the Big Data co-innovation sub-cluster in Skolkovo with the companies like Talksum and other residents. I trust that Talksum is one of the companies that will change the future landscape of the IT industry.”

The Foundation is overseeing the creation of the Skolkovo Innovation Center composed of companies and start-ups, developing innovative technologies (currently numbering almost 1000), a Technopark, the Skolkovo Institute of Technology (Skoltech), a new graduate research University established in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Skolkovo city, located near Moscow. Together these entities will establish a vibrant eco-system of technology innovation and entrepreneurship.

Click here to see the entire Skolkovo press release.

 

A Recap of the Big Data Innovation Summit, London

Posted on May, 8th 2013 in Big Data, Data Management, Presentations, Technology · Write a comment

Last week, we had the pleasure of attending the Big Data Innovation Summit in London as an attendee, a presenter, a chairman, and an exhibitor! In addition, we announced our flagship product – the Talksum Data Stream Router. All in all, a great week!

First, I’d like to thank all of you who attended our presentation, “A New Approach to Data Management.” We are excited about the future of Big Data and the opportunity we had to share our vision with you, in particular our approach to data management and analytics, which focuses on speed, simplicity, and cost efficiency. Big Data initiatives need more than just new storage platforms and BI solutions. They need to be real time to keep pace with data demands, simple to avoid specialized skills and custom codes, and cost effective to maintain low overhead and offer greater value.

Those are the ingredients built into the Talksum Data Stream Router. For those who missed our presentation, we showed our solution in our booth and discussed various use cases, including those in service delivery, industrial and automotive sensors, financial tracking and analytics, healthcare HL7 compliance, and biogenetics research.

If you didn’t make it to the Summit and would like a copy of the presentation, fill out the Talksum Contact Us form and request the presentation in the “Nature of Interest” box.

At the Summit, it was also fun to listen and discuss innovation with other experts in the field, including those from CERN, Hortonworks, BT, Pfizer, Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch, and many others.

We are already looking forward to the next Summit!

Join Us in London at the Big Data Innovation Summit

Posted on Apr, 19th 2013 in Big Data, Data Management, Industry News, Introductions, Presentations, Technology · Write a comment

We’re gearing up this week to attend the Big Data Innovation Summit in London on April 30 and May 1, where the theme is appropriately “going beyond the Big Data buzzword.”

At the event, which takes place at the Lancaster London Hotel, we will be sharing details about the recent implementation of the Talksum Data Stream solution. In addition to our booth, Talksum CTO Dale Russell will be presenting in the “Big Data Innovation” track at 3 pm on April 30 about the following:

A New Approach to Data Management

In the presentation, Dale will describe how the Talksum Data Stream solution takes a new approach to data management and analytics. Designed to accelerate real-time decisions, the Talksum Data Stream manages data acquisition and transformation, and converts data into flexibly managed event streams. With the ability to output to most external data stores, the Talksum Data Stream can process, filter, and aggregate data in real time, as well as enrich it by correlating events with other external data sources.

We are excited to be a part of the Big Data Innovation Summit and hope to see you there!

Hello world!

Posted on May, 7th 2012 in Introductions · Write a comment

As Platform Architect for Talksum, I’m beyond pleased that the first post I’m writing  for the company is to announce an open source contribution.  I can’t think of a better way to start.  Writing this, I’m looking back to when I first found Yggdrasil Linux in a book store in 1995, and I’m blown away by what’s happened to our industry since then.   This global network that so many of us collaborate over today exists thanks to the efforts of people who believe that we can all benefit from working together.

Today, in the world built on those contributions,  we find ourselves struggling to find new ways to make sense of all of the information we’re producing.  We all know that with better ways to catalog and analyze data, we can gain deeper insights into ourselves and the challenges we face as individuals, companies, and societies.  At Talksum, we’ve assembled an experienced and talented team of individuals who believe that we can understand the impact of our decisions earlier, and we’re building the tools to do it.  As the world moves ever faster, we must understand the consequences of our decisions in less time.

Over the years, as Dale Russell (our CTO) and I have collaborated on the “big data issue” (can we coin a better term for this, as an industry?), we’ve come to deeply respect an open source project that is at the heart of many Linux systems: rsyslog.  As a workhorse for getting systems and applications data to where it needs to go, we feel it is without peer.  Additionally, Rainer Gerhards, author of rsyslog, is an absolute pleasure to collaborate with.  So as a company, with the blessing of Alex Varshavsky (our CEO… thanks, Alex!) we made the decision to contribute to the project.

Our first contribution is an experimental output module to connect Rsyslog to another project we have enormous respect for:  Redis.  It is now checked in on the development branch of rsyslog.  I’ll be smoothing out some rough edges in the code over the next couple of days, but it’s ready to start playing with.  We’re keeping a copy of the code on our github site as well.  Feedback and contributions are more than welcome!

Hello, World.

Brian Knox, Platform Architect, Talksum, Inc.