What to Expect at Greenplum’s Data Science Summit: EMC World 2012

Maria Deutscher | May 22nd

Since EMC’s acquisition of Greenplum in 2010, they've become a regular at EMC World. This year the firm is holding the second annual Data Science Summit, one of several community events going within  the conference.  Things...»

IT Shifting from Nuts and Bolts to Services, Says GlaxoSmithKline [Video]

Bert Latamore | May 22nd

IT is in a transition towards being a service manager says Robert P. Mattie II,  director of services integration at GlaxoSmithKline, “and cloud is a good start in the shift to services.” Business users are...»

Taming the Big Data Gorilla [Infographic]

Maria Deutscher | May 22nd

Wikibon released a new infographic that lays out the value proposition behind Big Data and provides vivid example of real-world Big Data usecases. Big data has certainly gotten "big," and its growing at fast pace.  According to Google,...»

IBM Touts SmartCloud Advancements, Products

Maria Deutscher | May 22nd

Big Blue’s SmartCloud Services portfolio reach several impressive milestones recently, including adding a notable list of new clients in a relatively short period of time. The IT behemoth says that more than one million business users work with...»

Here’s a New Formula for CrowdFunding Success

Kathryn Buford | May 22nd

START.ac, a new capital-raising program, combines the incubator and CrowdFunding models.  Given the ever-increasing landscape of incubators and 400+ CrowdFunding platforms, more programs like IndieGoGo are highlighting their distinctiveness. If project...»

Wikibon Survey Shows 2012 Really is the Year of Cloud

Dave Vellante | May 22nd

We're live at EMC World with #theCube and I've been squinting through the recent Wikibon IT Transformation Survey results. Data is still trickling in but we had over 200 Wikibon members take the survey which...»

Can Microsoft’s New So.cl Network Revive Bing Search?

Saroj Kar | May 22nd

Three days after its IPO, Facebook saw the arrival of a new social network and a possible future competitor on the web.  so.cl is from none other than Microsoft, originally created for students and...»

Big Data Can Be a Beast But it Can Be Tamed [Infographic]

Alex Williams | May 22nd

Big data - the term is over used and at the same time intimidating. It's a reminder of the power and the overwhelming nature of a wave that can wash out a community or any natural force that...»

EMC Acquires Syncplicity – A Move to Blur the Private and Public Cloud

Alex Williams | May 21st

EMC acquired Syncplicity today for an undisclosed amount. The news comes in the midst of EMC World, where speculation about the company's next acquisition has been the talk of the event. It's the second acquisition...»