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Presidential Debate Should’ve Talked More Tech: Data Has Big Impact on Jobs, Gov’t Spending
The second presidential debate between President Obama and Governor Romney this week covered some topics that we haven’t seen in the press as regularly as taxes, including tech. While many may feel tech is an off-the-cuff topic for a presidential debate when the economy’s still troubled, tech is in fact an integral aspect of the ...
QLogic Gets Bossy in Competitive Virtualized Networking Space
Networking equipment supplier QLogic revealed this morning that its 8200 and 3200 Series10Gb CNAs have been certified as being fully compatible with the Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch line-up. This switch family is an integral part of Alcatel-Lucent’s Application Fluent Network architecture, the firm’s means of competing in an increasingly virtualized networking market. “Today’s applications require data center solutions ...
Teradata Steps Up with New Hadoop Appliance, Software Trial
Business intelligence firm Teradata had a couple of major product updates this morning. The company unveiled a new integrated big data appliance, and announced a free version of its MapReduce framework. The Teradata Aster Big Data Appliance is an all-in-on solution that offers users a more simplified way to leverage Hadoop. The offering leverages two ...
Big Data Milestone from Hadapt, Tableau Team-Up
Hadapt, a two year startup that integrates Hadoop into traditional BI environments, just unveiled the second release of its Adaptive Analytical Platform. Version 2.0 is a huge improvement over the first, thanks to a number of new features. One major addition is the Hadapt Development Kit, which enables developers to supplement the platform’s built-in analytical ...
SAP Digs into PaaS with HANA Cloud
SAP announced HANA Cloud at its TechEd gathering in Last Vega this week. The new services suite is based on the company’s in-memory database technology and offers advantages to a wide variety of users, from Java devs to enterprise that want to take HANA on a test run before making a big financial commitment. The ...
Strata + Hadoop World 2012: Expectations and Trends We’re Watching
October may just be the biggest month of the year for big data. The upcoming Strata Conference + Hadoop World gathering in New York will be co-presented by both O’Reilly and Cloudera, and will provide an opportunity to gain a very comprehensive view of where the industry is situated today. From October 23rd through the ...
Redefining the Xbox, Consumer Cloud with Windows 8
Microsoft is looking to change the status of its Xbox console from a simple gaming platform to a full-fledged home entertainment hub. So far, this initiative is progressing nicely. Here to discuss more on the matter is SiliconAngle founder John Furrier, who says the Xbox represents the new consumer era of cloud, mobile and social, ...
Lawmakers’ Privacy Concerns Will Cost Advertisers a Lot of Money
Big data may be a big buzz word right now, but the underlying developments in this space have large implications on the consumer market. Here to discuss the marketing industry’s use of big data is SiliconAngle’s John Caseretto, who goes through the latest developments in privacy. He looks at ways in which increased scrutiny on marketers ...
OpenStack Downloaded Over 300,000 Times, Powers On
OpenStack distributor PistonCloud recently published an infographic that sums up how much OpenStack grown since its launch in 2010. The initiative is big, no doubt, and the company is offering some specific numbers to back up that claim. OpenStack has been downloaded at least 300,000 times since it became available to developers. It also evolved – ...
Baumgartner’s Space Jump Legitimizes Web Broadcasting
Felix Baumgartner’s recent space jump was a milestone in more than one regard. The Austrian set the record for the highest skydive, and also for the number of people who tuned in to watch in real-time. Here to discuss how the space jump has impacted the web broadcasting sector is SiliconAngle founder John Furrier (full ...