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Sqrrl CEO Oren Falkowitz Talks Big Data Security
Oren Falkowitz, the former NSA security guru who founded sqrrl with four of his colleagues, hopped into theCube at Strata Conference + Hadoop World to discuss his company and the state of the market. Falkowitz’s startup is currently developing a commercial, enterprise-grade version of Accumulo, a distributed data store that rivals HBase with a more ...
This Week in Big Data: Strata + Hadoop World, Real-Time and DevOps
This has been a huge week for the big data industry. Thousands of experts from a broad range of industries flocked to Strata Conference + Hadoop World in New York this week to share their angle on analytics, and the big names vendors followed close behind with their new product announcements. Cloudera earned a lot ...
Intel’s GM of Enterprise Software on Big Data @ IBM IOD
Cube alumna Pauline Nist made her latest appearance at this week’s IBM Information OnDemand Conference. The general manager for Intel’s enterprise software group discussed big data and how IBM fits in with SiliconAngle founder John Furrier and Wikibon’s Dave Vellante. Nist starts out by elaborating a bit on IBM- and Intel’s relationship. The Big Blue ...
This Week in the Cloud: Open-Source, Cost Efficiency and Skype
A few notable updates came out of the cloud this week, including a couple of from the open-source community. Firstly, Cloudability announced that it’s making OpenStack compatible with the Google Compute Engine. The San Francisco startup is currently working on implementing the Compute Engine APIs in the open cloud OS project. OpenStack can already run ...
Fusion-io Reports Record Sales, Flat Outlook
Fusion-io posted its first quarter financial results today. The flash storage supplier delivered stellar results but provided a weak guidance that sent its stock spiraling down on the New York Stock Exchange. Fusion-io sold $118.1 million worth of SSDs in the first quarter of fiscal 2013, an increase of 59 percent on a year-over-year basis ...
Citrix Overhauls ShareFile for Android with Latest Patch
Desktop virtualization firm Citrix just updated its mobile collaboration app with improvements all across the board that show off some new endpoint know-how. The Android version of ShareFile has been augmented with more admin features, reporting capabilities, and a few other notable additions. The new release of ShareFile comes equipped with so-called poison pill function ...
TIBCO Does More for Utilities with New BI Extension
Analytics software maker TIBCO officially launched the Spotfire Extension for OpenSpirit at the Digital Oilfields Summit, held in London this week. OpenSpirit sold vendor-agnostic analytics technology to big oil and gas before TIBCO acquired it in September 2010. Many industry-specific products are based on OpenSpirit, including ESRI ArcGIS, GeoFrame, OpenWorks, the Public Petroleum Data Model ...
Hadapt in Key Position for Data Imaging, New Forms of Communication
Hadapt was the lucky company that snagged the Audience Choice award at the gathering for its use of SQL and Hadoop to offer a single, unified system for data analytics. Dr. Daniel Abadi, the chief scientist and co-founder of Hadapt, was more than happy to elaborate, stopping by theCube with SiliconAngle founder John Furrier and Wikibon ...
More Data Protection, Connectivity in DDN’s Latest WOS
DataDirect Networks is launching a new version of Web Object Scaler, its homegrown scale-out cloud storage system. The 2.5 edition features data protection enhancements and improved connectivity. WOS 2.5 ships with DDN ObjectAssure, a recovery solution that is being pegged as a highly efficient alternative to dispersal data protection. Instead of replicating across three locations it ...
Project Serengeti Update Powers Up Hadoop, Cloudera and More
While the cloud has been an important focus for VMware, the virtualization company hasn’t fallen behind the big data curve either. And Project Serengeti is playing an increasingly important role in this initiative as the open-source solution that allows enterprises to run Hadoop on vSphere, taking full advantage of virtualization with easier provisioning and high availability. ...