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It’s More than Just Bad PR for Apple, Foxconn and the iPhone 5
From worries over iPhone 5 shortages to factory riots, there’s no shortage of drama for Apple and its manufacturing partner Foxconn. SiliconANGLE editor-in-chief Mark Hopkins hopped on the News Desk this morning to discuss the latest on the employee kerfuffle at Foxconn, which lists some of the world’s biggest tech firms as clients. The Chinese ...
Data Protection Shouldn’t Be an Afterthought, Says Intel
When it comes to security architecture, many developments in the stack seem to be an afterthought, particularly in the application layer. Instead of a full replacement approach, Jim Greene is a senior security engineer for Intel proposes an incremental method to updating enterprise infrastructure. In fact, Greene has a very clear take on the state of cyber-security ...
This Week in Big Data: Funding, Security and Smart Grids
This week was a very notable one for big thanks to a handful of updates, and a new startup that might just change the way we think of big data today. Trifacta raised $$4.3 million from Accel’s Big Data fund for a solution that doesn’t just visualize insight, but also the analytics tools that produce ...
This Week in the Cloud: Oracle, Workday IPO and More
Oracle’s annual event OpenWorld is one that really stood out this week. The 5-day event at San Francisco was packed with product updates, but it was Larry Ellison’s big keynote was what really made a mark. During his lengthy speech the CEO announced a number of new products, along with new direction for his company. ...
Hewlett-Packard Not Selling EDS, But Should
Hewlett-Packard’s stock is down more than 12 percent at a 10-year low of $14.91 after the company said it expects profit for fiscal year 2013 to be between $3.40 and $3.60 per share. Wall Street’s’ consensus estimate was a considerably higher at $4.18 a share. CEO Meg Whitman tried to do some PR damage control ...
SAP’s Big Data Solution for Amazon Wannabes: HANA for B&M Stores
Business intelligence kingpin SAP launched Precision Retailing on Tuesday, a solution that offers customers an Amazon-like experience at the point-of-sale with item recommendations and custom suggestions. The software is joined by a new app, the Retail Store Ops Manager, which was also unveiled at this week’s SAP Retail Forum North America. “Today’s companies want ...
QLogic Q2: an Opportunity to Restore Optimism
QLogic plans to announce financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2013 later this month on the 25th, according to a statement. Last quarter QLogic failed to meet analysts’ expectations with net income of $18.4 million, or 19 cents per share, on sales of $131.3. Revenue in the first quarter of fiscal year ...
Why Mobile and Direct Monetization Will Get Facebook 2 Billion Users
In her latest appearance on the News Desk SiliconANGLE editor Kristen Nicole discussed Facebook’s recent announcement that it has reached one billion active monthly users, and the company’s outlook (full video below). Kristen Nicole considers the milestone a very significant one, and credits it in great part to the ecosystem: Facebook has become the de ...
To Be Blue You Have to Be Green. It’s All About the Watts!
John Hengeveld, the head of marketing for Intel’s supercomputer business, discussed high-performance computing, innovation and big data with John Furrier at the annual Intel Develop Forum conference. Hengeveld, stressing this year’s slogan “in order to be blue you have to be green,” said that today his unit is all about delivering the most performance per ...
Quantcast Open-Sources HDFS Alternative
Audience measurement software maker Quantcast just made a very notable contribution to the open-source community – it released the Quantcast File System (QFS), a “higher performance alternative” for the Hadoop Distributed File System. QFS is fully integrated with Hadoop, uses as little as half the disk space that HDFS would require, and offers better IOPS ...