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Write for Android Tops the Business Tablet Apps List this Week
This week’s featured app is Write for Android. There are plenty of apps designed for note-taking, on the go project management and other organization-related tasks, but there are considerably less that are dedicated to pure creativity. Write is one such platform, and seems to have nailed a lot of features the mobile worker needs, from ...
More Details on Juniper Earnings: Profit Taking a Big Hit
Juniper Networks is facing tempered market reaction four days ahead of its first quarter earnings call – the stock is already trading at $21.16, a decline of no less than eight percent. The main reason behind the share price drop is a consensus estimate of 7 centers per share in Q1 — a 72 percent ...
This Week in Big Data: Splunk IPO, Deep-Space Funding and Cloud
This week in big data has certainly been a very exciting one for Wall Street, not to mention the two companies that managed to earn themselves a huge financial boost. The first one is Splunk, which went public this week. It offers solutions that analyze machine data and logs, aggregate it all, and reformats the ...
EMC Sales Down Due to New Product Expectations, CEO Says
“Customers expecting that will not be disappointed, and it’s coming soon” said Joe Tucci, the chief executive of EMC during his company’s earnings call today. Tucci was referring to a decline in demand for high-end storage equipment; what EMC says is a direct result of companies supposedly holding off their purchases in anticipation of a ...
This Week in the Cloud: Rackspace, Big Data and Titanium 2.0
This week in the cloud was a fairly unusual one, in that we have seen not one but three big announcements marketing the convergence of at least two trends in the cloud. First up is Rackspace’s news. The web host revealed a massive commitment to OpenStack, an initiative it conceived only two years, by migrating ...
NAB Final Recap: New Value, New Ways of Making Big Data Work
TheCube has been streaming content throughout the entirety of this week’s NAB conference. John Furrier and Dave Vellante reflected on their observations at the end of each day, and summarized some of the key highlights. Day 2 focused on the technology that’s helping to transform traditional media. Vellante looked at the different role of storage ...
Fusion-io Offers Flash SDK to Software Devs
Fusion-io makes flash storage that can credit a tremendous amount of its popularity to the sophisticated software powering it, such as the Atomic Writes I/O cutting extension. The company is responsible for slowly pushing SSDs into mainstream IT, and its new SDK is certainly underscoring this goal. Fusion-io announced today its first software development kit ...
W2O Expands to Big Data with Ravel Merger
The W2O Group, an alliance of companies that run marketing and outsourced development, has achieved a foothold in the analytics space with the acquisition of Ravel. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Ravel is a big data firm best known for GoldenOrb, a graph algorithm execution framework that borrows components from Hadoop and a ...
NAB Recap: Big Data, Mobile Backup and Flash
The NAB conference brought thousands of experts under one roof to share their unique insight on one area or another, and to demo their companies’ new products. There were quite a few announcements at the gathering, and a handful managed to catch our eye. The first update is from Aspera, which didn’t reveal a new ...
The NAB Media Angle: from Wall Street to Social Broadcasting
The NAB conference covers a massive area within the media industry (many of which SiliconANGLE and theCube pick up as well), and all of the attending pundits are quick to give their unique takes on one segment or another. Marty Shindler, the founding CEO of a major entertainment consultancy, is one of them. He moderated ...