This Week in the Cloud: Mobile, Azure Outage, and Security
This past week in the cloud has been a fairly interesting one, in light of the Azure outage and other developments. We also got a glimpse of the new era of increasingly supplicated cyber…
This Week in Big Data: Strata Conference
A lot of big things are going on in the big data world, and this week’s Strata Conference was one of the more significant developments lately. The industry’s best minds met in Santa Clara…
EMC Steps Up Big Data Plans with Greenplum DB 4.2
EMC’s latest product update comes from Greenplum, the PostgreSQL database and analytics software maker it acquired last year. The news is the announcement of Greenplum Database 4.2, which features a whole line of improvements…
Strata Day 3: Event Highlights and Where Big Data Stands Today
This week featured the Strata event, a gathering that’s dedicated to everything big data. It’s an event that has been regularly attended by SiliconANGLE and Wikibon throughout the years. This particular industry has historically…
Public Data Still an Untapped Resource: VIDEO
Virginia Carlson of the Metro Chicago Information Center is attending the Strata Conference for the second time, and stopped by theCube with John Furrier and Jeff Kelly. She shared her take on an area…
What We’ll See from Big Data in 2012: Rivalries, Verticals and More Growth
Wikibon analyst Jeff Kelly has drawn out the likely big data trends we’ll be seeing as we head deeper into 2012: many of which have already set root last year, and are currently growing to…
Strata Conference Day 2: Making Use of the Web’s Pool of Data
Strata Conference 2012 is all about big data, a term that has gotten considerably bigger since last year, thanks to a market-wide shift and companies like Cloudera, HortonWorks and MapR. Yesterday we covered Day…
Talend’s Open-Source Approach to Hadoop is Working [VIDEO]
Yves de Montcheuil, the head of marketing for Talend, stepped into theCube with John Furrier and Wikibon’s Dave Vellante to talk a bit about his company, its announcements from the Strata Conference and the…
SugarSync Pulls in a Sweet $15M in Series D Funding
SugarSync, a freemium service that allows users to share their files and data across multiple devices, earned another very handsome round of VC money. The company raised $15 million in a fourth round of…
Intel Invests in Belgian Storage Startup
Amplidata announced that it has raised $8 million in a third round of funding from investors Big Bang Ventures, Endeavour Vision, Swisscom and Intel Capital, the chipmaker’s VC branch. The Belgium-based company makes object…