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YouTube is Looking for Quality Content, and Will to Pay for it
YouTube has been trying to get over its low resolution piano-playing cats for quite a while, and now we’ve learned of a couple new strides the Google-owned network has done to better preserve its hold of the market. According to some rumors picked up by Time, sources say Google is looking to pay around $4,000 ...
Gluster Joins the OpenStack Club
Open-source is one of the biggest trends in IT, sweeping through the cloud as new standards and demands develop. Improved integration and cost-efficiency are huge benefits and proprietary offerings lack in comparison. That being said, Gluster just hopped on one of the biggest bandwagon in the segment. The open source storage virtualization software vendor today announced it ...
Intel Targets Micros Servers with Upcoming Sub-10-Watt Atom Server Chip
During a “microserver” briefing in San Francisco, Intel execs disclosed the company plans to launch a less than 10-watt version of its Atom processor in 2012, as well as a sub-15-watt Xeon powered by the Sandy Bridge architecture arriving later this year. Around the same time we can also look out for the Intel Micro ...
Radley + Co Bags Big Data Back-up with FalconStor
So far the tech industry did a pretty good job, given the cloud is taking over the world, and the most recent real-life example of big data tools put to use comes from Radley + Co. Today the London-based luxury retailer announced it has deployed FalconStor Continuous Data Protector (CDP) on its almost entirely virtualized ...
The Future Is Now: Ray Kurzweil Predictions Come to Life
This infographic lays out what futurist Ray Kurzweil had to say about computing as early as 20 years ago – and evidently, some of those things did come to life. Kurzweil believes the growth of computing power is not linear but exponential, which seems to correlate with the achievement of 107 calculations per second back ...
You’d Need 65M Tweets to Fill the Grand Canyon
This infographic by Rackspace puts the quantities of the data we use in a pretty entertaining real-world perspective, and demonstrates the main driver behind the booming personal cloud management trend fairly well. After Memolane timelined your social history, and DEMO Spring 2011 introduced half a dozen new personal cloud centralization products, you can start measuring ...
SiliconANGLE at SxSWi: PostPost and Yolink
SxSWi is one of the biggest events in tech held now in Austin, Texas, and SiliconANGLE is out in the field doing a whole lot of interviewing. Our Editor in Chief Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins sat down with developer and author of the book Personal MBA Josh Kaufman a couple days back, and now personal cloud ...
Couchbase Announces First Cloud Product, Introduces Board of Advisors
Couchbase, a NoSQL company formed after the merger of CouchOne and Membase, had a couple of big announcements today. The first is the launch of its first product, the open source Couchbase Server. Couchbase Server is based on the world’s most deployed NoSQL solution, Apache CouchDB, which is the core database behind Canonical’s Ubuntu One ...
SAP and IBM Partnership, Suit Up to Bring Down Oracle
SAP announced it has integrated its in-memory High-Performance Analytic Appliance (HANA) with IBM’s DB2 database, which gives the two companies’ rivalry against Oracle and its Exadata platform a serious boost from the (near) real-time big data analytics view. “The integration is enabled by SAP’s Sybase Replication Server, which SAP gained through the acquisition of that ...
SxSW Interview: John Kaufman, Author of the Personal MBA
SiliconANGLE’s Editor-in-Chief Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins interviewed Josh Kaufman at SxSWi 2011, author of the book Personal MBA aimed at helping entrepreneurs get the knowledge they need to start a business without getting an MBA. Kaufman, a programmer by nature, became an assistant brand manager at Procter & Gamble by the time he graduated from college, ...