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Accessibility has turned out to be the unifying theme for analytics this week, with a slew of updates pushing the envelope on ingesting and processing data. Taking the cake is Facebook’s decision to open-source Haxl, an internally-developed library designed to make it …
At HP, change starts at the top | #HPdiscover
When Meg Whitman took over the reins as the CEO of Hewlett-Packard in 2011, the former eBay head and one time candidate for California governor told investors she will turn the struggling hardware maker around within five years. Three and half years …
Nokia bolsters location services with two Big Data buys in two weeks
Nokia may no longer be in the business of making smartphones and tablets, but that doesn’t mean it can be crossed off in the mobile race just yet. The sale of its handset business to Microsoft for roughly $7.2 billion left the …
Insider chatter suggests Cisco’s next for major leadership change
Four months after the appointment of Satya Nadella as Microsoft’s CEO, rumors are swirling that another major technology company is gearing up for a leadership shakeup that could prove no less significant for the industry. A new report by veteran analyst and …
SiSense, Robin Hood of Big Data, bags $30M to democratize analytics
Of the hundreds of startups that sprang up in the wake of the data explosion to help organizations bring their vast troves of unstructured information under control, SiSense is among the most convincing. The company, which describes itself as the “Robin Hood” …
Jaspersoft fuels innovation groove with another acquisition
Maintaining momentum after an acquisition is easier said than done in the world of enterprise computing, especially when the purchasing company is a traditional vendor and the new team is coming from a startup environment with a fast-paced culture to match. But …
Infrastructure is the name of the game at HP Discover 2014
Hewlett-Packard has not left a stone unturned at its HP Discover summit this week, unloading a slew of products as part of a two-pronged push into the hybrid cloud and the high-performance computing market, where it had long maintained a position as …
Data protection in the era of unstructured information | #EMCWorld
A lot has changed at Brown since Nancy Magers, the university’s associate director of storage and disaster recovery, last appeared on theCUBE in April. The Ivy League school is now finally starting to see the first fruits of its years-long data center …
QLogic mourns chairman’s sudden passing
Data center networking equipment maker QLogic announced on Monday that H.K. Desai, a long time company veteran who most recently served as executive chairman and the head of its board, has passed away Sunday from sudden cardiac arrest. He was 68. Desai …
Hadoop security back in the spotlight
Data security is becoming an even bigger priority than it has been so far as organizations extract more value from their fast-growing data troves, but Hadoop, the single most popular platform for storing and processing vast swaths of unstructured information, falls short …