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Facebook CIO on analytics in the knowledge economy | #HPDiscover
Second only to Google in digital ad revenue, Facebook is setting an example for the enterprise in leveraging web-based data sources to drive business value. Tim Campos, the social networking behemoth’s CIO, sat down with HP Software head George Kadifa at the manufacturer’s recent Discover event in Barcelona to tell attendees and theCUBE viewers how ...
IBM: Christmas Day sales fueled by record mobile traffic
The explosive growth in mobile data traffic contributed to a 16.5 percent increase in overall Christmas Day sales, IBM has found, with smartphones and tablets accounting for nearly half of all e-commerce activity. That’s up from 28.3 percent in 2012, a jump that can be attributed to the rapid expansion of the Internet of Things ...
Mobile will continue to dominate in 2014, insiders agree
With the smartphone revolution soon entering its sixth year, the Internet of Things is fast becoming a reality. As SAP global vice president of mobile strategy Bill Clark explained, technology vendors can no longer afford to ignore mobile when pursuing growth in the ever-crowded enterprise market: platform-agnostic applications are the next frontier for user experience, ...
New report shows government cloud adoption on the rise despite challenges
Pressured to meet new objectives on increasingly tight budgets, more and more government agencies are turning to the cloud in pursuit of operational efficiencies. MarketsandMarkets estimates that federal demand for private, public and hybrid solutions will balloon over the next few years as historically bureaucratic and slow moving departments work to catch up on social ...
Larry Ellison to take AWS head on
With hardware sales down 25 percent and cloud bookings up more than a third, Oracle faces a new set of priorities and more competition than ever, founder and CEO Larry Ellison acknowledged during his firm’s second quarter earnings call. The database giant has committed to following rivals IBM and SAP in transitioning beyond legacy IT ...
Looking ahead in Big Data: industry heavy hitters weigh in on the future of analytics
It’s been an exciting 12 months for IT, with disruptive new trends once confined to the open source community finally cracking the surface of the traditional enterprise. We can expect to see more of that in 2014, a year that the industry’s most prominent voices agree will mark a turning point for technology innovation. At ...
Microsoft buys 202-acre plot for new Washington state data center
Software juggernaut Microsoft is acquiring 202 acres of land in its home state of Washington for a new hydroelectric data center meant to support fast growing demand for its cloud services. The company will shell out $11 million as part of a purchase and sale agreement with the Port of Quincy, which will in exchange ...
Attunity’s Lawrence Schwartz on the intersection of Big Data and the Internet of Things
New sources of information have created an opportunity for decision makers to gain unprecedented insight into the bottom line, but there remain a number of technical barriers to unlocking the true value of Big Data. In a recent interview with SiliconANGLE Senior Editor Kristen Nicole, Lawrence Schwartz, vice president of marketing at Attunity, detailed how ...
Weekly security review: RSA lashes out over bribe allegations, mobile security takes spotlight
RSA, EMC’s security division, was recently dragged into the NSA scandal by a Reuters reporter accusing it of accepting a $10 million bribe from the spy agency to insert a vulnerability into the Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator, or Dual EC DRBG, a widely used cipher implemented by companies worldwide. If the story ...
Internet of Things review: Oculus bags $75M for VR, China joins iPhone craze
The Internet of Things is taking on new heights, with an ever-widening range of connected devices driving an unprecedented shift in the way we interact with technology. A company called Oculus is leading the charge with its namesake virtual reality headset, which succeeded in drawing the interest of both gamers and prominent Silicon Valley investors. ...