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smartShift’s Arjun Chopra on moving traditional enterprises to the Cloud | #re:Invent2013
Arjun Chopra, the chief technology officer of smartShift Technologies, appeared on theCUBE at Amazon’s recently concluded re:Invent 2013 conference to share his insider’s perspective on porting legacy workloads to the public cloud. An AWS Premier Consulting Partner, smartShift helps enterprises re-architect their on-premise applications before shipping them off to an infrastructure-as-a-service environment. That involves removing ...
LucidWorks brings multi-structured data analytics to Splunk
In the enterprise, the exponential growth of information is driving the need for a consistent and highly scalable data access layer that can keep up with an ever-expanding workload, while also meeting the performance requirements of end-users. LucidWorks is taking a fresh approach to this challenge with a unique development platform that utilizes open source ...
IBM: Black Friday web sales surge thanks to mobile
Mobile shoppers are out in force this holiday season. After sifting through terabytes of transactional data from about 800 U.S. retail websites, IBM found that Black Friday deals on smartphones and tablets accounted for 21.8 percent of total online sales, an increase of nearly 43 percent from last year. “We’re off to an incredibly fast ...
Sumo Logic doesn’t want to cut humans out the data loop | #re:invent2013
Sumo Logic has positioned itself at the forefront of the Internet of Things with a cloud-based machine data analytics solution that empowers organizations to tame the rapid growth in information without a hefty upfront capital investment. Bruno Kurtic, the firm’s founding vice president of product and strategy, dropped by theCUBE at re:Invent 2013 to go ...
Apps Associates VP on AWS in the enterprise | #re:Invent2013
Bill Saltys, the vice president of US operations and business development at Apps Associates, hopped into theCUBE during Amazon’s re:Invent 2013 conference in Las Vegas to share his take on the public cloud value proposition. App Associates is a privately-held provider of IT services and solutions that specializes in Oracle environments. Founded in 2002, the ...
MongoDB co-founder talks developer productivity and Big Data | re:Invent2013
DevOps and MongoDB have a few things in common. According to Eliot Horowitz, the co-founder and CTO of the database company, both deliver on the promise of accelerating time-to-market by enabling developers to focus on their ideas instead of getting bogged down in plumbing. He dropped by theCUBE at Amazon’s landmark re:Invent 2013 summit to ...
Analysis: Hadoop in the enterprise | #BigDataNYC
The Hadoop ecosystem is evolving at a staggering pace, with SQL querying already fading into the background as real-time analytics and YARN take the center stage, spawning new use cases and broadening the application of Big Data in the enterprise. SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier and Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly took a break from ...
Internet of Things review: OS landscape gets a facelift + next-gen credit cards
The fierce competition in the Internet of Things is spilling over into the software layer as operating system vendors battle for dominance in tomorrow’s interconnected world. Google is leading the charge with Android KitKat, the latest release of its mobile OS. KitKat is pegged as a “smarter, more immersive” version of Android featuring unified communications, ...
Weekly Security review: NSA, Bitcoin robbers at it again
Quite a few familiar headlines cropped up this week, with Edward Snowden leaking yet more classifying documents detailing the NSA’s cyber-espionage operations. The latest reports indicate that the agency infiltrated tens of thousands of networks around the world using specialized hardware designed from the ground up to collect sensitive information. A slide dated 2012 outlines ...
Weekly Cloud review: online storage and Healthcare.gov
It’s been an exciting week for both the cloud ecosystem and Apple users, with Kim Dotcom’s Mega introducing a free iOS app that comes with nearly all the features of the website, including the ability to manage lockers and share file and folder links with account contacts. Additionally, you can stream photos and videos, read ...