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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 ...
Analysis: the changing Hadoop landscape | #BigDataNYC
SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier and Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly converged in theCUBE on the second day of SiliconANGLE’s Big Data NYC 2013 summit to share their perspectives on the evolving Hadoop ecosystem. Vellante observes that the commoditization of IT is shifting the industry focus from infrastructure and the lower layers of the analytics ...
The Revolution Analytics perspective on Big Data | #BigDataNYC
When it comes to Big Data, it’s “one thing to be able to query it, but it’s another thing to be able to actually ask that data meaningful questions,” according to Revolution Analytics head of marketing and community David Smith. The executive dropped by theCUBE at SiliconANGLE’s recent Big Data NYC 2013 summit to discuss ...
IBM’s James Kobielus on analytics and the Internet of Things | #IBMIoD
James Kobielus, a former analyst turned IBM Big Data evangelist, dropped by theCUBE at Information on Demand 2013 to share his unique insight into how analytics and the Internet of Things are reshaping user experience. Over the past decade, the digital tide wave has disrupted entire industries while making social media a fixture of modern ...
Kim Dotcom’s Mega goes after Apple users with iOS client
Mega, the self-proclaimed “Privacy Company,” is moving deeper into the mobile universe with a new iOS application. Released five months after Kim Dotcom’s online storage service hit Google Play, the client enables users to manage their cloud folders, share links to specific files, view photos and read messages from their MEGA contacts. The free downloadable ...
Virident’s post-merger strategy : Flash storage + software | #oow13
Ken Grohe, Virident’s vice president of worldwide customer operations, returned to theCUBE at Oracle OpenWorld 2013 to discuss the latest developments from his company and the use cases that are driving flash adoption in the enterprise. In September, hard drive maker Western Digital announced that Virident was merging with its HGST subsidiary in a $685 ...
Symantec’s cloud locker falls victim to mobile revolution
Faltering demand for personal computers has led Symantec to shut down its Backup Exec.cloud service, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The company is pulling the plug on the cloud locker in an effort to slim down and refocus on the rapidly growing mobile market, the new frontier for endpoint security and data protection. Backup Exec.cloud is ...
Dell unenthusiastic about HP Way Now, encourages remote working
Following in the footsteps of Yahoo! boss Marisa Mayer, Meg Whitman last month revised Hewlett-Packard’s historically liberal remote working policies as part of a new turnaround strategy dubbed HP Way Now. The framework necessitates “all hands on deck,” according to an internal memo, which means that employees are now required to work from the office. ...