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The human edge of Big Data | #BigDataNYC
The Big Data market is on the verge of a new era, with information becoming more accessible through a combination of self-service capabilities and advanced visualization features. Edd Dumbill, the vice president of strategy for Silicon Valley Data Science, appeared on theCUBE at SiliconANGLE’s recently concluded Big Data NYC 2013 event to share his unique ...
Weekly Cloud Review: Converged infrastructure + developer outreach
With the consumerization of IT sweeping through the enterprise, organizations are increasingly embracing the private cloud in an effort to keep up with the fast-evolving expectations of their end-users. The path to addressing the needs of today’s workforce leads to converged infrastructure, a modular approach to managing data centers that aims to simplify deployment and ...
Internet of Things review: Cisco’s new IoT + Google Glass accessories
It’s go big or go extinct for Cisco, which seeks to adapt its enterprise networking franchise to the burgeoning Internet of Things in a push to capitalize on the coming wave of connected devices. This week at the Internet of Things World Forum in Barcelona, the company announced that it’s consolidating its efforts under a ...
Weekly security review: MongoHQ goes into lockdown
MongoDB hosting company MongoHQ has suffered a breach of its systems on Monday, forcing it to go into lockdown to minimize the damage to users. The attackers reportedly gained access to the firm’s network through a compromised account on an internal employee support application. MongoHQ promptly published a security notice in which it promised to ...
Weekly Big Data review: App development and BI
Not wanting to be overlooked amidst the Hadoop ecosystem’s bold push into the cloud, several prominent vendors decided to stay on the sidelines of the Big Data Week festival. Unified monitoring provider Zenoss led the charge with a major upgrade to its Service Impact solution, which provides near real time insights into application dependencies across ...
Clustrix releases flagship database for online download
Database maker Clustrix has finally released its flagship platform as a standalone download, enabling customers to deploy the software in their own data centers. Previously available only on AWS, the platform comes in two versions: a free community edition that’s limited to 12 cores, and a commercial edition that starts at $1200 per core per ...
Cisco doubles down on video as part of bold Internet of Things push
Networking giant Cisco is sharpening its focus on online video with the H.264 codec for high-definition streaming. The company recently announced that it has open sourced the software in a bid to enhance media quality across both consumer space and the enterprise, where it competes with its line of IP Phones and TelePresence video conferencing ...
Dell now officially private
Twenty five years after making its stock market debut, Dell is now officially private again. Founding CEO Michael Dell and investment partner Silver Lake on Tuesday completed the acquisition of the company for $24.9 billion, two months after activist investor Carl Icahn ended his campaign to derail the privatization process. Under the terms of the ...
Abhi Mehta on Big Data apps | #BigDataNYC 2013
Two years ago, Cloudera’s Mike Olson predicted that 2013 would be the year of Big Data applications. The months have come and gone and an application ecosystem has yet to emerge, but Tresata CEO Abhi Mehta says that’s about to change. He believes the industry is finally moving up the stack. Starting with a little ...
Dell shows off first 64-bit ARM server
Low-cost and low-power mobile processors are making their way into data centers as organizations adopt hyperscale architectures to keep up with the rapid growth in unstructured information. Hardware maker Dell is pushing into this space as part of an effort to stay competitive in the increasingly commoditized server market. The company is demonstrating its first ...