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Rumor has it that Dell intends to lay off a substantial portion of its workforce in what is shaping up to be the company’s largest cost cutting sweep since going private last September. Citing two sources familiar with the matter, British tech …
Early SiliconANGLE contributor Sean Percival now a partner at 500 Startups
Seed investment and accelerator fund 500 Startups today announced that it has recruited two new venture partners, including early SiliconANGLE contributor and serial entrepreneur Sean Percival. Currently the vice president of marketing at Topix, a fast growing local news and forum site, …
Twitter waves white flag in patent wars, strikes compromise with IBM
Being a fast-growing web company with only a handful of patents has made Twitter a natural target of intellectual property bullying. The microblogging was hit with its first infringement lawsuit in 2009 after the Texas-based TechRadium claimed ownership over the concept of …
OpenStack pioneer Chris Kemp says enterprise cloud headed for revolution | #OEForum
Saving the best for last, theCUBE hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante wrapped up the recently concluded OpenStack Enterprise Forum with an in-depth discussion on the private cloud featuring Chris Kemp, an open source visionary who led the development of OpenStack as …
Weekly cloud review: SaaS vendors double down on privacy, expand footpirnt
Cloud computing is sweeping through the enterprise, but the allure of improved productivity and universal access comes at a heavy price, leaving IT organizations struggling to manage the risks introduced by the use of unauthorized – and potentially unsafe – applications. Enter …
Weekly Big Data review: Hadoop, alternative databases march on
Despite the deafening buzz around hyperscale and OpenStack, the Big Data ecosystem continued along on its path of growth this week, with Altiscale pulling the curtains back on a hosted platform built from the ground up to run Hadoop. The newly launched …
What Microsoft’s entry into the Open Compute Project means for hyperscale
Microsoft has long dabbled in consumer electronics, starting with computer accessories in the ‘80s and eventually working its way up to consoles and mobile devices, but Redmond never ventured into the data center hardware market. That is, until this week. The software …
HP tightens HAVEn integration with IDOL 10.5
Hewlett-Packard is pushing ahead in the race to build the first truly enterprise-ready Big Data platform with a new version of IDOL that aims to make it easier than ever to process information from different types of sources. The core capabilities of …
Progress on Open Compute, but Amazon continues to set the pace | #OCPSummit
This week’s Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit in San Jose attracted some of the industry’s most prominent figures, including none other than Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, to set out a vision for hyperscale computing, an emerging paradigm that holds the potential to …
WANdisco launches access control solution for Subversion + Git
WANdisco is expanding its already formidable software configuration management (SCM) portfolio with a new access control solution for Subversion and Git. The offering is geared towards enterprise customers that have to deal with both systems being used by their developers, a scenario …