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Homes.com Development Director : Splunk + User Engagement | #splunkconf2013
Speaking to theCUBE hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante at the recently concluded Splunk Worldwide Users’ Conference, Robert Osborne, the director of application development and systems at Homes.com, remarked that Big Data has transformed the online real estate market. The fifth largest portal for home listings, his website is riding this trend into uncharted territory. ...
Machine Data Analytics Gets a Boost from Glassbeam’s Cutting Edge SCALAR Software
Glassbeam is hoping to carve out a slice of the Splunk-dominated machine data analytics market with a new cloud-based service for tapping operational data. Dubbed SCALAR, the software brings structure to the Internet of Everything with a proprietary language that helps engineers describe information in large-scale data warehouse environments. SCALAR runs Glassbeam’s Semiotic Parsing Language ...
VMware Spices Up Cloud Wars with DaaS Buy, New Software Releases
At the VMworld 2013 in Barcelona, Pat Gelsinger’s VMware showed that it’s serious about moving beyond the hypervisor and into value-added services that utilize virtualization to help customers drive tangible business value. The company kicked off the event with the acquisition of Desktone, a Chelmsford, MA-based provider of VDI-as-a-service that is credited with pioneering the ...
Weekly Security Review: Google, NSA At It Again
Security and privacy have been dragged into the limelight once again this week with the revelation that Google Chrome, the browser of choice for over 53 percent of all internet users, fails to adequately protect personal information. Identity Finder claims that there are “dozens of well-known exploits” to access files stored in Chrome, which can ...
Internet of Things Review: Fitness Bands and Phablets
The Internet of Things keeps getting bigger. Jumping into the fray, sportswear giant Nike is launching a new iteration of its popular fitness band to make it easier for users to check their progress throughout the day. Unveiled during a sold-out company event on Tuesday, the Nike+ FuelBand SE is available in three new colors: ...
Weekly Big Data Review: Visualization Highlight
Data visualization took center stage this week with the launch of Sonar Solo, a new tool for analyzing Twitter trends. Developed by Bottlenose, the app provides near real time visibility into social activity via a graphical interface that displays a wide range of sentiment indicators, from citation volumes to the tweet velocity of a given ...
Weekly Cloud Review: Service Market Heats Up
It’s been an interesting week for the platform-as-a-service market. Following in Google’s lead, Russian search giant Yandex announced that it’s jumping headfirst into the cloud fray with a new tool for creating web hosting apps. Dubbed Cocaine, the open source platform utilizes the increasingly popular Docker container engine to address the complexity and performance issues ...
VDI Poised for Growth: Wikibon
VMware is acquiring VDI-as-a-service provider Desktone as part of a push to dent Citrix’s dominance in the desktop virtualization space. Announced this week at the VMworld 2013 Europe conference in Barcelona, the deal underscores what Wikibon Senior Analyst Stu Miniman perceives as the “steady growth” of the virtual desktop infrastructure market. In a fresh piece ...
Tintri Snags Former Wind River President to Accelerate Growth
Tintri, a Mountain View-based startup that provides hybrid storage arrays for virtualized environments, has appointed Ken Klein as chairman and CEO. The executive is stepping into the shoes of founder Kieran Harty, who has assumed the role CTO to play a more active role in shaping his company’s product strategy. An industry veteran with over ...
Bottlenose Visualizes Twitter Firehose Trends with Sonar Solo
Delivering on its commitment to freemium analytics, Bottlenose is rolling out a free version of its newly announced Nerve Center solution for processing streaming data. The startup is filling a much-needed gap in information rights as consumers increasingly expect – and demand – visibility into their personal data exhaust. Unveiled today at the Pivot Conference ...