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With the smartphone revolution soon entering its sixth year, the Internet of Things is fast becoming a reality. As SAP global vice president of mobile strategy Bill Clark explained, technology vendors can no longer afford to ignore mobile when pursuing growth in …
New report shows government cloud adoption on the rise despite challenges
Pressured to meet new objectives on increasingly tight budgets, more and more government agencies are turning to the cloud in pursuit of operational efficiencies. MarketsandMarkets estimates that federal demand for private, public and hybrid solutions will balloon over the next few years …
Larry Ellison to take AWS head on
With hardware sales down 25 percent and cloud bookings up more than a third, Oracle faces a new set of priorities and more competition than ever, founder and CEO Larry Ellison acknowledged during his firm’s second quarter earnings call. The database giant …
Looking ahead in Big Data: industry heavy hitters weigh in on the future of analytics
It’s been an exciting 12 months for IT, with disruptive new trends once confined to the open source community finally cracking the surface of the traditional enterprise. We can expect to see more of that in 2014, a year that the industry’s …
Microsoft buys 202-acre plot for new Washington state data center
Software juggernaut Microsoft is acquiring 202 acres of land in its home state of Washington for a new hydroelectric data center meant to support fast growing demand for its cloud services. The company will shell out $11 million as part of a …
Attunity’s Lawrence Schwartz on the intersection of Big Data and the Internet of Things
New sources of information have created an opportunity for decision makers to gain unprecedented insight into the bottom line, but there remain a number of technical barriers to unlocking the true value of Big Data. In a recent interview with SiliconANGLE Senior …
Weekly security review: RSA lashes out over bribe allegations, mobile security takes spotlight
RSA, EMC’s security division, was recently dragged into the NSA scandal by a Reuters reporter accusing it of accepting a $10 million bribe from the spy agency to insert a vulnerability into the Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator, or Dual …
Internet of Things review: Oculus bags $75M for VR, China joins iPhone craze
The Internet of Things is taking on new heights, with an ever-widening range of connected devices driving an unprecedented shift in the way we interact with technology. A company called Oculus is leading the charge with its namesake virtual reality headset, which …
Weekly Big Data review: Hadoop gets smarter and more secure
To move beyond the Big Data hype, business users need a new breed of applications that can not only accommodate information growth, but also separate the signal from the noise to improve decision making. These are the kind of apps Resolution Analytics …
Weekly Cloud review: OpenStack, Oracle and Alibaba’s push against AWS
The cloud is expanding in all directions, with end users embracing on-demand software en mass and enterprises increasingly abstracting their traditional IT environments for enhanced provisioning and resource utilization. OpenStack is at the forefront of the latter trend, eliminating proprietary hardware and …