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Can FireFox OS Overtake Android in the Low-end Smartphone Market?
Mozilla recently pulled the curtains back on the ZTE Open, a $90 phone that runs on FireFox OS. SiliconANGLE Contributing Editor John Casaretto shared his take on the browser maker’s push into the mobile market in a Q&A with NewsDesk host Kristin Feledy. John tells Kristin that Mozilla is eyeing a stake in the low-end ...
Weekly Security Review: FireEye Eyes IPO, Google Chrome Exposes Passwords
This past week featured a number of developments in the ever-evolving security space. Enterprise security specialist FireEye filed for an initial public offering, a software designer stumbled upon an undiscovered Chrome vulnerability, and the FBI shut down Freedom Hosting using a zero-day FireFox flaw. In related news, an anonymous tipster leaked new details about the ...
Hortonworks Co-Founder Jumps Ship
Hortonworks chief executive officer Rob Bearden confirmed the departure of co-founder and CTO Eric Baldeschwieler in a Tuesday entry on the company’s blog. He did not disclose the reason behind Baldeschwieler’s resignation, but instead took the opportunity to recap on the former Yahoo executive’s contributions to Hortonworks and the Hadoop ecosystem. “It’s hard to believe ...
Fusion-io Adds Business Objects Exec to Board of Directors
Two weeks after Hewlett Packard added a former Microsoft chief software architect and two other corporate big wigs to its board, Fusion-io announced that it has appointed John Olsen as a director. The veteran executive brings more than 30 years of industry experience to the company. Olsen served as president and chief operating officer of ...
EMC Chief Database Architect Shares Oracle Data Protection Best Practices
Darryl Smith, the chief database architect for EMC’s IT organization, stopped by Wikibon headquarters to share his insights into managing large-scale Oracle deployments. Smith starts the interview by providing a little background about himself. He has worked with Oracle databases since 1988, and today he is is responsible for protecting, maintaining and future-proofing EMC’s massive ...
Sqrrl CTO Explains How to Bring Structure to a Schema-less Database
In the fourth episode of theCube’s special series on Accumulo, Sqrrl founding CTO Adam Fuchs discusses how his company’s platform helps enterprises organize their NoSQL environments. Fuchs opens the session with an overview of the system. Accumulo limits querying to a range within a keyspace, he explains, and that range represents a hierarchical structure which ...
Splunk + Pentaho for Non-Geeks : Unlocking the Value of Machine Data
Splunk has partnered with data integration specialist Pentaho to deliver a new solution for crunching data generated by applications, servers, sensors and other connected devices. Pentaho Business Analytics and Splunk Enterprise combines technology from both firms to integrate Splunk’s machine data analytics technology with relational databases, Hadoop, NoSQL deployments and enterprise application data. The platform ...
VMware Nabs SAP’s Sanjay Poonen, Shares Thoughts on Cloud Ecosystem
VMware announced Tuesday morning that Sanjay Poonen is taking over as the head of its end-user computing group. Poonen holds two patents, as well as an MBA from Harvard Business School and a master’s degree from Stanford University. He began his career as an engineer for Microsoft, and advanced to executive positions at prominent tech ...
Sqrrl CTO Explains the Secret Behind Accumulo’s Near Real-Time Performance
Adam Fuchs, the co-creator of Accumulo and the founding CTO of Sqrrl, gave an exclusive whiteboard explanation of his company’s technology on SiliconANGLE’s theCube. Accumulo is a highly secure, disk-based key-value store that combines Google’s BigTable storage system with innovations Fuchs and his colleagues developed as part of their work for the NSA. It utilizes ...
SAP Completes Acquisition of Cloud Ecommerce Specialist Hybris
SAP has finally completed the acquisition of hybris, a Switzerland-based provider of cross-platform commerce and transaction management solutions. Terms of the deal, which was originally announced in June, were not disclosed. “SAP and hybris will deliver the next-generation customer experience for businesses and consumers in a world where digital and physical converge seamlessly,” said Bill ...