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Icahn Suffers Another Blow Ahead of Dell Buyout Vote
The group of directors charged with supervising Dell’s sale slammed Carl Icahn’s after he invited fellow stockholders to appraise their shares in the company. The hedge fund giant wrote in a letter that his proposal is a “no-brainer” and involves “no risk” because the law allows investors to withdraw their appraisal proposals within 60 days ...
Rackspace Upgrades Android App with OpenStack Support
Yesterday Rackspace customers were pleasantly surprised to find a new release of the company’s free Android app. The latest version sports a new look and features an array of options for managing cloud deployments on the go. The reworked interface makes it easier to navigate the app and “find exactly what you’re looking for.” It’s ...
Kognitio Chief Innovation Officer on Big Data in the Enterprise
Paul Groom, the chief innovation officer for cloud analytics specialist Kognitio, shared his perspective on the divide between Hadoop and corporate America in a recent chat with SiliconAngle NewsDesk Head Writer Winston Edmondson. Groom perceives the Hadoop community as a somewhat isolated group “on the sharp end of technology.” He believes the biggest hurdle to ...
Netflix’s Jeff Magnusson on Big Data Visualization
Netflix is not only the world’s largest provider of streaming media, but also one of the most prominent contributors to the Hadoop ecosystem. Jeff Magnusson, Netflix’s head of Data Platform Architecture, discussed the open-source technologies his company uses to keep track of consumer trends in an interview with SiliconANGLE NewsDesk Head Writer Winston Edmondson. Winston ...
Qubole CEO Talks Big Data Analytics
SiliconANGLE Head Writer Winston Edmondson caught up with Ashish Thusoo, co-founder and chief executive officer of Qubole, to discuss his company’s Big Data solution. Qubole sells a managed Hadoop cluster called QDS. Thusoo tells Winston that the platform helps users free up resources for innovation by eliminating most of the plumbing work associated with Big ...
[Video] A Sneak Peek Under the Hood of WANdisco’s Big Data Software
WANdisco’s Jagane Sundar and Brett Rudenstein showcased their firm’s new software at Hadoop Summit 2013. SiliconAngle NewsDesk Head Writer Winston Edmonton stopped by their booth to take a look. Winston inquires about WDD 3.6, WANdisco’s S3-enabled distro of the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). Sundar tells him that the platform implements the S3 API, which ...
IBM Storage Sales Chief Says Flash is Driving Value Beyond IT
Enterprise adoption of flash is accelerating due to an exponential rise in data volumes, IBM vice president of global storage sales Sebastian Krause told SiliconAngle founder John Furrier and Wikibon’s Dave Vellante at Edge 2013. He hopped into theCube between keynotes to discuss the state of the market and outline IBM’s billion dollar vision for solid-state ...
ServiceNow Nabs Performance Analytics Firm Mirror42
ServiceNow announced this week that it has bolstered its cloud-based IT service management (ITSM) platform with the acquisition of Mirror42, a Dutch startup that specializes in performance tracking. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, but ServiceNow promised to release more details in conjunction with its second quarter earnings call on July 31. Mirror42’s flagship ...
Data Scientist Salaries Increasingly Lucrative, Especially for Foreign-born Analysts
The Internet of Things is driving up the demand for data scientists, but professionals who possess the skills to turn data into tangible business value are few and far between. The latest report from Burtch Works shows that salaries in the field of analytics are skyrocketing as a result. The Evanston, Illinois-based executive recruiting agency ...
NSA’s Definition of “Relevant” Could Have Major Implications for Consumers
We’ve recently learned that a secret court changed the legal definition of the word “relevant” to further National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance efforts. Wikibon Principal Research Contributor Jeff Kelly discussed the ruling and its implications in a recent interview on SiliconAngle NewsDesk with Kristin Feledy. Jeff says that the government started snooping on American citizens ...