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The Rationale for a Private Dell A Blow to Icahn’s Plans
Michael Dell defended the controversial takeover bid for his company in an elaborate presentation entitled “The Rationale for a Private Dell.” The eight-page slideshow, which he used as part of a pitch to investors in a meeting that took place last Friday, outlines a number of good reasons Dell would (and will, if its founder’s ...
What is the NSA Allowed to Do with Your Data? Everything, Apparently
The latest leak about the PRISM surveillance program exposed that the NSA is authorized to retain users’ personal data for extended periods of time, and share that information with other government agencies. SiliconAngle contributing editor John Casaretto discussed the revelation in recent Q&A session with NewsDesk host Kristin Feledy. Earlier this week, the Guardian published ...
WANdisco Extends Channel Reach with Strategic Alliances
WANdisco, the company that pioneered active-active data replication, teamed up with two Big Data firms in a move to bolster its portfolio with services and third party integration. WANdiso partnered with Zaloni, a North Carolina-based provider of Hadoop solutions, to supply enterprise customers with the know-how needed to deploy the platform in their environments. The ...
Weekly Big Data Review: Change of Management at Cloudera
This week Cloudera’s Mike Olson dropped a bombshell when he revealed that he’s resigning as CEO, and Sqrrl rolled out a new release of its Big Data security platform. Cisco made a few headlines as well after business development VP Hilton Romanski blogged about the acquisition of data virtualization specialist Composite Software. Cloudera, the company ...
Cisco Acquires Composite Software on the Heels of Citrix Partnership
Networking juggernaut Cisco signed a definitive agreement to buy Composite Software, a San Mateo, Calif.-based company that sells data virtualization software and related services. Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco will shell out $180 million in cash and retention-based incentives for the privately-held firm. Composite’s flagship solution is a data abstraction platform that aggregates ...
O’Reilly Velocity Highlights: Web Performance Drives Business Value
TheCube crew attended this week’s Velocity conference to bring you the latest news and analysis from the web development scene. Co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante kicked off the first day of the event with an in-depth discussion about web application performance and the impact of cloud computing on Silicon Valley startups. Dave says that ...
Wikibon: New Players Poised to Disrupt the Network
Two hot new startups are gearing up for an assault on the traditional networking paradigm. Wikibon senior analyst Stu Miniman examined each one and provided his take on their respective technologies in a recent entry on the Wikibon blog. Cumulus Networks is an Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup that came out of stealth earlier this week. The ...
Pexip’s Videoconferencing App Lets Teams Communicate via Any Device
Pexip, an Oslo, Norway-based provider of telepresence software, recently introduced a platform-agnostic video conferencing solution that can support geographically dispersed teams of any size. The company says that Pexip Infinity is compatible with a wide range of endpoints, including mobile devices and popular real-time communications clients such as Microsoft Lync and WebRTC. Pexip Infinity can ...
GE Industrial Internet Wrap-Up: Big Money + Big Challenges
An exciting new twist on the Internet of Things is poised to disrupt our lives in a much more profound way than commercial applications of Big Data. That was the premise of this week’s GE Industrial Internet conference in San Francisco, where General Electric unveiled a new analytics platform in collaboration with Pivotal, Amazon Web ...
O’Reilly Velocity Highlights: Monitoring, QA and More
Representatives from dozens of tech firms arrived in Santa Clara this week to show off their companies’ solutions (and surveys) at O’Reilly Media’s annual Velocity conference. Web monitoring specialist Keynote made a splash with an on-demand analytics platform that lets developers see how their site performs for all of their users, regardless of the device ...