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IBM and chipmaker NVIDIA have joined forces to push the data center envelope with “supercharged” servers that feature the secret sauce behind how Watson processes information faster than any human. The pair plans to integrate NVIDIA’s Tesla GPUs with the chips powering …
IBM doubles down security with Fiberlink acquisition, aggressive academic partnering
IBM is continuing its acquisition streak with the purchase of Fiberlink Communications, a Philadelphia-based software company that develops mobile device management and security solutions. No financial terms were disclosed. Fiberlink is best known for its MaaS360 platform, a cloud-based service that is …
Syncsort CEO on making the jump from the mainframe to Hadoop | #re:Invent2013
Hadoop presents an attractive value proposition for storing and processing large volumes of unstructured information, but it lacks certain enterprise features and requires specialized talent that is inaccessible to all but the wealthiest organizations. Companies that do not fall under this category …
Amazon’s Terry Hanold on buying and selling software in the cloud | #re:Invent2013
Amazon maintains a dominant position in both online retail and cloud computing, opposite ends of the e-commerce spectrum that have very little in common besides the delicate balance between buyers and sellers. Terry Hanold, the vice president of cloud commerce for AWS, …
Cloudera partners with Udacity for online Big Data classes
Cloudera is seeking to bridge the Big Data knowledge gap – and ensure that the market sustains its momentum for years to come – through education. The Hadoop distributor has joined forces with Udacity, a Mountain View, California-based provider of massive open …
AWS head of business development on driving value in the ecosystem | #re:Invent2013
The ecosystem is becoming an increasingly valuable source of growth for Amazon, with thousands of companies offering a wide range of products and services atop AWS. Terry Wise, the director of business development for the retail giant’s cloud business, boasts of signing …
AWS Big Data chief talks real time analytics | #re:Invent2013
It was an action packed week at re:Invent 2013. From making the cloud more transparent to challenging VMware to introducing a stream processing service for the masses, Amazon didn’t stop for a breather – and neither did we. The man behind it …
Chromebook 11 no longer available due to customer safety concerns
Hewlett Packard and Google have stopped selling the HP Chromebook 11 after receiving a “small number” of complaints that the power supply provided with the machine overheats, the pair announced in a statement this week. Citing anonymous sources with inside knowledge of …
Splunk and Ford collaborate on smart car analytics
Futurist, filmmaker and theCUBE alumnus Jason Silva predicts that sensory data will help reshape our individual and collective destinies, improving our lives in “ways we could never have conceived before.” But while Silva’s Human 2.0 revolution will likely remain in science fiction …
Cerego uses data to help tomorrow’s health professionals study better
It’s been almost a year since Cerego exited stealth with an ambitious memory management tool that marries elements of psychology and applied learning with self-optimizing algorithms to bring education into the twenty-first century. The platform uses these algorithms to identify students’ strengths …