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Meet the New Google Glass Rival
Wearable technology is on track to becoming a full-blown trend. A Mountain View, Calif.-based startup called Atheer recently came out with a platform-agnostic interface that can run on any device, namely those that are small enough to wear. The startup’s technology combines stereoscopic 3-D and gesture recognition to deliver many of the capabilities that are ...
Hadoop Summit Recap: Then and Now
The sixth annual Hadoop Summit is only three weeks away. The event will be hosted by Yahoo! and Hortonworks, two Big Data leaders that have come a long way in the past year. Now is as good a time as any to reflect on the state of the industry in 2012. In the beginning, Hortonworks ...
Big Data Review: Facial Recognition, Light-speed Data and More
Last week featured a number of interesting highlights. A company called Lambda Labs developed a facial recognition solution for Google Glass, researchers have discovered a way to accelerate data transfer speeds much more cost effectively than before, and the CIA’s VC arm bought a stake in a rapidly growing flash startup. Yahoo also made headlines ...
Adobe’s Eric Elliot Discusses JavaScript Trends
Eric Elliot, an Adobe engineer and author of the book “Programming JavaScript Applications,” stopped by theCube at the O’Reilly Fluent Conference to share his take on JavaScript, cloud computing, and everything in between. Elliot starts the interview by telling SiliconAngle’s John Furrier and Jeff Frick that JavaScript has an “interesting trajectory.” He reflects that the ...
Weekly Cloud Review: Google Revamps Gmail, Yahoo Submits Bid for Hulu and More
A number of major cloud developments cropped up this week. We’ve learned that a major Gmail upgrade is in the works, Yahoo agreed to shell out over $500 million to buy Hulu, and Hewlett-Packard announced a set of platforms, apps and products for enterprise developers. A number of ambitious startups also earned themselves a spot ...
SuccessFactors Founder Lars Dalgaard Signs Up with Andreessen Horowitz
Andreessen Horowitz snagged SAP’s famed cloud boss to inject more synergy into its investment operations and boost entrepreneurs’ leadership mojo. Ben Horowitz blogged the news on Thursday. Lars Dalgaard has an impressive resume. SAP brought him on board to head its Cloud Business and serve on its Executive Board and Global Managing Board after it ...
Terremark’s Jim Anthony Reveals the New eCloud
Terremark’s representatives showed up at that EMC World 2013 conference in Las Vegas to spread the word about the new functionality that was recently added to Enterprise Cloud (eCloud) platform, the firm’s highly configurable infrastructure-as-a-service solution. SiliconAngle Head Writer Winston Edmonton interviewed Jim Anthony, the vice president of sales engineering at Terremark, to bring you ...
EMC World 2013 Panel: The Cloud is Transforming IT – Here’s How
The cloud is driving new business models in the enterprise, forcing IT departments and service providers to adjust in the face of changing demands and increased competition. Wikibon co-founder and chief analyst Dave Vellante addressed this trend at EMC World 2013, where he hosted a panel discussion featuring three prominent business and technology leaders: Sean ...
Jason Mendenhall of Switch on the Value of Ecosystems
SiliconAngle Head Writer Winston Edmondson caught up with Switch Communications’ Jason Mendenhall at EMC World 2013 to get his take on co-location, connectivity, and the value of a strong cloud ecosystem. Switch fancies itself the world’s best coloc provider. The company operates a 2.2 million square foot data center in Las Vegas that its founding ...
HP: Demand for Traditional Storage Down, Opportunities Lie in Converged Storage
Hewlett-Packard held its second quarter earnings call earlier this week. The hardware behemoth’s revenue fell short of analysts’ expectation but its guidance for the third quarter beat the Street’s estimates by a noticeable margin. More notably, the company revealed that its storage business is collapsing under its own weight. Demand for HP’s converged storage solutions ...