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The Internet of Things is the Next Source of Value for CIOs
The billions of sensors and connected devices that make up the Internet of Things are a powerful source of business insights and competitive advantage, according to The 1610 Group founder and managing consultant Scott Lowe. He provided an overview of this topic in his latest Wikibon alert. Lowe points that Big Data doesn’t always live ...
Fast-Food News for Today’s Professionals: Newsle “Consumerizes” Big Data
Newsle, an ambitious San Fransico-based startup that specializes in news aggregation, just raised $1.65 million from American City Business Journals, a subsidiary of Advance Publications. Maveron, DFJ, Transmedia Capital and angel investors Launny Steffens and Rockwell Schnabel also participated in the round. Whitney Shaw, the president of the American City Business Journal, is joining Newsle’s ...
QLogic Has Ace Up Its Sleeve After CEO’s Surprise Resignation
Simon Biddiscombe, the chief executive officer and president of QLogic, left his post to “pursue other opportunities” in an abrupt move that took many by surprise. Chief technology officer Jean Hu has assumed the role of interim CEO until a permanent replacement is found. Stifel Nicolaus analyst Aaron Rakers thinks that Biddiescombe, who joined QLogic ...
Nutanix Gets Greenlight from Citrix, Releases Reference Architecture
Nutanix boasts that it has achieved Citrix Ready status after completing a “rigorous” process to ensure that its offering is fully compatible with XenDesktop. The certification is a big win for Nutanix because virtualization is one of the top use cases for its flagship Virtual Computing Platform appliance, and Citrix is the VMware of VDI. ...
Dell Cautious about Icahn’s Bid Amidst Push to Reform Declining Sales
Activist investor Carl Icahn and Southwest Asset Management have joined forces to buy Dell in a move that put Silver Lake Partners and founder Michael Dell in the backseat. Silver Lake and Dell are offering $24.4 billion for the company, the equivalent of $13.65 a share. Icahn, Southwest and other investors believe that the firm ...
For Data Artists, Not Stats Nerds : Alteryx Bags $12M for Simplified Analytics
Alteryx, an Irvine-based firm whose stated goal is to “humanize” Big Data, just raised $12 million in financing from SAP Ventures and Toba Capital, a recently established VC led by Quest Software founder Vinny Smith. This latest round brings the company’s total funding to $18 million. “SAP Ventures saw the potential in Alteryx in 2011 ...
Cloud Review: App Deployment, Google and Mobile
Last week ComodIT introduced a new solution that helps users deploy backend server applications, Google had a couple of major service updates, and Sauce Labs launched a hosted testing platform for mobile developers. ChatWork also made a splash when it came out with two new features and announced that its offering has officially become available ...
SAP CEOs Say HANA is Much More than Just a Database
TheCube crew flew to Orlando this week to bring you the latest news and analysis from SAP Sapphire 2013. SiliconAngle Editor-in-Chief John Furrier attended the keynote panel with SAP co-CEOs Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe and asked the question that was on everyone’s mind: if HANA is not merely a database solution for SAP ...
Google’s Seth Sternberg On G+ Sign-In
SiliconAngle editor-in-chief Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins caught up with Seth Sternberg, the product management director for Google+, to discuss the latest upgrades to the search giant’s homegrown social network. The first new feature Sternberg highlights is the multi-platform sign-in capability that lets Android users to log into their apps using their Google+ accounts. This addition is ...
Stakeholder Campaigns for NetApp Board Reshuffle
NetApp’s stock price soared 6.2 percent, the biggest gain since November 2012, after an anonymous tipster told Bloomberg that one of its stakeholders is pushing for changes to the company’s board of directors and agenda. As of Wednesday, Elliot Management, the activist hedge fund founded by billionaire Paul Singer, owned 4.1 million shares in NetApp. ...