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Where DreamWorks Meets Converged Infrastructure : HP
Hewlett-Packard just released a case study that details its collaboration with DreamWorks Animation on the production of The Croods, an animated family film that debuted in theaters today. The studio has been a client of HP since 2001. The vendor says that The Croods required over 80 million render hours to generate visual images from ...
Why Microsoft Debuts Hadoop Offering a Year Behind Schedule [VIDEO]
This week Microsoft finally unveiled HDInsight, its long-awaited Hadoop service. Wikibon analyst Jeff Kelly discussed the launch and what it means for cloud-based analytics with Kristin Feledy on the SiliconAngle NewsDesk show. Microsoft promised that it would roll out the offering at this time last year, but it was only made available to select testers a ...
Can QLogic Turn FabricCache into a Cash Cow?
QLogic just started shipping FabricCache, the first solution that’s built on its revolutionary Mt. Rainer technology. Wikibon analyst Stu Miniman discussed the new product, and the competition, on this morning’s SiliconAngle NewsDesk show with Kristin Feledy (full video below). Server-side flash delivers better performance and less latency than traditional solutions, but it does have its ...
WANdisco Files Three Patents for Big Data Computing
WANdisco‘s been busy. Disrupting an industry undergoing massive change in the data center, and trademarking patents to boot. The Big Data company disclosed that it has recently filed three patents with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The patent applications cover three innovations that “involve methods, devices and systems that enhance security, reliability, flexibility and ...
BB Z10 Security Issues Lie in Native Programs – Could Be a Hard Flaw to Fix
One of BlackBerry’s biggest perks is its high security, appealing to corporate executives and government officials alike. And as the phone-maker struggles to regain its market leadership, BlackBerry faces obstacles in the UK. This week, the UK’s Communications-Electronics Security Group rejected BlackBerry 10 OS as not secure enough for classified material. The CESG certified the ...
What’s the Difference Between Hyperscale and Traditional Enterprise IT?
Hyperscale storage is becoming an increasingly viable option for the datacenter, with industry heavyweights putting more resources into the software behind technology. Most recently we’ve seen a string of hyperscale product releases from Fusion-io, where smarter software was key to managing this level of datacenter restructuring. Here to break down the differences between hyperscale storage ...
Xbox Hack Attack Leaves Microsoft Employees Exposed [Video]
Seems everyone’s getting hacked these days. Just this week Microsoft revealed that the Xbox Live accounts of several high-ranking employees were hijacked using the same method that hackers used to bully Brian Krebs, a security expert turned blogger who recently uncovered an underground hacker marketplace. SiliconAngle founding editor Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins discussed the latest news ...
What Drives Alpha Geeks? Crunching Data for the Greater Good
We talk about the technology behind Big Data a great deal, but it’s important to remember the large scale implications of what Big Data becomes once it’s been contextualized for the human experience. Big Data technology can do some amazing calculations, but that’s a meaningless unless those calculations can help people help themselves. And who ...
Sqrrl Appoints New CEO to Spearhead Big Data Security Push
This morning, sqrrl announced that Mark Terenzoni will be taking over as company’s chief executive officer. The newly appointed CEO brings twenty years of experience to the Cambridge-based startup, which was founded in 2012 by the team behind Apache Accumulo. Terenzoni joins sqrrl from F5 Networks, where he served as the senior vice president of ...
Itanium Damage Done, HP Wants $4 Billion from Oracle
Prior to the acquisition of Sun, Oracle entered into a long term agreement with HP to develop software for Intel’s Itanium chips, which can be found in a large percentage of the latter’s high-end enterprise boxes. Everything went according to plan until 2011, when Larry Ellison’s firm declared that it will prematurely stop supporting the ...