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EMC the Only Big Player to Truly “Get” Big Data
And the Oscar goes to…Hadoop! The promising technology behind Big Data’s unwavering buzz was in the spotlight for an entire week during the Strata Conference last month, and now that we’ve had time to wind down from the festivities, we can reflect on Hadoop’s starring role in the enterprise. Abhishek Mehta, the founder of Tresata, recapped the ...
Cloud Wars: VMware Steps Up Its Campaign against Amazon
There’s a tug of war over the enterprise cloud. On one side is VMware with its licensed, private cloud offering, and on the other is Amazon, with its cost-efficient set of public cloud services. AWS is gaining a lot of traction with corporate users, thanks to a combination of a solid pitch and “rogue IT” – the name ...
Big Data “Doubts Turned into Big Data Deals” at Strata 2013
It’s funny how much life can change in just one short year. Twelve months ago the world was still grasping the concept of Big Data, exploring its applications and use cases. In 2013 many doubters have come full circle, not only excited about Big Data, but finding innovative ways to make it work in the ...
Hobbit, Game of Thrones Spur Hollywood’s Latest War Against YouTube
John Casaretto appeared on NewsDesk earlier to discuss the latest copyright infringement news from Hollywood with our host, Kristin Feledy (full video below). Earlier this week, Warner Brothers Studios sent Google a takedown notice for an app called “Hobbit 3D Wallpaper HD.” The application, as the name would suggest, contains unauthorized snapshots from the studio’s hit ...
Hadoop Overdose @ Strata: This Week in Big Data
The OReilly Strata Conference was this week’s big data epicenter. Several noteworthy companies attended the gathering, a few of them launched new Hadoop distributions, and many others announced specialized solutions designed to either run or supplement all this new software. Cloudera unveiled a new version of its flagship enterprise management suite, Cloudera Enterprise. The bundle ...
The FCC in Favor of Jailbreaking, Against DMCA
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA, bans consumers from jailbreaking their phones – or at least, that was the plan. According to SiliconAngle contributing editor John Casaretto, the law is not only ineffective but also harmful to both consumers and innovation. He shared his take on the legislature during a Thursday NewsDesk segment with ...
PaaS on the Rise, webOS Dumped on LG: This Week in the Cloud
This past week Rackspace announced two major updates, Continuuity intrudes the market with new software, and Hewlett-Packard finally got rid of webOS. Rackspace lowered its storage rates by 33 percent and promised to roll out tiered pricing for its OpenStack services. Wikibon’s Dave Vellante believes that the cloud host is “trying to turn the crank” ...
Prime Time Tour – Strata 2013 with theCube
SiliconAngle and Wikibon attended this week’s O’Reilly Strata conference, an event that explores the Big Data market, and how companies are making it work. Earlier, SiliconANGLE founding CEO John Furrier and Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly recapped on the news from Day 1 of the Santa Clara event. Vellante starts by describing the current ...
VMware vs. Amazon: Who Will Win the Public Cloud Battle?
The fight for the cloud is underway. Wikibon analyst Stu Miniman discussed the rivalry between VMware and Amazon and what it means for enterprise IT this morning on the SiliconAngle NewsDesk show (full video below). Virtualization has taken over the data center. Miniman says that between 50 and 60 percent of all workloads are virtualized, ...
Apple’s High Earnings a Mere Afterglow of Old Tech, Investors Lose Faith
Apple’s earnings have increased substantially in the past few quarters, yet shareholders are jumping ship. The company’s stock plummeted more than 35 percent from a high of over $705 a few months ago, to about $445 at the time of writing. Scott Lowe, the founder of 1610 Group, showed up on NewsDesk this morning to ...