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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 ...
4 Major Downsides to Cloud Computing for the Enterprise
The cloud has become an abstract but revolutionary concept for the enterprise, empowering end users with software and widespread access to the tools and information they need to do their jobs, and more productively at that. But implementing cloud services at the enterprise level can be a frustrating maze of infrastructure requirements, interface demands and ...
With NeuroSky Mind Control Could be the Future of Gaming
Cost-effective chips that can amplify and record brain signals have apparently been a thing for a while now, but the technology only started gaining steam recently after a few venturous startups that took it upon themselves to popularize silicon-powered telekinesis. One of these companies is NeuroSky, a San Jose-based maker of commercial brainwave handsets that ...
Rackspace Acquires MongoDB Startup ObjectRocket, Hails NoSQL
Rackspace just announced this morning that it has snatched up ObjectRocket, an emerging Database-as-a-Service provider. Terms of the deal, which is set to close later today, were not disclosed. ObjectRocket offers developers a cloud-based environment that’s built to run MongoDB, a popular NoSQL database developed by a company called 10gen. The service is available on-demand ...
Day 1 @ Strata: New Hadoop Distros, and Cloud Convergence
The Big Data whales are circling around each other at this week’s Strata conference. Three vendors announced new Hadoop flavors, and two major solution providers unveiled products that can help enterprises realize a return on their analytics software. All about Hadoop Greenplum introduced a new distribution called Pivotal HD, a near real time analytics engine ...
The Real-Time Advantage of Cassandra Over Hadoop: Insight vs. Unworthy Data
Tim Moreton, the chief technology officer of Acunu Analytics, hopped into theCube yesterday afternoon at this year’s first Strata event to talk about his startup, and explain the value of real-time analytics for the enterprise (full video below). Acunu created a real-time data crunching engine for Cassandra, an increasingly popular distributed database available under the Apache ...
SAP Snaps Up SmartOps, Optimized for the Mainstream Retailer
SAP acquired inventory optimization specialist SmartOps for an undisclosed sum. SmartsOps is a Pittsburg, PA-based firm that has been developing supply chain software since the year 2000. Its solutions include a demand sensing platform that analyzes shopping patterns to predict how long inventory will last, and a supply chain optimization module that is compatible with ...
Co-Browsing is Part of Salesforce’s New Package Deal for Mobile Cloud
Salesforce introduced a new application that allows help desk representatives to directly interact with users regardless of the platform they are using, whether it’s a PC, handset or a tablet. Service Cloud Mobile, as the app is called, is a subscription-based bundle designed for use by consumer facing companies such as banks and retailers. Features ...