John Casaretto

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Latest from John Casaretto

Tracking HP as it “gets back to the garage” | #HPdiscover

Hewlett-Packard famously started out as two guys innovating in a garage.  Many years later, HP is finding its way back to those roots. We got a glimpse over three days at the HP Discover event, broadcast live on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s flagship product.  Simultaneously, a discussion on CrowdChat, SiliconANGLE’s new social media aggregator, captured the action and ...

Highlights from #HPdiscover : Exclusives on HP’s latest storage products

There was no denying the energy felt yesterday’s CrowdChat session for Hewlett-Packard’s annual event, HP Discover (#hpdiscover).  The social media discussion ran live during SiliconANGLE’s ongoing coverage from HP’s conference, broadcasting interviews and announcements from theCUBE.  Show hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante interviewed several industry thought leaders and HP customers on Day 1 of the event, ...

Trending on CrowdChat: The future of Hadoop |Day 2 #HadoopSummit

With social impressions reaching of 1.2 million and counting, the Hadoop Summit 2014 CrowdChat is running strong into its third day of monitoring theCUBE’s live event coverage.  Thought leadership from the world of Hadoop was again featured throughout the second day of broadcast, and the conversation resonated through the CrowdChat session. Scaling Big Data with ...

Top interviews + convos from Hadoop Summit 2014

Day 1 of the Hadoop Summit 2014 conference is in the books, with an ongoing CrowdChat covering the conversations from theCUBE capturing the top threads from the event.   The Summit, a leading Apache Hadoop industry conference, has grown significantly over the years, and throughout the day, theCUBE, led by hosts John Furrier and Jeff Kelly, ...

Data breach burnout – the biggest threat of all?

As our digital lives move increasingly online, security breaches are exploding in number and scale.  Is it possible the public is becoming numb, or at least accustomed to massive losses of personal data?  A succession of major high profile data breach incidents have dominated the headlines, affecting the personal information of millions of ordinary Americans.  ...

TrueCrypt is no longer secure – government power and the open source questions pop up again

The popular drive encryption software TrueCrypt issued a mysterious warning on the open-source project’s website yesterday, indicating that the product is not safe for use.  The news has shaken up groups of privacy and security-minded users as the nature of the statement has not been made clear.  What is known is that the warning is ...

US-China entering a cold cyber war : Separate from economic espionage?

Over the last few weeks we have seen stories emerge about the US vs China, the situation escalating as the empires spin into a full-bore cyber and technology war.  Among the most significant developments, it should be noted that there is a practically zero chance that the five Chinese national army parties charged by the ...

Uproar over eBay hack : Will the industry reset?

Many lasting ramifications for the industry have yet to emerge from the massive data breach disclosed last week at eBay, the internet auction and e-commerce site. The data compromise affected eBay’s entire user database, and among the data lost were usernames, contact information and encrypted passwords.  President of eBay Marketplaces Devin Wenig has sent out an ...

LifeLock app scrubbed over PCI issues

LifeLock, the identity theft protection company, pulled the rug on one of its mobile apps and deleted all the user data within those systems. The abrupt move was in response to significant security concerns, as disclosed in a blog post by LifeLock CEO and Chairman Todd Davis. He writes, “We have determined that certain aspects ...

The Internet strikes back : Global encrypted SSL traffic booms

In the year’s wake of surveillance revelations leaked by Edward Snowden, a recent report indicates that encrypted worldwide Internet traffic has surged to record levels.  The Global Internet Phenomena Report, published by Sandvine, a Canadian broadband management company, shows among other things that North American encrypted Secure Socket Layer (SSL) network traffic essentially doubled in ...