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Tableau Software on Big Data Visualization
Seattle-based Tableau Software is a data visualization company making some big waves in the world of Big Data. Daniel Jewitt, the VP of Tableau Software shared his company’s history and Big Data story on theCube at Strata-Hadoop World 2012. The company was founded back in 2003 as a tech spin-off of a Stanford University PHD ...
Big Data – Dreams Come True – Strata Chairs on theCube
Alistair Croll and Edd Dumbill are the co-chairs of the O’Reilly Strata Conference. They dropped in on theCube at Strata-Hadoop World 2012 to talk Big Data. The growing conference has been experiencing incredible growth and maturation; it illustrates the growing importance of the topics covered here. Croll notes that this is right where the event ...
Big Data, Social, Analytics, Content Management Everywhere – IBM’s Ken Bisconti
Ken Bisconti, IBM Product and Strategy for the Enterprise Content Management sat down on theCube with Furrier and Vellante. As VP of enterprise content management, Bisconti is focused on products and strategies. He shares his perspective with Dave and John on these mega-trends that are emerging and how IBM is meeting the demands. Content management has been ...
Kaspersky’s “Unhackable” OS Will Face Challenges
Last week’s coverage of a forthcoming “Ultra-Secure” OS from Kaspersky’s Labs has raised a number of serious doubts in the security community. The top-secret project is reportedly developing this operating system to provide a secure platform designed for critical infrastructure across a number of critical industries. The system reportedly will make it impossible to execute ...
Windows 8 Surface RT Sells Out – Beyond the iPad
Suddenly everybody is a pricing expert – especially when comparing the Microsoft Surface and iPad markets, there has been no shortage of at-large opinions. People love their iPads, but there appears to be great curiosity on the new Microsoft devices. Earlier in the week a leak revealed Microsoft Surface pricing on a number of sites. ...
Anonymous Outs Cyberbully that Drove Teen to Suicide
The name of the notorious hacktivist group Anonymous has been brought into an entirely new kind of issue – cyberbullying. A Pastebin release from a member of the group contains what they say is the identity of the man who tormented a Canadian teenager for years online, ultimately leading to her suicide just one week ...
Meet miniFlame – the Latest CyberWarfare Discovery
Kaspersky is reporting on a newly uncovered piece of malware that has been dubbed “miniFlame” – a fully functional independent malware module with some interesting ties to previous pieces of state-sponsored malware. As the name suggests it has been tied to the infamous Flame malware and also the Gauss malware. Through the course of an ...
iPad Mini Pricing Reviewed – Comparing Leaks to the Kindle and Nexus 7 Prices
Like many, the news of the rumored iPad Mini pricing flew across my radar this weekend. The source came from a screenshot released on a German-based website Mobile Geeks. These leaks amount to unfounded speculation and a grainy screenshot is not incident enough to get all excited or disappointed. I have little reason to believe ...
LulzSec Sony Hacker Admits All – Faces Sentence
20-year old LulzSec hacker Raynaldo Rivera, also known as “neuron” has made a plea agreement admitting to hacking into Sony, according to a filing in federal court. Rivera was arrested this past August. Details of the agreement illustrate how Rivera committed this act, which notoriously ended up in the compromise of information on thousands of ...
Opsource and BlueFire No More – Dimension Data is the New Brand
Dimension Data announced today that its cloud businesses Opsource and BlueFire have been consolidated under the unified Dimension Data name. Both companies were acquired by the privately held Dimension Data in 2011, with BlueFire based out of Sydney, Australia and Opsource out of Santa Clara, California. As a newly formed single global entity, Dimension Data ...