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Exclusive: MongoDB Gets Huge Endorsement From Risk Management Insurance Company RMS
In MongoDB news today, the company announced with RMS the first cloud-based real time risk management platform ontop of MongoDB. RMS was founded at Stanford University in 1988 and has grown to be a leader in the risk management space. Now they provide the technology to the top insurers for risk pricing, management, and transfer. In ...
Besides Michael Bay at #CES2014 : biggest box office bombs + the VOD apocalypse
After seeing Michael Bay bomb at #CES2014, I’ve compiled my predictions for what will be some of the biggest movie busts in 2014. As we look back on 2013, some of the biggest, costliest misfires in cinema history were released, leading to over half a billion dollars in write-offs for major studios. Led by such ...
Marc Benioff Silicon Valley “Senator” Had the Floor at Dreamforce #DF13 – Marissa Mayer Lovefest
In recent years Silicon Valley has been called everything from a “cess pool” to irrelevant because of the image of a culture of conflicting interests, back room deals, and even women abuse charges of a top valley firms and high profile individuals. Marc Benioff wants to change that image. This week at Salesforce.com Dreamforce conference ...
What’s the next Big Data thing? Answer: Spark
I talk to many pioneers in big data going back many years and the early drivers of great technical trends come from those #techathletes – like Amr Awadallah founder Cloudera, Arun Murthy at Yahoo (now Hortonworks), and many more. The common thread in all big tech trends is that they almost always comes from those ...
Matt Schvimmer on ServiceNow HR service automation
I recently had a chance to sit down with Matt Schvimmer of ServiceNow to talk about the news of their HR Service Automation application. The conversation was about how their Service Automation platform can deliver an HR application that makes it easier for organizations to automate HR case management. This new application from ServiceNow manages the ...
Todd Bashor on Instant Mobility from ServiceNow @theCUBE Conversation
I had a chance to sit down with Todd Bashor, Director Platform Product Management of ServiceNow, to talk about their new instant mobility solution that they just announced. ServiceNow announced that ServiceNow users across the enterprise can access services from any mobile device. SiliconANGLE.tv New Video Playlist: Data Enhanced Social Video Player Youtube link: http://youtu.be/cyZj1_aLISo ...
Matt Schvimmer on ServiceNow HR service automation
I recently had a chance to sit down with Matt Schvimmer of ServiceNow to talk about the news of their HR Service Automation application. The conversation was about how their Service Automation platform can deliver an HR application that makes it easier for organizations to automate HR case management. This new application from ServiceNow manages the ...
NetApp and Cisco Announce Enterprise & Service Provider Cloud Solutions
Two Silicon Valley giants, Cisco Systems and NetApp Inc., are celebrating three years of collaboration in what has become a successful partnership for both companies. I had the pleasure of visiting the Cisco studios in Silicon Valley to record a video conversation on FlexPod for Enterprise and Service Provider clouds with executives Patrick Rodgers, VP ...
Lithium certified by Twitter for customer experience marketing
Lithium Technologies, supplier of social web technology for enterprises and brands, announced that Lithium Social Web has joined the elite Twitter Certified Products Program. Lithium is uniquely positioned in the ever growing customer support area of social data. Lithium Social Web enables brands to respond to millions of customer conversations on Twitter cost effectively and ...
Day 1 trending announcements at #BigDataNYC #HadoopWorld #StrataConf #hw2013
In four years in NYC covering the Hadoop ecosystem I haven’t seen this much action where the stakes are at an all time high. In NYC this week for #BigDataNYC event, SiliconANGLE has teamed with @theCUBE and is live on the ground breaking news, launching startups, and analyzing the signal from the noise. What’s ...