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Jerry Rice: Big Data Is Changing the NFL Fan Experience & Players – Rise of Fantasy Football
By James Foug and Alec Furrier As the NFL season kicks off, millions of football fans are preparing for the start of the 2013 season. Every year, more and more people are signing up for fantasy sports and as fantasy is growing, so is data collection. This data collection has become complex on the backend ...
Intel Announces Hyperscale Platform For Software-led Data Center With New Chips
With cloud computing, big data, and software defined datacenter markets pumping on all cylinders, performance and energy savings continue to be the hottest topic areas among industry leaders. Today, Intel announced new versions of their datacenter chips that are seven times faster then previous of Atom. Hyperscale computing is slowly but surely taking over the ...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer To Step Down – His Email To Company
Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer is stepping down. Microsoft announced today that the board of directors make the decision to ask Steve Ballmer to resign in the next 12 months. Ballmer will step down after the transition to a new CEO is in place. Microsoft Corp. today announced that Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer has decided ...
Analysis: HP Reports 3rd Quarter Earnings and Makes Executive Management Changes
HP reported their third quarter earnings and executive management changes today. Personal Systems and Printing revenue was down 11 percent and 4 percent year over year respectively. Personal Systems and Financial Services revenue was down 11 percent and 6 percent year over year respectively. The main engine of their business is enterprise that was run ...
OpenStack is Eating the Enterprise
OpenStack is fast becoming the most important open source project in the industry to unify the growing number of cloud infrastructure vendors. HP’s George Kadifa called OpenStack one of the most important projects to enable a new computing model. The main reason according to HP’s Kadifa is the fact that no one vendor controls the ...
Boston is the New Hot Hunting Grounds for Big Data Understanding
SiliconANGLE @theCUBE is in Boston this week for the #HPBigData2013 Vertica user conference exploring the cutting edge of big data. We also made a visit to MIT to meet the MITIQ team to talk about the expanding and changing role of the Chief Data Officer (CDO). Apple, Amazon, Samsung, Nuance, Microsoft all have presence ...
Microsoft Reorg Steve Ballmer Memo – One Microsoft Is The Theme
Below is the full memo to the Microsoft organization by CEO Steve Ballmer. The press release to public is here. My Angle: Microsoft is admitting defeat in this modern era and is making one big tact to vector in the right direction. My opinion is that this is a good move. Microsoft must commit to this ...
Big Data Player Hortonworks Secures Huge Funding $50 Million To Expand Hadoop Ecosystem
Hortonworks announced a massive funding round led by new investors Tenaya Capital and Dragoneer Investment Group, with participation from our existing investors Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures and Yahoo!. The new funding injection of $50 million puts Hortonworks in the center of the conversation in the big data space and silences the rumors about any acquisition. ...
Surveillance State: Liberty & Security – Innovation of Technology Should Drive Government Policy – Opportunity
This Prism issue is not a new issue. Remember William Binney, whistleblower and former NSA crypto-mathematician who served in the agency for decades, said the David Petraeus sex scandal was most likely exposed using illegal surveillance of his email. Binney came to national attention earlier this year when he started telling the story of how NSA ...
Prism & NSA Conversations – Lessons Learned from the NSA on Scaling Data Mining Monitoring
With all the conversations around the NSA and Prism monitoring our data it’s important to learn what it takes to mine the massive amounts of data. The Atlantic had a great post on the challenges of technology advancements and how hard it is to apply the policy of getting data on bad actors. To ...