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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 ...
VMware Announces New Public Cloud Hybrid Service – vCloud #vmwarehybrid
SiliconANGLE is covering live the VMware press event where VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger and Bill Fathers, SVP GM vCloud, unveiled VMware big push into the public cloud to counter both Openstack and Amazon AWS with a unique enterprise approach called vCloud Hybrid Service, an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud operated by VMware. Bill Fathers ...
New York Startup ArchetypeMe Disrupting Publishing – It’s All About Me
The Internet has made it easy for people to find and obtain information they want, but as a side effect it has left us with too much information on our hands. ArchetypeMe, a New York based startup founded by veteran retail entrepreneur Cristina Carlino with former HP CMO Michael Mendenhall, seeks to solve this problem ...
EXCLUSIVE: Fusion-IO New CEO Shane Robison Clears the Air “Company is Not For Sale”
Shane Robison, the newly appointed CEO of Fusion-io, appeared on theCUBE on SiliconANGLE.com at #EMCWorld to clear the air on the rumors swirling around the departure of former CEO David Flynn and CMO Rick White both cofounders. Robison, Fusion-io’s new CEO, discussed the recent events going on with the flash storage giant during a brief ...
Intel New CEO Brian Krzanich Takes Over for Paul Otellini
Intel announced today that the board of directors has unanimously elected Brian Krzanich as its next chief executive officer (CEO), succeeding Paul Otellini. Krzanich will assume his new role at the company’s annual stockholders’ meeting on May 16. Intel has been rebooting internally since the market is transforming to lower power processors and low latency ...
Amazon Cloud Drive vs. Google Drive, Dropbox + Everyone Else
Comparing cloud hosting providers can be truly frustrating. There are so many features to choose from and all of them seem just slightly different! If you’ve ever purchased a mattress, you know what we mean. It’s hard to compare the strengths and benefits without seeing them side by side. So poof! Here we go: We’ve ...
VMware Spin-out Startup Pivotal Gets $105M for the Industrial Internet Arms Race : Now an Instant Superpower
General Electric just announced that they are pouring in $105 million in investment into Pivotal, the VMware (EMC) spinout that is focusing on the new modern era of developers and cloud. This new investment is on top of the big investment that VMware and EMC are making. This puts Pivotal in a class by itself ...
Industry Leaders Discussing Flash Storage Trends with Analysts #flashahead
Flash is changing system design, permanently. At Wikibon, we liken today’s systems design to a military convoy, where the entire convoy must decelerate to allow the slowest vehicle to keep up. That slowest vehicle in systems today is spinning disk. For nearly two decades we’ve seen function move out of the host into the storage ...