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Is Uber the next Webvan? Will Uber go bankrupt?
There was a report yesterday on the price wars between Uber USA LLC and Lyft, Inc. According to Bloomberg, in a price war with rival Lyft, Uber reduced its rates by 10 – 45 percent in 100 cities across North America. Can Uber continue to be darling that represents the cloud, mobile, social generation of ...
Cloud wars: Oracle CEO Mark Hurd’s vision to gain cloud market share
Oracle Corp. is stepping up the volume to educate the world that they are winning the cloud game. Oracle’s CEO, provides a detailed view into the future of Oracle’s overarching business strategy which centers around cloud computing across Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and how Oracle is highly differentiated and investing heavily in these ...
Oracle CEO Mark Hurd #CubeCards
Here is a collection of #CubeCards from my exclusive sit down with Oracle CEO Mark Hurd. #CubeCards – Pictures can tell a thousand words.
Facebook CTO in NYC shares his thoughts on the future of Artificial Intelligence
Mike Schroepfer, Facebook Chief Technology Officer, posted on his news feed this morning his thoughts on the future of artificial intelligence (AI). From SIRI to self-driving cars, AI is developing fast and dominating the conversations in “cutting edge” computer science thought leadership circles. Many think AI is science fiction magically turning computers into intelligent bots/machines with human-like ...
Women in Tech in Silicon Valley – Elephant in Silicon Valley
Women in Silicon Valley has been a hot topic over the past year. A group of influential women in tech initiated a site called www.elephantinthevalley.com to solicit a crowdsourced campaign to get at the heart of the issues directly from women themselves. The site was created by a small sample of women including Trae Vassallo, Ellen Levy, Michele ...
Analysis: What’s in store for cloud and big data this year
The biggest technology trends this year will continue to be cloud, big data, and Internet of Things (IoT). Cloud computing will continue to change the landscape of the enterprise while consumer technology will be disrupted by the role of big data and IoT technologies. Latest evidence is seen by Wikibon’s Future of Cloud Computing ...
Is the era of pure play storage companies coming to an end?
An indisputable fact throughout the history of the storage industry is that there have really only been two companies that have succeeded as standalone storage pure plays—EMC and NetApp. Now that Pure Storage has gone public and we are seeing lots of venture capital investments in the storage sector, the question everyone is asking is ...
A Black Eye on Black Friday: Outages & Data Loss Looming for Retailers
With Black Friday rapidly approaching—followed closely by Cyber Monday—all eyes are on the leading retailers—from Amazon to Best Buy to eBay, Target and Walmart—to see who can withstand the massive influx of hundreds of millions of online and in-store purchases set to push IT systems to the brink of collapse. Who will break? Whose site ...
Exclusive Video Story: EMC B2B marketing success formula: Be fun, social and data driven
It sounded crazy, even suicidal. Jack up a tractor trailer to 70 MPH, drive it up a ramp and jump it over a multi-million dollar Formula 1 race car whizzing just below. The EMC team that dreamed up the stunt had only one shot at perfection. Working in partnership with the Lotus Formula 1 Team, ...
Security is broken – Opportunities for startup and established players
A week doesn’t go by when there isn’t at least one headline about a substantial breach and loss of sensitive data and/or money. What’s the right model? Who has the answer? The current plethora of security tools and solutions that take a defensive approach with time-consuming manual detection and remediation obviously aren’t helping companies ...