Next week the SiliconAngle team is heading to the HadoopWorld event in New York City. We’ll be broadcasting theCube live and covering all the latest developments in the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. But it’s important to remember that Hadoop isn’t the only game in town. As we ramp up our coverage of Hadoop in advance of ...

Cloudera founder Christophe Bisciglia unveiled his new startup Odiago this morning, giving to the business side scoop to TechCrunch and the technical details to Curt Monash. The company is launching a product called Wibidata (“we be data”) specializing in data management and what it Monash calls “investigative analytics.” Wibidata is built on Apache Hadoop and ...

Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz’s startup Asana has been one of the most anticipated startups of the past few years. And now you can finally sign-up for a free account. Asana was founded by Moskovitz and ex-Googler Justin Rosenstein and has received over $10 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Benchmark Capital and individual investors ...

Cloud governance and management company enStratus made two big hires in the past week: John Willis and James Urquhart, the new VP of Product Strategy. Willis is well known in DevOps circles and previously worked for Opscode and the DevOps consulting firm DTO Solutions. Yesterday, Willis announced on Twitter that he would start on enStratus ...

Today the SiliconAngle team is at HP, covering the announcement of Moonshot, an ARM based low energy server technology. Among the guests on our live show theCube was Forrester analyst (and former director of blade system strategy at HP) Richard Fichera. SiliconAngle’s John Furrier and Wikibon’s Dave Vellente talked with him about the announcement and ...

The Wall Street Journal reports today that job site Indeed.com saw triple the postings including IT Puppet as a requirement for the period between April and June this year compared to the same period last year. Puppet is an open source IT automation tool commercialized by Puppet Labs. It’s become extremely popular in the burgeoning ...

Brendan Eich is the co-founder of the Mozilla Foundation and the creator of JavaScript. I recently sat down with him at SPLASH 2011 to talk about the future of JavaScript, the importance of standards and the influence (or lack thereof) of John McCarthy and the Lisp programming language on JavaScript. Eich published his presentation from ...

Apple has acquired 3D mapping company C3 Technologies 9to5 Mac reported today. This is Apple’s 3rd mapping acquisition and 2nd 3D mapping acquisition. In 2009 Apple acquired mapping company Placebase, and last year it acquired 3D mapping company Poly9. C3 Technology provides technology that generates detailed 3D maps with, as 9to5Mac puts it, “virtually no ...

Codeacademy (not to be confused with Code Academy) offers a free browser-based courses on programming, including one on basic programming concepts for absolute beginners and two on JavaScript for experienced programmers. Today the company announced that it has closed a $2.5 million round of funding from “Union Square Ventures, O’Reilly, SV Angel, Yuri Milner, Social+Capital ...

According to a new report from Forrester, the use of Macintosh computers in the enterprise is rising, but support for Macs isn’t. Analyst David K. Johnson and his co-authors call on IT to repeal the ban on Macs. The report cites a Forrester Forrsights Hardware Survey that found a 22% increase in employee-owned Mac use ...