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For Big Data investors: Uber, Coca Cola will rule the market | #BigDataNYC
When we think of Big Data we tend to think IT departments. Cloud, storage, data management and visualization, business intelligence and advertising metrics. But Big Data reaches beyond the IT department, and for investors looking to make their bets on the hottest buzzword in the tech industry, the true winners won’t be the traditional tech ...
Where to buy Samsung Galaxy Note 4: How it compares to iPhone 6 Plus
Steve Jobs may have once laughed at the idea of phablets, handsets too large to be called phones but too small to be called tablets. Yet the large-screened devices combine the best of both worlds, making phablets a popular choice amongst consumers. Even as tablet shares decline in the mobile device market, phablet adoption has quadrupled ...
Post-grad plans for Quad: Massive group chat for gamers
A small team with a big vision, Appsurdity Inc. looks to tackle some of the technology problems you may not have ever considered. The startup’s newest project Quad is helping college students discover groups and connect on a large scale, supporting massive group chats up to 500 people. That’s 10x more users than other group ...
Larry Ellison steps down at the top of his game, leaves “top lieutenants to mind the store”
After 35 years heading Oracle Corp., Larry Ellison is stepping down as CEO of the software company he founded. Splitting the newly opened CEO position are Mark Hurd and Safra Catz, current co-presidents of Oracle. Hurd will run sales, marketing and strategy while Catz will remain the company’s chief financial officer and oversee legal and ...
Have containers solved the BYOD security problem?
Less than ten percent of businesses have a comprehensive security policy in place to protect employee-owned devices, according to a recent Compass Intelligence survey, leaving the vast majority of the Bring Your Own Anything (BYOx) market open to hackers and phishing attacks. Containerization is one method of separating device and corporate data with the intent to ...
For scouting talent, there’s only one crowdfund for this smart home heavyweight
There’s no shortage of innovation in the smart home market. Now two of the top companies in that sector are teaming up to nurture the ideas they think will shape the home of the future. Icontrol Networks, Inc. the software platform behind Time Warner Cable, Inc.’s home automation suite, today announced a partnership with crowdfunding ...
Nutanix could’ve gotten more than $140M in fresh funding round, says analyst
The big news being discussed at VMworld 2014 this morning is the Nutanix, Inc. Series E funding round, which generated $140 million in financing. Nutanix, which provides a cost-effective method to move data around in the enterprise, is now valued at $2 billion, having raised a total of over $300 million in funding. That valuation ...
VMware CEO details offensive strategy for containers, open source | #vmworld
Enabling brave, new IT is the bumper sticker theme Pat Gelsinger put on his keynote presentation on Day 1 of VMworld. The VMware, Inc. CEO outlined his new vision for the company, how it fits into the EMC, Corp. federation strategy, and what his offensive moves will be in the coming year to curb ...
How VMware is tackling the final obstacles towards a fully-automated hybrid cloud | #vmworld
This morning I received a story suggestion for our coverage of the VMworld conference going on this week – a decoder ring of products from the event host VMware, Inc. Given VMware’s latest product launches and rebranding efforts, that story suggestion is sounding better and better. Announced in the days leading up to VMworld and ...
Top BYOx security tools used by the experts
Wearable shipments are on track to grow tenfold over the next few years, reaching 150 million devices (and worth $19 billion) by 2018, according to Juniper Research. And as mobile devices continue to infiltrate everyday life, the consumer impact on enterprise environments poses a threat to organizational security. The Bring Your Own Anything (BYOx) movement ...