Kristen Nicole

Named by Forbes as a top influencer in Big Data, Kristen Nicole is currently a Senior Editor at SiliconANGLE.com. She got her start with 606tech, a Chicago blog she dedicated to the social media space, going on to become the lead writer and Field Editor at Mashable. Kristen Nicole has also contributed to other publications, from TIME Techland to Forbes. Her work has been syndicated across a number of media outlets, including The New York Times, and MSNBC. Kristen Nicole published her first book, The Twitter Survival Guide, and is currently completing her second book on predictive analytics.

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4 experts on how BYOx changed the way company data is managed

The spotlight on corporate data tends to focus on protected information, like financial data or limited access files. But in today’s world of Bring Your Own Anything (BYOx), corporate data can easily mingle with an employee’s personal data, such as family photos, social media accounts and even productivity apps they choose to use for work. ...

Chat LIVE with EMC’s Jeremy Burton : “Ask me anything”

It’s a mega-launch day for EMC, with a new storage line up designed for cloud, Big Data and software-led infrastructure. Unveiling a string of new product releases today, EMC addresses its dropping storage sales head on with the availability of EMC Elastic Cloud Storage, XtremIO 3.0’s new inline data services, and a performance boost with ...

MapR funding signals slow-rolling IPO, support for hybrid business model

Mere weeks after Cloudera earned funding support from Intel for its Hadoop-driven Big Data platform, rival MapR revealed its own massive round of $110 million in combined equity and debt financing. The $80 million growth capital portion of this round was led by Google Capital, hinting at the search giant’s own vision for the business ...

Salesforce connects wearable tech to the workplace, launches Wear

Hoping to get in on the ground floor of the emerging BYOx (Bring Your Own Anything) market, Salesforce is launching the Wear platform, a dedicated initiative for wearable computing in the enterprise. Despite shaky consumer interest in this emerging sector, wearable tech remains an active area of interest for gadgets like Pebble the fitness wristband, ...

Will Docker or HP steal the show at OpenStack Summit? Watch LIVE

Software-defined trends are reshaping IT and datacenter infrastructure, shifting an entire industry around cloud capabilities, with an emphasis on scalability. While disruptors like Amazon Web Services (AWS) have tipped the scale, legacy vendors like Hewlett-Packard and IBM turn to open source initiatives to keep up. Delving deep into the world of open source, the OpenStack ...

Highlights from IBM Impact 2014

SiliconANGLE’s just wrapped its live broadcast of IBM Impact with #theCUBE, a traveling news team that distracts the signal from the noise. This was the latest in a string of IBM events intending to redefine Big Blue’s messaging to existing customers and newcomers alike, centering a cohesive portfolio on cloud solutions, analytics, mobile and Big ...

The academic + corporate perspectives on Big Data education : Cloudera goes to school

Cloudera may have received a hefty investment from Intel, a move that validated Big Data efforts and cloud-driven service models for an emerging market, yet the platform provider  is continuing to make significant investments of its own, namely in Big Data education. Among the first companies to offer Big Data management services, Cloudera has every ...

“What we did right was something different and honest.” Blueshift founder on wireless speaker design

Wireless technology is one of the most significant contributors towards widespread adoption of smart home technology, lowering the barriers and costs involved in connecting just a room or an entire home. Instead of paying for a custom install, devices can connect to each other and to home networks over WiFi, NFC or radio waves to ...

Pivotal gears up for multi-front war with Big Data Suite

Making its play for Hadoop in the enterprise, Pivotal revealed a flexible Big Data computing suite today. The joint venture between EMC , VMware and General Electric hope to ease enterprise adoption with more tools and better pricing options. The Pivotal Big Data Suite is a subscription-based package that bundles Pivotal Greenplum Database, Pivotal GemFire, ...

Is the Smart Home buzzing at SxSW 2014?

I’d been on the fence about going to SxSW this year until I learned of the Connected Home Developers Garage. The event host, iControl, invited me to an early look at their setup, demonstrating one of their partners’ solutions (see their demo in the video below). That partner was Time Warner cable, which is using ...