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Got Smarts? Work It! For Cheaper Analytics, Better Security
It seems everything’s getting smarter these days, from our television sets to our business practices. And that means smarter opportunities for service providers like Hewlett-Packard, Google and beyond. This week we broadcast live from HP Vertica’s first Big Data conference, hearing from HP and its partners and customers the finer details of implementing analytics-driven solutions. ...
Converged Efforts in Hadoop, BYOD and Flashy Smartphones
The world is becoming more data-intensive every day, and what’s managing it all? A whole new world of software and hardware upgrades have emerged in recent years to address the “data problem,” even fostering partnerships in the process. Long time allies Cisco and NetApp make up the most recent partnership in data management, expanding their jointly ...
Saga Goes Social : Life-Logging Goes Mainstream
Life-logging app Saga goes social, hopping on the mainstream trend that's popularizing the self-quantified revolution. The Saga update features more sharing capabilities, more privacy settings and battery-saving perks to keep your life-logging on task, 24/7.
Ferris Launches Data-Happy Video App, Takes Vine + Instagram for a Ride
Storytelling is all about picking the right angle. Ferris, an Austin, Texas-based startup is taking this concept to the next level with the world’s first data-driven, video-based social sharing service. Ferris delivers a mobile app that enables users to record and share videos up to two minutes in length from within a single interface. It ...
Kumbaya, Tech Giants : Open Source Makes Friends of Rivals
It’s been an embracing week for the world of open source, as several enterprise entities take the pledge to work more collaboratively with each other. IBM and EMC Pivotal were among the most notable organizations to unveil their collective goals for Cloud Foundry, an initiative that benefits several companies looking to develop the Industrial Internet, ...
Productivity Apps in Japan vs Europe : Qortex Launch Underscores Cultural Influence
From the global software development company The Plant, comes a new social productivity app called Qortex. Pronounced “cortex,” like the contextualization layer of the human brain, there’s two points of interest with this particular launch: the team’s growth strategy in a rapidly crowding market of cloud-based social services, and their Tokyo base, giving Qortex a ...
Networking + Software Must Get Easier : Cisco Confirms SDN Goals with Insieme Launch
As promised, Insieme Networks, officially branded “Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)”, exited stealth on Day 3 of this week’s Cisco Live conference in Orlando. Padmasree Warrior, Cisco’s chief technology and strategy officer, revealed that the one-year-old startup is aiming to take SDN to the next level with an open operating system for the network. Warrior sidestepped the ...
Building a World for Non-Geeks: K2 Founder on Data Democratization, Apps + BYOD
Possibly the most exciting topic we’ve covered in depth this year is the Industrial Internet and its consumer component around The Internet of Things, contextualizing the promising technology that’s evolved around Big Data and real time analytics these recent years. A revolution in the data center has borne new capabilities that are trickling down from ...
Sqrrl Enterprise Simplifies Big Data App Development in GA Release
The big bottleneck for Big Data is application development. Today developers of are getting some significant help with the GA release of Sqrrl Enterprise. Sqrrl, the Cambridge, Mass.-based company commercializing Apache Accumulo, has added a number of enhancements to version 1.1 of its security-focused Big Data analytic platform specifically aimed at simplifying the application development ...
LIVE Video: iOS 7 Firsthand Review – Android Users Will Feel “Very, Very Familiar”
Updated with full video – see below. Yesterday at Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference in San Francisco, CEO Tim Cook unveiled a completely redesigned iOS 7 operating system for the iPhone and iPad. On today’s SiliconANGLE Live NewsDesk Show, (see live feed below or visit youtube.com/siliconangle to watch on-demand), we hear from SiliconANGLE Web Producer Mark ...