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Shark Tank investor Robert Herjavec talks security – and ugly Christmas sweaters
You may know Robert Herjavec, chief executive and founder of the Herjavec Group, as the shark investor on ABC’s Shark Tank. But he began his career in the technology sector, and today his company is one of the largest information security providers in the world. Herjavec and Atif Ghauri, senior vice president at the Herjavec Group, were ...
First rule of cybersecurity: Know your enemy | #splunkconf16
Splunk, Inc. is redefining how people secure their data with its Adaptive Response Initiative, which uses an end-to-end platform with multi-vendor participation to combat the increasing rate of cyber-attacks. During Splunk.conf 2016 held in Orlando, FL, the company announced that it was expanding the number of companies participating in the program to leverage information and automation to ...
Adaptive Response: Free the data, and better security will follow | #WomeninTech
As the first day of Splunk.conf 2016 was winding down, the conversation turned to security and how opening up data actually keeps it safer. And one of Splunk, Inc.’s missions is to unify many IT enterprise technologies to enable collaboration while using the data to provide visibility into cyber-threat challenges. To talk about Splunk’s new Adaptive ...
Is GPU technology giving Spark a flame? | #BigDataNYC
Gearing up for three days of coverage of BigDataNYC 2016 at 37 Pillars in New York City, the SiliconANGLE Media team and NVIDIA Corp. hosted The Future: AI-Driven Analytics, An Evening of Deep Learning. This event kicked off the conversation about deriving benefits from Big Data to advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). An event ...
The rise of women in tech: A shifting computer science curriculum | #GuestOfTheWeek
The technology skills gap isn’t a mere gender issue, but an educational challenge as well. Women are racing to fill those positions, seeing the opportunity to catch up to the number of men employed in computer science. Federal data shows that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Dartmouth College awarded over half of their engineering ...
How open source is bringing blockchain to the enterprise | #WomenInTech
During her part of the keynote address at IBM Edge 2016, Donna Dillenberger, IBM fellow, Watson Research Center, at IBM, demonstrated how analytics and transactions work together using The Linux Foundation’s version of blockchain, called Hyperledger. Fresh off the keynote stage, Dillenberger joined Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Stu Miniman (@stu), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE ...
Use case-based research offers insight into return on technology investments | #OOW
Nucleus Research, Inc. is a 16-year-old research company founded with the goal of providing a base level of research to vendors that offer technology focused on value. The company has published over 600 Return-On-Investment (ROI) case studies since its inception, and Nucleus Research offers the information about ROI in a way the CFO wants to see ...
Is less risk and more speed possible in the cloud? | #OOW
As the enterprise races to the cloud, it wants low risk and high performance. As Oracle OpenWorld kicked off, Thomas Kurian announced that Accenture — which provides services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations — is now the first cloud-managed service provider that will bring customers to Oracle’s public cloud via the Accenture Oracle ...
The networking revolution: Riverbed CEO speaks out | #GuestOfTheWeek
This week, Riverbed Technology, Inc., a leader in networking that established itself on Wide Area Network (WAN) optimization, held its Riverbed Disrupt event in New York City. During the event, the company showcased its expanding line of solutions for software-defined IT and highlighted a new product that the company said will revolutionize networking — SteelConnect, an application-defined ...