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Structure 2015 highlights: Analysts discuss breakthroughs, security and science-fiction stuff | #StructureConf
As the Structure 2015 conference closed its second day, many of the attendees gathered in the hallways and diners of the venue to network and gossip about their adventures. Charles Beeler, general partner at Rally Ventures, a Silicon Valley investment firm, joined Jeff Frick of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, to talk about the takeaways from ...
Protecting data with security at the point of storage | #StructureConf
The digital revolution is driven by data, and that information is valuable. Not only to the companies who collect it, but also to outsiders who can steal the data or hold it for ransom. Computer security is a vital and necessary part of the modern business world. However, not all data is equal when it ...
Changing directions toward new technology at Coca-Cola | #IBMinsight
The changes that are sweeping through the technology space are huge, but away from the big vendor announcements and the startup disruptors taking the headlines, there’s a world of real companies trying to manage all this new hardware and software while running their businesses. Most of these companies are built on years, if not decades, ...
Training the next generation of data scientists | #IBMinsight
The greatest challenge of the Big Data revolution is making sense of all that information. It’s well enough for a company to collect every slice of data it can reach, but how do they extract value from what they hold? Data scientists fill the role of curator and traffic cop, selecting what data is useful ...
Juniper makes bold moves in the market with disaggregation strategy | #NXTWORK
In the tech world, the shift to the cloud has changed entire industry and seen companies both rise and fall. New data storage solutions, along with simple tools to enable powerful remote computing, have made it easier for companies to shift the burden of their operations into the cloud. Still, that data must connect to ...
Juniper plans to help companies break free with disaggregation | #NXTWORK
The tech world has seen many changes in recent years, but one that too often goes unnoticed is that hardware and software are moving apart. It used to be that a company bought its systems from one vendor, ran that vendor’s applications and used that vendor’s services. Now, a business might build its stack from ...
A transformation in storage opens new ways to work with data | #oow15
A revolution is burning through the tech industry. Companies are moving to the cloud, networking is bringing the Internet of Things (IoT) to life, and Big Data is giving incredible powers to any business that can harness enough information. However, through it all, one fact remains: All this data has to live somewhere. That somewhere ...
Behind the curtain at Oracle OpenWorld 2015 | #oow15
Oracle OpenWorld 2015 is one of the largest conferences in the tech world, and the shockwaves sent out from the floor of the show were felt around the globe. As an industry giant, Oracle has a huge pull all on its own, but major players across the industry also attend, if for no other reason that ...
Oracle OpenWorld 2015 Analysis: Can Oracle pull off its vision for the cloud? | #oow15
The Oracle OpenWorld 2015 conference represented an opportunity for Oracle to show the world what its plans for the future might be, and the industry giant delivered. The most striking point that Oracle made was their commitment to the cloud; it revealed not only an array of products and services, but a timeline for future progress. To ...
Oracle leverages security, open standards to take commanding position in Cloud computing | #oow15
Computer industry giant Oracle has been in the Cloud business ever since there was a Cloud, but the company has recently reconfirmed its commitment toward remote computing technologies with a suite of new products and services. The core of these offerings rests firmly on a foundation of hardware-enabled security and open-standards software. This represents a somewhat new ...