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Aerospike strategy chief Goldmacher places bets on word-of-mouth magic
Peter Goldmacher lasted just three months in a strategy and business development job at NoSQL database giant MongoDB, Inc. last year. “I found I didn’t want to work for someone and now I’m out of a job,” he joked to an audience at a BigDataNYC panel last fall. His aversion to full-time employment apparently didn’t ...
PacketZoom claims 10X mobile speed boost with drag-and-drop simplicity
A new Silicon Valley startup is tackling a problem that it believes is responsible for a whole lot more abandoned shopping carts and frustrated users than most people realize: slow mobile download speeds. PacketZoom, Inc. believes it has a better way to make smart phone connections zippier. Today it introduced what it calls a “mobile speed ...
Steve Chambers joins Wikibon, quickly puts stamp on cloud coverage | #CUBEConversations
Wikibon’s newest analyst brings with him a healthy dose of “British cynicism,” an extensive background in cloud infrastructure and a belief that complex IT challenges don’t lend themselves to marketing slogans and empty promises. Steve Chambers’ career in the cloud extends all the way back to 2002 when he joined Loudcloud, the company cofounded by ...
Cloudyn adds Azure to growing roster of supported public cloud services
With researchers predicting growth in the hybrid cloud market of as much as 50% this year alone, it’s no surprise that an aftermarket has emerged for technology that helps businesses optimize the multitude of cloud choices. Tel Aviv-based Cloudyn Ltd. is seeking to fortify its position as the most broadly based supplier of optimization services ...
Talon broadens client support in new version of enterprise file-sharing app
Talon Storage Solutions, Inc. has extended its MobileFast file-sharing application to support Android and Windows Phone clients as part of a broad set of enhancements announced this week. Previously, the platform only supported Apple iOS client devices. Users of all three platforms can now retrieve documents from Windows file shares for online or off-line editing ...
Huddle’s SaaS collaboration tool is first to win key Federal endorsement
Huddle Inc., which is one of a growing line of well-capitalized companies in the suddenly hot enterprise collaboration market, said the U.S. version of its cloud collaboration service is the first to be granted Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Authority to Operate (ATO) by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). That’s ...
Neo claims big performance gains in update of top-ranked graph database
Neo Technology, Inc. is taking steps to move its Neo4J graph database into the real-time analytics world with updates that significantly improve read and write performance and the addition of a cost-based optimizer to improve query performance. Neo4J, which is the world’s most popular graph database, according to DB-Engines Ranking, gets a new in-memory page ...
BigDataNYC debate: Are Hadoop upstarts the future or road kill?
Big Data analytics is going to change business as we know it, but there’s no guarantee that the companies that dominate the market today will be around to take a victory lap. That was a consensus of a Wikibon Capital Markets panel at the BigDataNYC 2014 conference last October, in which a tech entrepreneur, a ...
Humana eyes APIs as key tools for revolutionizing health care
If you think application program interfaces (APIs) are just a tool for geeky software developers, think again. In the age of Big Data and mobility, every company is potentially an information provider, and APIs provide a secure and relatively simple way to selectively expose data and programs. They’re one tool that Humana, Inc., the $48 ...
No silver linings in GigaOm’s demise
The failure of a business is sometimes cause for jubilation at that company’s competitors, but I didn’t detect much glee in the reaction of my SiliconANGLE colleagues this week to the sudden shutdown of the technology news site GigaOm. Rather, there was sadness that a media company that championed respect for its readers and that ...