With over 100 designers, Infor, Inc.’s internal creative agency Hook & Loop is one of the top three creative agencies in New York City. In an interview for theCUBE at Inforum 2014, Infor CEO Charles Phillips discussed why the company formed Hook & Loop and how basing its headquarters in New York City was key ...

In the cloud business for 10 years, Infor Inc. has garnered 25 million users and over 25,000 customers, with an additional 70,000 customers that can be converted to its cloud services, according to the company. That experience provided Infor with the capabilities to add mission-critical applications to its CloudSuite product, offering the company’s micro-vertical customers with a ...

After the Boston Marathon bombing last year, UK-based publication The Guardian created one of the more positive sides of the story using data mined from Boston.com, where individuals came out to offer help for people stranded in the area. Simply gathering this publicly available information and developing a visualization for it allowed The Guardian to ...

When I was a kid, my parish implemented speakers throughout the church so that people sitting in the back could hear the priest clearly. Those jet black boxes adorned corners of old wood that were rotting away, depicting an image of the modern era starting to come in to a traditional world. I remember being ...

Data science and data visualization are starting to make an impact in academia, and the University of Virginia’s (UVA) Darden School of Business provides a worthy use case with its application of products from Tableau Software, Inc., putting them to work in multiple classes and projects. Former student and current LinkedIn Manager of Business Operations ...

Two years after the International Data Corporation coined the term “third platform”, we’re now starting to see this vision emerge through things like EMC Corp.’s Elastic Cloud Storage. We know that the third platform is all about mobility, social networking, Cloud and Big Data, but less talked about is the hardware behind it all. In ...

In the next two years, Tableau Software Inc. is on track to spend more on research and development than in the last ten years. The company is on a mission to help the world see and understand data, and this vision was clearly and visually portrayed yesterday morning in a keynote by Tableau’s VP of Mobile & ...

The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) realized that it was running out of IPv4 address space at least 20 years ago, but the biggest concerns lie in the unknown aspects of transitioning away from this protocol. About 15 years ago, the organization developed a life support mechanism called the Network Address Translation to help ...

Docker, Inc. has made quite an impact in the industry since its debut just less than two years ago. Plus, with the company’s recently announced collaboration with VMware, Inc., Google, Inc. and Pivotal Software, Inc., there’s no sign of it slowing down anytime soon. Docker has tremendous potential to disrupt the virtualization space that only a ...

For years, customers have reported that Oracle resisted embracing VMware, preferring to offer clients Oracle Virtual Machine (OVM) instead. Realizing that a large portion of its customers run VMware, Oracle has seemingly broadened its strategy to be more inclusive and is targeting VMware installations. At this year’s VMworld, Oracle Corporation claimed its ZFS Storage ZS3 ...