IBM Edge 2013 has come and gone, so now we take collection of the annual event highlights and see what they tells us of IBM’s strategy moving forward. First off, IBM made a slew of additions and announcements to its flash storage portfolio. Additionally, IBM focused a lot on “smarter” at IBM Edge 2013: smarter ...

I’m an admitted Apple fanboy. And for all you Fandroids, I’m aware the majority of iOS 7 updates are features already found on Android. If that is your argument, fantastic — there’s some good points to this end. Now that we’ve got that out of the way, I think the WWDC 2013 keynote had a ...

We’re at inflexion points in mobile, cloud and Big Data. Andy Monshaw, GM, PureFlex, IBM stopped by #theCUBE at IBM Edge to chat with the hosts Wikibon Senior Analyst Dave Vellante and Wikibon Analyst Stu Miniman. Monshaw discussed how he thinks the industry is driving levels of requirements for infrastructure and applications we haven’t see ...

With today’s first wave of news out of HP Discover 2013, Hewlett-Packard is showing its 3PAR + flash play. Today HP rolled out an all-flash version of its HP 3PAR StoreServ system as well as software updates to boost response time.  Already HP is addressing some of the questions I mentioned yesterday ahead of this week’s Discover ...

While Wall Street’s been less than enthusiastic about NetApp’s most recent earnings report, the company takes another step towards realizing its vision of software-defined storage. NetApp just pulled the curtains back on Clustered Data ONTAP 8.2, the latest version of its flagship storage operating system. The new release introduces a number of powerful capabilities designed ...

Apple announced iOS 7 today during the keynote presentation at WWDC 2013. “It’s the biggest change to iOS since the introduction of the iPhone,” said Apple CEO Tim Cook. As expected, Apple also announced the iRadio music subscription service, its swipe at Pandora, Spotify and Internet radio as a whole. Of the announcements at WWDC ...

HP Discover 2013 kicks off this week. We’ve set you up with what to expect late last week: Flash, 3PAR + More. HP Discover 2013 is a pretty important conference for the storage landscape. I, along with the industry, are very interested to see two things: what Hewlett-Packard defines as 3PAR’s role in HP’s goals ...

It was a busy week in the world of storage. From the looming changes in compute storage thanks to the rising popularity of the Internet of Things, to the NSA secretly taking, and storing, your personal data  — a busy week indeed. The Internet of Things is going to produce yottabytes of new data, changing ...

First this week, we learned the NSA was secretly tapping phone call metadata from Verizon. Then The Guardian broke a story quickly confirmed by the Washington Post on the existence of a massive, warrantless government surveillance program known as PRISM. Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Dropbox … all technology companies who were/are allegedly participating ...

On today’s SiliconANGLE Live NewsDesk Show, (see live feed below or visit youtube.com/siliconangle to watch on-demand), we discuss how Cloudera is attempting to build a ‘Google search’ for Big Data. Hadoop is an open clone spawn of the Google and its collection of tools, but in the Big Data market, the open framework works across ...