Red Hat eyes up the cloud with CloudForms 3.1 | #VMworld 2014
Red Hat Inc., might already be a superpower where Linux is concerned, but it has no intention of resting on its laurels. It has ambitions to become a major player in the cloud as…
Essential CDO traits: Surprising skills for success
Even with great minds, diligent teams and hefty budgets, Big Data had stumped the c-suite. While CTOs and CMOs are continuing to work closely together, even together, they lack the particular expertise to analyze…
Big Data goes postal : USPS hopes analytics can keep snail mail relevant | #HPBigData2014
Dealing with data on a massive scale, the United States Postal Service is one of many organizations tackling the challenge of trying to stay customer-focused in a data-driven business environment. Speaking at Hewlett-Packard, Co.’s…
Join LIVE today: 2pm #CrowdChat | What new Tableau products do you want to see this year?
As Tableau Software, Inc. gears up for its annual conference we at SiliconANGLE are having something of a pre-party. Discussing the data visualization provider’s most notable developments in recent months, as well as expectations…
Can analytics enable a leaner enterprise? | #HPBigData2014
The analytics movement has come far along its growth path since Colin Mahony, the head of Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Vertica business, opened the company’s first annual conference on the database 12 months ago. Information gained…
Reinventing storage: Data protection is not just backup| #VMworld 2014
World domination does not happen from day one for startups, warns Paula Long, serial entrepreneur and current CEO and Co-Founder of DataGravity, Inc. “It is a risk game,” she elaborated in a heartfelt talk…
EMC unveils RecoverPoint for VMs: Data protection as a service for hybrid cloud | #VMworld 2014
Aiming to redefine hybrid cloud data protection, IT storage solution provider EMC Corp. today announced RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines (VMs), a data backup and recovery solution for applications in VMware-based cloud environments. The announcement was…
U.S. Transportation Dept. jumps into the federal CDO craze
The public sector is taking the driver’s seat in embracing the emerging role of the chief data officer. The latest major federal institution to jump on the bandwagon is the U.S. Department of Transportation…
Target malware still causing trouble, could affect 1,000 U.S. businesses
The cyber attacks that put 40 million credit card numbers and other information stored in Target Corp. cash register systems at risk could be even more widespread than previously thought. According to an advisory…
VMware unveils its own OpenStack distribution | #VMworld
VMware has been focused on the software-defined data center for some years, but now the virtualization giant wants a piece of OpenStack too. Yesterday the company announced at VMworld 2014 its plans to integrate…