Cities get smarter with apps and streetlights
This week’s Smart City roundup features an app that helps cities fix things faster, while the windy city gets a smart upgrade despite privacy concerns. Reporting city issues using an app The City…
3D scanning for Indiana Jones and Doctor House from the Artec Group
By Kyt Dotson
With much of the media’s attention on 3D printing the other side of the industry, 3D scanning, sometimes gets overlooked. While 3D printing provides an excellent technology for rapidly prototyping 3D objects from digital…
Professional services integral to Big Data projects
Businesses should look to professional services for expert help in all phases of Big Data implementations, writes Wikibon Principal Research Contributor and Big Data analyst Jeff Kelly in “Professional Services Play an Integral Role…
HP sets out to make Big Data, cloud security enterprise-ready
With its recent release of the ARCSight SIEM virtual appliance, Hewlett-Packard takes another step towards encouraging enterprises to put their faith in big data storage and cloud computing. The SIEM appliance’s security measures offer…
Microsoft Lays Off 14% of Company #NokiaFail
By John Furrier
In possibly the most awkward moment in the company’s history, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella dropped the bomb (formal memo) to employees: The company will fire 14 percent of its employees, or roughly 18,000 people. Microsoft’s…
Cloud break: Amazon and Microsoft square off in the channel
The cloud war continues to expand beyond the quest to win the hearts and minds of CIOs to include the partner ecosystem, which is playing an increasingly important role in driving the adoption of…
Is the chief data officer a passing fad? | #CubeConversations
Data analysis is as much about people and processes as it about the technology that makes separating the signal from the noise possible in the first place. But while the overwhelming majority of organizations…
AWS is still the web’s biggest malware host
AWS has something of a malware problem, with the number of infected websites hosted on its cloud more than doubling in the last six months. NTT’s subsidiary Solutionary revealed the findings in its latest…
The search for professional services collaboration “zen”
By Guest Author
Communication, collaboration and clarity are prerequisites for business success. However, achieving a state of collaboration “zen” – in which a company communicates effectively internally and externally – requires rethinking the way we work. Consider:…
Google Earth’s aerial imagery is now on sale to business users
We’ve all wasted time virtually cruising around the planet when we’re bored, thanks to Google Earth. Now, Google is making some of its high-resolution images available for businesses to use for the first time.…