Google wants to translate the real world
Google has taken a giant step forward in its quest to bring translation into the real world, following its acquisition of Quest Visual, makers of the ‘Word Lens’ app, for an undisclosed sum. Word…
We need an “Underwriters Laboratories” for the cloud
The 28-hour outage of Adobe Creative Cloud last week should catch the attention of everyone who depends on cloud-based applications to get their work done. The outage makes me wonder whether we need outside…
Red Hat’s vision for OpenStack could lead to a new era of vendor lock-in
Red Hat potentially opened a new front in the long-running “cloud wars” this week, and one that could have massive implications for customers down the road. Rumor has it that Red Hat is about…
Weekly Cloud review: At the intersection of OpenStack and today’s public cloud reality
Like many of its traditional rivals, Oracle has adopted an ‘if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em’ attitude towards OpenStack in an implicit acknowledgment that the project is disrupting the proprietary systems and software…
If you aren’t redefining with disruptive tech, you may not survive | #EMCWorld
By Rose Meadows
Last week’s EMC World 2014 event, held at The Sands Convention Center in Las Vegas, was one of two live broadcasts brought to you by SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE. In this interview, co-hosts Jeff Frick and…
What you missed in Big Data: startups return to the spotlight
The analytics space has seen a flurry of startup updates in the past week, beginning with the Monday release of Splice Machine’s Hadoop database into public beta. Unlike structured query engines such as Impala,…
HANA’s new, automated role in EMC’s virtualization evolution | #EMCWorld
By Rose Meadows
Last week’s EMC World 2014 event, held at The Sands Convention Center in Las Vegas, was one of the two live broadcasts brought to you by SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE. In this interview, Steve Kenniston sat…
Tendril – Disrupting the energy business with data
The energy business model has been simple for a long time – produce more energy, then sell more energy. Tendril is aiming to change that with the powerful combination of data and product marketing.…
IBM turns OpenStack into just another app on the app store
If its many proponents are to be believed, OpenStack is on a fast track to becoming the de facto standard for cloud computing. But while the promise of universal programmability across the data center…
Smart World Weekly: Invasion of smart boards, HUDs + more
This week’s Smart World Series features the top trends in the Internet of Things (IoT), how wearable devices can transform education and the workplace, and the president’s push for smarter infrastructure. For those who…