Comcast-Time Warner Cable deal set to be announced today
Comcast, the leading cable operator in the US, has agreed to acquire Time Warner Cable for $159 a share, or an estimated $45 billion in stock. The deal is set to be announced this…
VMware streamlines partner program to drive growth
Attendees at this week’s VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) 2014 in San Francisco were greeted with a number of welcome updates, including a major channel refresh meant to make things a little simpler for software…
MapR laps ahead of rivals with SQL query + YARN backward compatibility and more
MapR has established itself as a frontrunner in the race to deliver the first truly enterprise-ready Big Data platform by diverging from the traditional open source approach to Hadoop, earning the scorn of rivals…
MapR innovates so that users profit | #BigDataSV
Jack Norris, MapR CMO joins John Furrier and Dave Vellante in theCUBE. In their ongoing coverage of the 2014 Strata Conference in Santa Clara, California, the three discuss new MapR goals and strategies in…
Attunity: opening the valve on real-time data | #BigDataSV
In one of the later interviews on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE on day 2 of #BigDataSV, Jeff Kelly and Dave Vellante welcomed Lawrence Schwartz. Schwartz is the VP of Marketing for Boston-based Attunity. In his interview,…
InfoObject: helping enterprise to navigate the unknown | #BigDataSV
Joining Dave Vellante and John Furrier on theCube at #BigDataSV this afternoon was Rishi Yadav, CEO of InfoObjects. InfoObjects serves their clients as an independent consultancy with no intellectual property. “We are in the…
WANdisco defends HBase as complaints, standards emerge | #BigDataSV
Webcasting from #BigDataSV in Santa Clara, California, theCUBE veterans John Furrier and Dave Vellante welcomed Konstantin Boudnik for a quick interview regarding the big data trends and the involvement of big companies in the open source process.…
Data science meets interaction, meets the cloud: Introducing CrowdChat | #BigDataSV
Dani Ryan, CrowdChat CTO and Co-Founder joins John Furrier and Dave Vellante in theCUBE for their ongoing coverage of the 2014 Strata Conference in Santa Clara, California. CrowdChat is a new platform to host #hashtag…
Real-time rules in Hadoop ecosystem : Splice Machine bags $15M, matures Big Data
Splice Machine, an up-and-coming analytics provider working to move Hadoop beyond batch processing, announced this week that it has raised $15 million in Series B financing from InterWest Partners. Existing investor Mohr Davidow Ventures…
SQL is sexy again : Momentum builds for unstructured data | #BigDataSV
Day two of Strata Conf. 2014 kicked off with co-hosts John Furrier and Jeff Kelly who were joined in theCUBE by Bob Wilkinson, COO of InfiniDB, a man more than happy to talk about the…