‘Tis the season for digital Advent calendars
Opening the window of an advent calendar for every day of December is one of my fondest holiday memories from childhood, but it’s a pastime that’s losing its charm in this digital age. Fortunately…
smartShift’s Arjun Chopra on moving traditional enterprises to the Cloud | #re:Invent2013
Arjun Chopra, the chief technology officer of smartShift Technologies, appeared on theCUBE at Amazon’s recently concluded re:Invent 2013 conference to share his insider’s perspective on porting legacy workloads to the public cloud. An AWS…
Cloud Wars: Google’s Compute Engine goes live
Google already has an almighty stake in consumer’s digital lives, be it through search, email, news or YouTube videos. And now, it’s setting its sights on owning the enterprise as well. For years, Google…
LucidWorks brings multi-structured data analytics to Splunk
In the enterprise, the exponential growth of information is driving the need for a consistent and highly scalable data access layer that can keep up with an ever-expanding workload, while also meeting the performance…
Real-life Robocops enhancing safety and security
Safety and security is one of the highest priorities for any person, establishment, city, or home. Though having a 24/7 security guard on duty is the obvious solution to security concerns, this often proves…
7 ways Big Data could revolutionize our lives by 2020 [Infographic]
We’ve heard how Big Data is transforming various industries, and how it can affect the fortunes of big businesses, but very few actually specify how Big Data is transforming the world and people’s lives.…
Bitcoin mining malware alert: Has your PC been hijacked?
By and large, Bitcoin miners tend to be decent folk, and so it’s always disappointing to hear stories of those who’re abusing the system. Such is the case with a company that goes by…
IBM: Black Friday web sales surge thanks to mobile
Mobile shoppers are out in force this holiday season. After sifting through terabytes of transactional data from about 800 U.S. retail websites, IBM found that Black Friday deals on smartphones and tablets accounted for…
SDS no ticket to cheap hardware
Software-defined storage (SDS) is not the end of hardware warns Consultant and Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe in “Software defined Storage Does Not Mean the End of Hardware Costs“. Actually, most vendors, including Scale Computing,…
Built-in hardware telemetry means better service for ITOs
CIOs should insist on built-in data telemetry on system performance in any new data arrays they buy, writes Consultant and Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe in “CIOs Should Require Analytics As part of Vendor Infrastructure…