Google snags another Microsoft engineer
Google is planning something huge, as to what it is, no one really has any idea, but it probably has something to do with machines, natural language processing, and wearable technology, if its new…
HP helps ExactTarget run faster with flash | #HPDiscover
Hewlett-Packard’s Vish Mulchand and Pete Robinson, a storage manager at ExactTarget, dropped by theCUBE at HP Discover to share how the Salesforce subsidiary is leveraging the 3PAR StoreServ 7450 all-flash array to provide better…
HP hyperscale director on the converged data center | #HPDiscover
Hewlett-Packard is bringing high-density computing into the enterprise mainstream, John Gromala, the company’s senior director of hyperscale product management, told theCUBE hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante at last week’s HP Discover summit. At…
HP Vertica boss on Big Data and innovation | #HPDiscover
In his latest appearance on theCUBE at last week’s Discover summit in Barcelona, Colin Mahony, VP and GM of HP Vertica, shared how the database maker fits into Hewlett-Packard’s analytics strategy. After being acquired…
Rumor: China really hates Bitcoin
The rollercoaster ride that is the Bitcoin market took a deep dive yesterday following yet another bombshell out of China – this time round, the People’s Bank of China has been rumored to consider…
No more metadata for you: US judge orders NSA to stop spying on people’s calls
In what looks to be a major setback for the NSA’s mass surveillance of telephone metadata, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon has ordered the spy agency to stop collecting U.S. citizen’s mobile phone records,…
Weekly Cloud Review: IT automation and virtualization
ServiceNow is doing its part to move the public cloud deeper into the traditional enterprise with an online ITSM platform that consolidates traditional IT silos into an easily manageable and highly automated single system…
Remembering the work of the pioneer computer scientist Grace Hopper
By Saroj Kar
Last Monday, Google took the opportunity to celebrate the 107th birthday of Grace Hopper, the pioneer computer scientist who gave us COBOL and the term “debugging.” She is much more than just a superb…
FrostWire aims to incorporate Bitcoin into a BitTorrent client
By Saroj Kar
The developers of FrostWire BitTorrent clients are currently working on an integration of crypto currency Bitcoin into their software. In the future, users will get the opportunity to leave an anonymous donation by uploader…
AWS builds business on hyper-specialization @re:Invent
The use of standardized commodity hardware, with software adding all the value, is generally seen as one of the key components of the hyperscale architectures used by the very large cloud service providers such…