Google Glass wait-list now open for US residents
If you can’t wait for Google Glass to hit the stores, here’s your chance to get one earlier: Google has opened up a new wait-list for those who’re eager to get their hands on…
SmartThings gets $12.5M to take over the Internet of Things
SmartThings, the Internet of Things startup that provides home automation solutions, raised $12.5 million in a Series A funding from Greylock Partners and Highland Capital Partners. This round of funding brings SmartThings’ venture funding…
How big is ‘Big Data’ really?
These days, electronic devices come in various storage capacities. It’s one of the features that most people look at before making a purchase. If you buy a new iPad, one of the things you’ll…
Pivotal unleashes Cloud-based Big Data platform
Pivotal, the buzzed-about Big Data venture that was spun out of EMC and VMware earlier this year, is attempting to marry the power of Hadoop with the elasticity of the open cloud. The company’s…
NetApp sues rival over employee poaching
NetApp has filed suit against Nimble Storage, one of its fastest growing rivals, for allegedly engaging in anticompetitive behavior and colluding with three ex-employees to steal trade secrets. The vendor claims that the hybrid…
Microsoft just became a much nicer place to work
Microsoft employees woke up to some good news this morning, when bosses sent out a company-wide email announcing the end of its despised “stack ranking” review system for workers’ performance. The email, which was…
AWS re:Invent 2013: Analyzing next-gen consumer cloud services #reinvent
In the second interview segment on SiliconANGLE’s TheCUBE, broadcasting live from the AWS re: Invent 2013 conference in Las Vegas, Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and SiliconANGLE’s John Furrier welcomed Jillian Mirandi, Software and Cloud analyst…
AWS helped create the world’s most cost-effective supercomputer | #reinvent
Jason Stowe, CEO, Cycle Computing, explained the company’s latest AWS use case which leveraged “Amazon Spot instances to create the most cost effective supercomputer in the world.” Stowe discussed this impressive results with theCUBE…
AWS re:Invent 2013 conference kickoff | #reinvent
Kicking off this year’s AWS re:Invent 2013 conference in Las Vegas, Wikibon co-founder Dave Vellante and SiliconANGLE’s founder John Furrier offered a quick prequel of what we can expect to learn over the next…
What’s the next Big Data thing? Answer: Spark
By John Furrier
I talk to many pioneers in big data going back many years and the early drivers of great technical trends come from those #techathletes – like Amr Awadallah founder Cloudera, Arun Murthy at Yahoo…