Live in the Moment. TerraEchos’ Speedy Analytics Sees the Best in Data
Bill Hartman, CEO of TerraEchos drops by at The Cube during the IBM Information on Demand 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Hartman gave us an overview of what his company does.
Tablet Wars: New iPad mini vs. Kindle Fire vs. Google Nexus 7
Apple has just unleashed the iPad mini into the small tablet space, where it’s set to come up against some stiff competition from the likes of Google and Amazon, whose devices have already been…
The Importance of Mobility for Achieving the Promise of Unified Communications
Before people depended on the Internet and various forms of mobile messaging, communication was rather simple. If you wanted to communicate with someone immediately, you either called or sent a fax, and in many…
Data Lives Where it Lives, It Doesn’t Have to be Moved
By Ryan Cox
TheCube with John Furrier, Founder of SiliconAngle and Dave Vellante, Co-Founder of Wikibon, interview Stacy Leidwinger, Senior Director of Product Management – IBM Software Group. Her company recently closed its sale to IBM in…
Wikibon’s Floyer Finds Long-Term Strategic Sense in HP Flash Partnership Shift
HP’s move to freeze its current relationship with flash storage provider Violin where it is, in favor of a strategic direction toward software-led storage based on 3PAR, may seem a step back from a…
Skype For Windows 8 Gets Slick & Stylish Makeover
Skype has been given a makeover just in time for the launch of Windows 8, with a modern, stylish new interface and a host of improvements that Microsoft says will allow it to take…
Cloudera Makes Hadoop Real-Time with Impala
Today at the Strata + Hadoop World event in New York City Cloudera unveiled Impala, an open-source engine that extends Hadoop beyond batch analytics. The big data platform is capable of crunching through massive…
Huawei Smacks Of Desperation: Offers “Unrestricted Access” To Its Source Code
Desperate to restore its tattered reputation after being branded a “security threat”, Huawei has offered the Australian government unrestricted access to its hardware and source code, months after it was banned from supplying telecommunications…
In 5 Years Digital Pubs Will Rebuild for the Wired World, says Zinio CMO
With yesterday’s unveiling of the new iPad mini came an update for another Apple product: iBooks. It may not have seemed like the best setting for software update news, but the success of iBooks…
IBM’s PureSystems Combines Advantages of Single SKU Integrated Systems with Flexibility of Full Customization
Most of the new data-center-in-a-box unified systems fielded in the last two years fit somewhere along a continuum between fully pre-defined and unchangeable but highly integrated systems and highly configurable but less well integrated…