This Week in Big Data: Google’s New Siri Clone
Google is Apple’s largest competitor in the mobile software arena, a status that has been further solidified this week with the launch of a new app that rivals Siri with data science and language…
This Week in the Cloud: Big Updates from Small Players, Cisco’s UCS Ramp-Up
This week featured several major announcements from a few small firms with big ambitions and a lot of cloud mojo. One of them is Spanning, which hired a Silicon Valley veteran to lead its…
Twitter Tool Rival Instagram, Facebook Starts Privacy Tours
Would you use a photo filtering app from Twitter? Would you be happy to have a privacy tour from Facebook? Or would you be delighted to see sepia-toned disaster photos? These are just some…
Five Things You Must Consider About Enterprise Mobility
Mobile is making big inroads in the enterprise and blurring the lines between business and personal. Employees accustomed to anytime, anywhere access in their personal lives, are bringing the same expectations to the office.…
The Future of I.T. – Cloud, Mobile, and the Identity Iceberg
By Nico Popp
It is a fun time to be in I.T since pretty much everything is changing under disruptive new technology trends. The world of identity is not indifferent to this change. New IT technology platforms…
Breaking Analysis: ARM’s A-50 Cores To Power the Future?
Two big announcements came out of ARM’s tech conference in Santa Clara this week. First, it gave details and dates for its next-generation cores, and second, a mass group of its licensees went all…
Database Scaling Explained As Easy As Baking a Cake
In reading tech blogs or talking to people with in depth knowledge of the IT world, you’d often hear phrases such as “scalability is the key to…” or “scaling is important…” or “…and that’s…
Breaking Analysis: Prepping For the New DDN WOS Release – Test, Test, and More Test?
Wikibon Co-Founder David Floyer called DDN’s WOS 2.5 release a big step forward for object file systems. He discussed two major trends – data consolidation and application consolidation, which will be enabled by the…
Fear Factor and Your Online Digital Life [Infographic]
By Saroj Kar
For hackers, no business is too small to exploit. Security is biggest obstacle to public digital life because users find it difficult to assess security risks and approaches to mitigation. When it comes to…
Breaking Analysis: New Prediction Algorithm for Twitter Trends?
An MIT researcher, Associate Professor Devavrat Shah, says he has developed an algorithm that can accurately predict what topics will trend on Twitter. Shah claims a 95 percent accuracy rate during testing of his…