Hurricane Sandy and How Artificial Intelligence Can Help Save Lives
Hurricane Sandy is bearing down with full force on the east coast of the United States, and as I read Jack Dorsey’s tweet: I knew that Jack has a lot to be proud of.…
3D Big Data Visualization Helps Fighting Cancer With Karios3D
By Isha Suri
Big Data, so far, has been used in different fields and applications, right from businesses and space to digital marketing and high level analytics Though we have heard about its applications in medical field as…
TCS Expands with New Data Center in India
Tata Consultancy Services, one of the largest tech firms in India, has plans to set up a new facility in the city of Indore. The cost of the undertaking will be around 550 crore,…
Platfora: A Hadoop BI with No Data Warehouse Required
By Anthony Coln
Platfora founder and CEO Ben Werther sat down with SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier and Dave Vellante of theCube at Strata-Hadoop World 2012. Werther says that vendors talk about data infrastructure and setting up a…
Apple iPad Mini: A Poorly Executed Defensive Play
By Scott Lowe
Over the past few years, you might say that I’ve become something of a fan of Apple products. There was a time when I wouldn’t give the company’s products a second look, but today,…
Hurricane Sandy’s Golden Opportunity For Big Data Startups
Yesterday we reported how Google was playing its part in the Hurricane Sandy relief effort, with the launch of an interactive crisis map displaying pertinent information such as the locations of evacuation centers and…
The Future of Big Data is the Datacenter Reaching Back to the World, Says Edd Dumbill
By Saroj Kar
Edd Dumbill, the technologist, writer and programmer, is the program chair for the O’Reilly Strata and Open Source Convention Conferences. He dropped in on theCube at Strata-Hadoop World 2012 to talk Big Data and…
Tableau Software on Big Data Visualization
Seattle-based Tableau Software is a data visualization company making some big waves in the world of Big Data. Daniel Jewitt, the VP of Tableau Software shared his company’s history and Big Data story on…
AMD To Launch ARM-Based Opteron Chips by 2014
AMD has just announced details of its first ARM-based server chips, which it says will be released sometime in 2014 under its Opteron brand. According to the US firm, the move will allow it…
Religious Hacktivists Deface French Euromillions Site
Hackers yesterday defaced the French language version of the Euromillions website, taking down the homepage and replacing it with a passage from the Koran that condemns gambling as the “Devil’s work”. The message was…