NASA Talks About Big Data, Hadoop
NASA scientist Chris Mattmann sat down in theCube at Hadoop Summit 2012 with Stuart Miniman and Abhi Mehta, co-founder of Tresata. Mattman is a Ph.D. and among other things is a senior computer scientist…
Amazon Steps Up Cloud Support as Rivals Play Catch Up
Amazon is rapidly embracing its new persona as a tech vendor following the initial success of its Amazon Web Services. Yesterday, the company offered up a whole new host of improved support offerings for…
Applicasa Rolls out Backend-as-Service for Android
Applicasa is a new mobile startup that is trying to address an area that is being targeted increasingly nowadays: server-side scripting. The creation of an app that connects to the web doesn’t end at…
Dell Storage Forum Recap: The Strategic Shift and Latest Wave of Innovation
This week’s Dell Storage Forum can definitely be categorized as a big milestone for the company’s hardware line, which is currently undergoing a major shift across multiple fronts. First and foremost, storage is becoming…
Gmail Accounts Hijacked by ‘State-Sponsored Attackers’ via IE Zero-Day
By Kyt Dotson
Both Microsoft and Google have been at the press to warn users that attackers are using a new zero-day exploit in Internet Explorer being used to hijack Gmail accounts. The flaw is currently unpatched…
Yammer Would Be The Best $1 Billion Microsoft Could Ever Spend
The rumor mill is working overtime with suggestions that Microsoft might be purchasing social networking provider Yammer for as much as $1 billion. But given Microsoft’s near-absence from the social landscape, that billion could be…
Dell’s Storage Chief Talks Migration, Convergence and the future
Day Two of the Dell Storage Forum 2012 in Boston included a sit-down with Darren Thomas, vice president and general manager of Dell Enterprise Storage. Meeting with Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman of The…
SAP Makes a Move on End Users with Collab and Analytics
Business software make SAP is targeting business users and entrepreneurs in particular with a number of newly announced initiatives that rely heavily on partnerships. The firm revealed an update for the SAP StreamWork enterprise…
Foreign Remittances Go Digital: Celebrating Families
By Guest Author
Nothing says family like money and – probably – the quintessential American experience is captured by the immigrant worker who sticks a few dollars in an envelope, glues on an airmail stamp and sends…
Keys to Cloud Success: Security, Flexibility, Reliability and Management Simplicity
By Jeff Pike
During the Dell Storage Forum 2012 in Boston today, Brocade Global Solutions Architect Roger Bouchard met with Stu Miniman of Wikibon.org as part of theCube’s conference coverage (full video below). Bouchard, the author of the…