Klout and Hadoop, the Pros and Cons
Everybody wants to improve their Klout score, a value that represents a user’s influence across their social network. And while Klout describes to its users how the number is calculated, few people understand how…
Amazon, Microsoft Strengthen Video Streaming Services
By Saroj Kar
Amazon’s catalog of online streaming videos keeps growing. Amazon has announced licensing agreement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Studios to include hundreds of classic films and TV series for free streaming on its Prime Instant Video…
Humans Make Poor Spam Filters – LinkedIn Alert Ignored by Thousands
In yet another setback for LinkedIn, it’s been revealed thousands of email alerts sent out by the company in response to last week’s password scandal have been wrongly marked as spam. The news probably…
Apache Cassandra Meets Hadoop at DataStax
“This whole Hadoop thing is really catching on,” says Matt Pfeil, Co-Founder and VP of Customer Solutions for DataStax, the company behind the productization of Apache Cassandra. Cassandra, Pfeil explained in an interview in…
The Car is the Next Connected Device – New App Market Emerges
By Saroj Kar
We live in an ongoing technological revolution that helps us do our work efficiently, and provides a platform to move another step forward all the time. In the world of automobiles, there is also…
NetApp Makes Big Data Push with Hadoop Box, Data Protection
NetApp stepped up its big data play a notch at this week’s Hadoop Summit, where it introduced a couple of new offerings that will undoubtedly reinforce the company’s foothold in this space. The first…
Deploying Successful Storage as the Clouds Roll In
On closing day of Dell Storage Forum 2012 in Boston, Roger Bouchard, global solutions architect at Brocade, stopped by The Cube to speak with Wikibon’s Stu Miniman about storage security, the company’s next-generation switch…
Big Data’s Romantic Promise
Data integration software companies have provided new solutions to help “realize the promise of Big Data;” but, have organizational wishes “to drive competitive advantage, new business productivity and new revenues and profits” truly been…
Hadoop Summit: Ecosystem On The Edge of Forever
Big data is heading down the path to becoming a $50 million industry by 2017. And while the incumbent big boys of the tech sector – HP, IBM, Intel, Oracle – dominate the emerging…
Microsoft Addresses Security Vulnerabilities, Motorola Ban
Microsoft is shrouded in a curtain of scandal with the their controversial performance at the Norwegian Developers Conference and their future privacy-violating, emotion-based ads. But that’s not where matters end. It’s just the beginning.…