Hadoop Summit 2012: New Products and New Insight
The fifth annual Hadoop Summit is a two-day event that will kick off tomorrow, and it’s also one of the two events that we’re covering this week. Event co-host Hortonworks and a few partners…
TechEd Vendor Profile: Kemp Technologies
By Scott Lowe
At TechEd in Orlando, I had the opportunity to meet with Kemp Technologies. You may not have heard of the company, but they are a small maker of SMB and midmarket-focused load balancing devices. …
Analysis: Hortonworks Puts Stake in Ground with New Hortonworks Data Platform – Focus on Big Deals and Ecosystem Growth
By John Furrier
Hortonworks announces Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP). Hortonworks is including all the normal features around a distribution for Hadoop such as Pig, Hive, Ozzie, etc. The key features are the new things that they are…
Dell Networking on Strategy, Cloud and Opportunity
Dario Zamarian, General Manager of Dell Networking platforms, dropped by theCube during the Dell Storage Forum to talk about the company’s networking initiatives and how they fit in with evolving technology environments. View the…
Convergence v. Divergence or the Web Way v. the Old Way
Yael McGuire works with Facebook on the Open Compute Project. He made a point in a session today at the Intel Forecast event that is worth exploring. His remarks illustrate the difference between companies…
Analytics Marathon Starts Ahead of Hadoop Summit 2012
Yahoo and HortonWorks are hosting the fifth annual Hadoop Summit this week, and the floodgates are already open. A day before the conference kicks off the firm already took the opportunity to announce two…
Open Standards and Practices Are The Secret Sauce to IT Scalability
Social, mobile and big data may be the trends driving IT in 2012. But all of those markets have the cloud underpinning them to one degree or another. Cloud services are underpinned by cloud infrastructure which…
Dell’s Kind Of Helpful $100M Innovators Fund
Dell has launched a $100 million credit program designed to help startups finance technology purchases from Dell. The new Dell Innovators Credit Fund provides fledgling angel and venture capital backed companies a maximum of…
Blizzard Threatens Diablo III Cheaters With Permanent Ban for Mods, Bots, or Hacks
By Kyt Dotson
Cheating is a prevalent problem across a multitude of online video games—and it’s well known in Blizzard’s previous titles in the Diablo series especially Diablo II. In an attempt to head off potential cheaters…
Flame Malware Turns Unwitting Humans Into Data Mules
The cyberworld was shocked when it was reported that a certain malware was found which exceeded the prowess of the Stuxnet malware. The Flame malware is a sophisticated computer virus that targets computers in…