Day Three Recap: SAP Sapphire 2012
The Cube’s coverage of SAP’s annual Sapphire Now 2012 in Orlando, FL continued on day three of the conference. This year’s event was another opportunity for SAP to promote its transition from a traditional…
Facebook IPO Sets Sights on $1 Trillion as Zuckerberg Inspires His Engineers
By Saroj Kar
Facebook’s IPO is the biggest thing to hit the stock market this week (this decade, really). The company name has been filling the headlines with speculation regarding their IPO offering, a billion-dollar figure, and the…
How Sybase 365 is Helping SAP Build “Very Real” Mobile Products [Video]
The Cube’s Dave Vellante and big data analyst Jeff Kelly sat down with John Sims, President, Sybase 365 at the SAP Sapphire Now conference held this week in Orlando, FL (video below). Sims was…
24 Hours Ahead of Facebook’s IPO: It’s Time to Talk Clean Servers
In just a few years, social media behemoth Facebook managed to build up a $100 billion IPO valuation, and all the credit goes to the 800 million registered accounts on the network – 800…
The Pirate Bay and Wikileaks Undergo Massive DDoS Attack from Unknown Source
By Kyt Dotson
In what looks like some sort of punishment from an unknown source The Pirate Bay and Wikileaks have been hunkered under a sustained distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack for much of this week. Steve Ragan…
U.S. Government issues Warning of Specific Malware Exploit at Overseas Hotels
Software update notices at overseas hotels may actually be attempts to infect travelers’ laptops with malware warns the U.S. government’s Internet Crime Complain Center (IC3). In a recent Intelligence Note, the IC3 says travelers’…
Diablo III Online-Only DRM Strategy Leaves Players’ Eyes Stinging, Throats Raw
By Kyt Dotson
The much anticipated Blizzard classic game Diablo III launched Wednesday to a great deal of fanfare and an equal helping of controversy. When all the servers (across the globe) green lit on 12:00 a.m.…
BI Industry Spike Puts Tableau at the Helm
Data visualization software maker Tableau Software is calling dibs on the BI market now that research firm Gartner ranked it as the number one vendor in that space in a recent, and most awkwardly pronounced, report.…
SAP Strives for Unified Experience, Even with Varied Underlying Systems [VIDEO]
In their ongoing coverage of SAP SAPphire at #theCube, John Furrier and Dave Vellante interviewed Dinesh Sharma, VP of SAP Cloud Marketing to discuss the company’s new directions (see full video below). Sharma explained…
Pure Storage Reveals Version 2 of All-Flash Array [Video]
Pure Storage’s engineering team has evidently been keeping busy in light of this week’s news that the company is debuting the second generation of its flash storage array. FlashArray 2.0 with the new Purity…