Putting Big Data in the Cloud to Work for the Benefit of Humanity
Not to lead with the hyperbole, but it’s going to be hard to argue with the promise of big data analytics and the scalability of cloud when the combinations starts to solve one world…
CloudLock Bags $8.7 Million Via Series B, Expands Cloud Security Portfolio
By Cherr Aira
Security threats within the cloud territory are inevitable. Just like in any booming platform, the more popular you get, the more people you attract, the more you are positioning yourself to be a potent…
Tomorrow: Anonymous Threatens to Blackout the Internet on March 31st
By Kyt Dotson
From the Internet’s heart, Anonymous stabs at thee. As we all know the hacktivist collective Anonymous released a threat to darken the Internet on March 31st by attacking the Domain Name Service root servers,…
Microsoft Study: Cloud Levels Playing Field for Small Businesses
A new study, commissioned by Microsoft and researched by Edge Strategies, indicates that cloud usage is on the rise amongst SMBs, with paid service adoption set to double over the next five years. Apparently, there’s increasing…
Falconstor Aims to Be Apple’s Time Machine for the Enterprise [VIDEO]
Falconstor is a maker of backup and recovery solutions that wants to transform the way enterprises handle their data, as chief executive Jim McNeil explains during a recent interview with Wikibon’s Dave Vellante (see the…
The New SAP is All about Apps, Cloud and Big Data
SAP co-CEOs Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann took hold of the company just a couple of years ago, but are already transforming it into something far beyond just another legacy software provider. The co-leaders…
US vs UK: Music Cloud Storms Brew Over Fees, Licensing for Spotify and Pandora
By Cherr Aira
The music cloud market is getting more crowded with each passing day, as several applications and services seem to appear from every corner of the world. Competition is getting tougher as companies are adamant about hopping on…
Google To Sell Self-Branded Tablet
Today’s mobile roundup features Google’s plan on selling their own tablet, Apple’s $15 refund for the iPhone 4 antennagate, and more. The Google Tablet There are a lot of OEMs running on Google’s Android…
Facebook Timeline Becomes an Institution Today, But is it an Asset for Brands?
By Saroj Kar
“Your life will no longer be the same,” said Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in September last year at the f8 developer conference. There he presented Facebook’s new Timeline, which will be going live for…
3 Ways APIs are Changing IT Consulting
By Klint Finley
In a time when entrepreneurs and VCs are the new rock stars, cloud computing, big data and consumerization have made even enterprise startups like Box, Cloudera and Yammer sexy. And now thanks to EMC’s…