QLogic: Soon to Announce Q1 Fiscal Year 2012
Over the past few months, QLogic has been on a roll. Though the company is mostly known for fibre and infrastructure, they turned heads when they came up with the convergence of cloud computing…
LulzSec Legacy: Hackers Released 17k E-mails and Passwords
Almost 17,000 e-mails and passwords were released by the Connexion Hack Team, which they stated to have acquired randomly. The group did not release information indicating from which sites they obtained their list. Dear Internetz, We are…
Amazon Invests in Big Data Startup, ParAccel Pushes On
By Robert Manto
ParAccel Inc., one of the emerging companies in big data analysis, announced the closure of its Series E funding round with Amazon joining in with other ParAccel investors – Menlo Ventures, Mohr Davidow Ventures,…
Stolen iPad Found in Pants of TSA Agent. Passengers Enraged!
By Ross LaRocco
The TSA is readily known for groping and fondling one’s personal “assets” as a procedure for travel security. As uncomfortable as this topic is, it reveals the things you try to hide. What does…
Virtualization Grows with Virtustream Funding: Product Launches and New Investments
By Robert Manto
Coming off a partnership with VMware, virtualization startup Virtustream recently announced an additional investment of $10 million of Series B round financing to enhance its virtualization offerings. The company’s Series B funding comes from…
Data Warehouse Vendors Differ in Hadoop Integration
Big Data is the future, a fact both EMC Greenplum and HP Vertica recognize. But the two data warehouse vendors are taking very different approaches to Hadoop, the open source Big Data processing framework.…
This Week in the Cloud: Big Data, Consumer Computing and Privacy
As always, this past week has been packed with significant developments from several companies looking to monetize all the demand surrounding the cloud. Amazon Web Services is currently one of the largest players in…
Who’s Calling Please? Pricy Automated Systems Scare Customers Off
My family and I recently moved, meaning I had to transfer my utilities and cable/internet to the new house. As it turns out, my utility company has great online self-service capabilities. It took me…
Business Has No Business on Google+
News broke earlier about the removal of non-user profiles (i.e. businesses, universities, NGO, teams, brands, organizations, etc.) in Google+ until a specialized service has been officially released. The company has asked businesses to hold…
Business Intelligence in the Cloud? A Not So Simple Service
There’s a flaw in the cloud-based business intelligence model. Too many vendors are offering the icing but not the cake. That’s the argument made by Wayne Eckerson in a blog post: Expectations Vs Reality: Understanding…