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Scala Brings Analytics Closer to the Customer with Cloud App
Scala is a digital signage software maker that’s making a major push into the cloud and analytics, the two buzzwords that have been competing for the spotlight lately. Its latest product is Advanced Analytics, a hosted app that the company plans on offering up to its retail customers in conjunction with the rest of its offerings. ...
Sanbolic Consolidates Windows Server Boxes for NAS
Two of EMC’s most recent promo videos focused specifically on scale-out NAS (network-attached storage), listing the five things enterprise should look for when choosing a solution. Director Nick Kirsch, the presenter in these highlights, also dedicated a few minutes to the five warning signs customers should be looking out for, including a lack of the ...
OnLive for Android Leads Business Tablets Apps of the Week
This week’s weekly tablet business app roundup features some of the best (and latest) tools for the mobile worker. What caught our eye this week was OnLive, released for Android tablets. The OnLive Desktop App introduces the pocket cloud experience, a remote desktop functionality at its core. Android OnLive OnLive’s Android app, optimized for Android 2.3 ...
This Week in the Cloud: Mobile, Azure Outage, and Security
This past week in the cloud has been a fairly interesting one, in light of the Azure outage and other developments. We also got a glimpse of the new era of increasingly supplicated cyber attacks, and how the cloud can play different roles for what is realistically a rising trend. First off is SugarSync. The ...
This Week in Big Data: Strata Conference
A lot of big things are going on in the big data world, and this week’s Strata Conference was one of the more significant developments lately. The industry’s best minds met in Santa Clara to thoroughly discuss an evolving topic, and naturally SiliconANGLE and Wikibon provided constant coverage. All the interviews and highlights can be ...
EMC Steps Up Big Data Plans with Greenplum DB 4.2
EMC’s latest product update comes from Greenplum, the PostgreSQL database and analytics software maker it acquired last year. The news is the announcement of Greenplum Database 4.2, which features a whole line of improvements that make the product much more attractive to enterprise customers. The first tweak is an update to gNET, the tool that’s used ...
Strata Day 3: Event Highlights and Where Big Data Stands Today
This week featured the Strata event, a gathering that’s dedicated to everything big data. It’s an event that has been regularly attended by SiliconANGLE and Wikibon throughout the years. This particular industry has historically been, and still is, a very rapidly evolving one, and Strata provides a rather comprehensive means of tracking the growth of ...
Public Data Still an Untapped Resource: VIDEO
Virginia Carlson of the Metro Chicago Information Center is attending the Strata Conference for the second time, and stopped by theCube with John Furrier and Jeff Kelly. She shared her take on an area that hasn’t been addressed all that much in our big data coverage: exactly how the public center fits in the picture. ...
What We’ll See from Big Data in 2012: Rivalries, Verticals and More Growth
Wikibon analyst Jeff Kelly has drawn out the likely big data trends we’ll be seeing as we head deeper into 2012: many of which have already set root last year, and are currently growing to accommodate the sharply climbing demand. Kelly’s first forecast is that the positive competition in this space will continue to expand and ...
Strata Conference Day 2: Making Use of the Web’s Pool of Data
Strata Conference 2012 is all about big data, a term that has gotten considerably bigger since last year, thanks to a market-wide shift and companies like Cloudera, HortonWorks and MapR. Yesterday we covered Day 1, where alongside the usual influx of launches – including a big announcement from Talend and Yahoo’s spun-off analytics crew – ...