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Doculabs co-founder on taming Big Data | #IBMIoD
Richard Medina, the co-founder and principal consultant of Doculabs, hopped into theCUBE at IBM’s Information on Demand 2013 conference to provide an enterprise perspective on the exponential growth in data volumes. Until recently, business operations revolved around traditional systems of record such as relational databases and ERP software. With the emergence of cloud computing, mobile ...
Pica8 launches SDN starter kit to accelerate adoption
A new infographic from Pica8 reveals that while the research and education sector is at the forefront of software-defined networking adoption, with service providers not too far behind, companies in traditional industries like retail and manufacturing are struggling to keep pace. The Palo Alto, California-based startup is doing its part to bridge this chasm with ...
Weekly Big Data Review: It’s all about the startups
Startups are leading the way in Big Data, even managing to grab the attention of the industry’s largest and most profitable companies. On Monday, Apple confirmed that it picked up Topsy in a deal said to be worth more than $200 million. The San Francisco-based social analytics provider is one of only three firms with ...
Pivotal heads to Europe
Pivotal, the Big Data vendor that spun off from EMC and VMware earlier this year, landed in Europe this week with the opening of an office in London’s Tech City, a major startup hub that has attracted investments from Facebook, Google, Intel and a number of other prominent technology companies in the past. Pivotal plans ...
Seeking to tap new markets, Microsoft sharpens security focus
Following in the footsteps of Google and Yahoo, Microsoft revealed plans this week to expand its encryption efforts as part of a company-wide push to put user data beyond the reach of nosy governments. “Like many others, we are especially alarmed by recent allegations in the press of a broader and concerted effort by some ...
Weekly Cloud Review: IT automation takes the limelight
Threatened by AWS, traditional enterprise vendors are pushing OpenStack in a bid to secure a slice of tomorrow’s IT market. IBM, a staunch supporter of the project, recently teamed up with with an emerging systems integrator to make open source private clouds more transparent – and much more viable at scale. Big Blue’s SoftLayer division ...
theCUBE Conversations: Broadcom strategy chief discusses the network
Emerging technologies are reshaping the enterprise data center, consolidating compute and storage while putting more strain on the network. Greg Scherer, the vice president of server and storage strategy at Broadcom, appeared on the first episode of theCUBE Conversations to discuss IT disruption with Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman. Scherer kicks off the segment ...
Google back in the docket after Oracle appeals in Java copyright case
Oracle sued Google in 2010 for supposedly misusing its Java interfaces to create Android, an allegation that would be dismissed two years later by a California court. U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled that software APIs are not copyrightable, saving Google’s mobile business and removing the Sword of Damocles hanging over the open source community. ...
Stealth startup Nurego gets star-studded support, $2M in funding
The Silicon Valley startup scene has been buzzing with activity these past few days, and now it’s Seattle’s turn to make some headlines. A local team of industry veterans just netted $2 million in funding to help cloud companies make sense of their massive data sets, an SEC filing picked up by GeekWire reveals. The ...
Spinoff startup Trufa raises $4.5M for real-time analytics
Trufa, the newest player on the Big Data scene, announced this week that it has received $4.5 million in Series C funding from prominent venture capital firm Accel Partners. Enterprise software veterans Paul Wahl and Alex Ott are joining the company’s board. Freshly spun off from VMS, a Walldorf, Germany-based provider of SAP outsourcing services, ...
