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Intel Launches Fourth Generation Mobile Chip
Intel is looking to loosen ARM’s grip on the mobile market with Haswell, the recently unveiled successor to its hugely popular Ivy Bridge architecture. The company says that Haswell chips are smaller, faster and consume less energy – three major selling points that management hopes will catch the attention of mobile device manufacturers. This week, ...
Nate Silver Says Big Data is Not a Free Ticket to Success | #tcc13
Nate Silver, a statistician who earned celebrity status after accurately predicting the results of the 2012 presidential election, stopped by theCUBE at this week’s Tableau Customer Conference to share his unique insights into Big Data analytics. Silver says that individuals often misinterpret data in an effort to validate their personal views or apply it to an ...
Cisco Jumps on Flash Bandwagon with Whiptail Acquisition
Cisco announced this morning that it’s bolstering its UCS server platform with the acquisition of Whiptail, a privately-held provider of all-flash storage arrays. The $415 million deal is expected to be completed in the first quarter of fiscal year 2014. Founded in 2009, Whiptail addresses the high cost of flash with rackmount storage systems that ...
QLogic Releases New Adapters for ProLiant Users
QLogic is cozying up to HP with two new adapters for ProLiant Generation 8 blades and ProLiant DL and SL series servers. The adapters feature QLogic’s latest Fibre Channel technology, which offers three times the IOPS and double the throughput of previous generation solutions. The HP QMH2672 16Gb host bus adapter provides increased bandwidth for ...
Microsoft Brings Xbox Music to iOS, Android
Microsoft is pushing into enemy territory with Xbox Music, a streaming service that was once only available on Xbox 360 and Windows 8. That changed on Monday, when the software titan rolled out new apps that let users play unlimited music on their Android and iOS devices for $9.99 per month or $99.99 per year. ...
Weekly Big Data Review: R Takes Center Stage
It’s been an interesting week in the Big Data space. Tableau and Syncsort announced a strategic partnership to unlock data in legacy information silos, KDnugget published the results of its latest data science survey, and Wikibon released a new market outlook. Tableau announced that it has joined forces with Syncsort, a New Jersey-based provider of ...
Tableau Poses a Threat to Traditional BI Vendors
SiliconANGLE theCube hosts Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly kicked off this year’s Tableau Customer Conference by drilling down into the dynamics that helped the data visualization firm get to where it is today. Dave highlights that Tableau is a $200 million company with a $4 billion market cap. The vendor recorded a compound annual growth ...
Weekly Cloud Review: From APIs to Data Centers
Developers are a driving force behind the rapid adoption of cloud computing in the enterprise. For companies like Axway, they represent a massive market opportunity that simply can’t be ignored. The Phoenix, Arizona-based cloud solutions provider kicked off the week by pulling the curtains back on a new release of its API management platform. Version ...
Icahn Drops Out of Dell Bidding War
Activist investor Carl Icahn has decided to end his pursuit of PC maker Dell after a 14-month struggle to thwart a buyout offer from founder Michael Dell and his ally, the investment firm Silver Lake Partners. The Dell camp is looking to privatize the company as part of an ambitious plan to shift its focus ...
Virident’s Ken Grohe Discusses the Flash Transformation #VMworld
We’re taking this opportunity to recap some of the wise words spoken by Ken Grohe, the vice president of worldwide customer operations for Virident Systems, who stopped by theCube at VMworld 2013 to share his take on the rapid adoption of PCIe flash beyond the realm of web-scale giants. Of recent interest on Virident is the ...
