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Data2Conf Kicking Off in a Week: Highlights
This year’s Data 2.0 conference is due one week from now, launching on Monday, April 4 at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. The conference, hosted by midVentures, will focus on the rise of data accessibility throughout numerous areas including social, geo, government and advertising data – all of have been very active ...
SingTel Partners with VMware: Expanding the Cloud in Asia
Singapore-based telecommunications service provider SingTel has partnered up with VMware to integrate a part of the virtualization giant’s offerings portfolio, the VMware vCloud Datacenter Services, into its newly launched SingTel PowerON Compute cloud solution. The private cloud offering, and offers simplified integration – as well as a highlighted “no-one-cloud-fits-all” approach: “Companies will be able to ...
Microsoft the Last to Invest in IPv4? The End Is Near.
2011’s Y2K. The Internet Address and Naming Agency (IANA) rolled out 40 billion 32-bit IPv4 addresses roughly 40 years ago, but after that much time, and 2 billion internet users later, we ran out of the precious commodity. This is where the presumably bumpy transition to IPv6 comes in, but Microsoft just spent $7 million ...
Android not so Open-Source After All: Expansion and Bad Karma
Android was first introduced by Google as the platform which will bring “freedom to the masses” via publicly available source code, but it may just have been a very broad marketing hype. Google today announced it will delay the release of Honeycomb’ source code for the foreseeable future, which puts in question when – or ...
Structure Big Data 2011: SiliconANGLE Highlights & Recap
GigaOM’s Structure Big Data 2011 conference spurred quite a few pieces of interesting news, but it also served a great opportunity for us to highlight the big data topics we’ve been following for over a year at SiliconAngle. First of all, we can look at some of the highlights noted by some of the Data ...
Oracle, RIM, GameStop Exeed Exceptatons, Boost Revenues
Oracle had its earnings call today for fiscal Q3 2010, and it topped all estimates. Profit (with acquisition costs and some other expenses not calculated in) rose to 54 cents a share – which topped analysts’ average estimate by 4 percent. New software license sales rose 29 percent to $2.21 billion, which is much higher ...
This Week in the Cloud: EU, Open-Source and HP Make Strides
Cloud adoption is a growing trend on a global scale, and as demand explodes, many companies are jumping on this profitable bandwagon, further pushing innovation – and interesting news developments. The European Union has paid attention to all this, and as vendor lock-in concerns intensify with the emergence of newer and better providers, the EU ...
Privacy in the Age of Big Data: Surveillance Society is Inevitable
Big data gives enterprises increasingly deeper and widespread insight into customer behavior, activities and even location on an individualized yet massive scale as adoption, demand and tools expand this space. This of course has all the usual benefits we’ve covered extensively lately, but from a different angle, it may lead to an “irresistible” surveillance society, ...
Wolfram Alpha’s Role in the Algorithm Driven Newsroom [Big Data Journalism]
What happens when you put big data to use? You can find answers to a lot of questions simply by asking. SiliconANGLE’s Editor-in-Chief Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins interviewed computational search engine Wolfram Alpha’s Luc Barthelet at SxSWi 2011, and discussed several aspects of the company including its position in the market. Barthelet discussed the differentiation of ...
Cloud Start-Ups Take on the VM Stall, Performance Testing and So Much More
Cloud start-ups seem to be popping out from everywhere these days, and they’re bringing with them a great deal of innovation matching the biggest names in the industry. The first and perhaps most notable start-up we’ll highlight is Tintri, founded by Kieran Harty who helped develop VMware’s virtulization technology. The start has a new product, ...
