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Oracle Earnings Call – Prepping Something Big?
Software giant Oracle will have its earnings call on Thursday, a full month before rivals, and according to some reports, its prepping for something big – a new initiative, or even a product launch. Either way, it’s expected to report a tremendous amount of growth for Q3 2010. “Oracle Corp is poised to provide fresh ...
iPad and Android Business Tablet Apps: Take It to the Cloud
Tablets have already started to bite into PC sales, and the technology is storming through the workplace. While tablets haven’t maximized their workspace potential just yet, there are quite a few noteworthy tablet business apps, and here are the best of the week: Air Sharing HD for iPad The app, which got quite a few ...
Today’s Big Data News: EMC, Hadapt and TukoDB
We’ve had quite a bit of big data updates crossing the wire today, stretching all the way from EMC to Hadoop. Today, EMC announced that the University at Buffalo has deployed EMC Isilon scale-out NAS for its Center for Computational Research, which supports hundreds of researchers. The Center provides cluster computing solutions for the entire ...
Big Data Algorithms & Analysis = Insight and Competitive Edge?
Today is Om Malik’s #bigdataconf, a special one-day event he’s holding under the umbrella of his series of cloud-centric Structure conferences. We’ve been following the emergent trend of Big Data here at SiliconANGLE for well over a year now, and a lot of the questions posed as themes for the conference have been addressed by ...
Tech Companies Continue Raising Relief Funds for Japan
The earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan left over 18,000 confirmed dead or missing, and tech companies from the far reaches of Silicon Valley signed up to aid in relief efforts. LivingSocial is the latest company to do so – the daily deals site and Groupon competitor raised exactly $2,301,130 for the American Red Cross’s ...
Every Federal Agency Needs a Big Data Strategy: Report
Big Data innovation and tools adoption is inevitable as the web and tech industry advance and get more and more sophisticated. This is also true for the public sector, which is why the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) working group announced the Designing a Digital Future report. The 119-page report to ...
Where the Personal Cloud Meets Storage: Organizing Facebook, and Everything Else
Social networking was once the new kid on the block, but as it matured to become a multi-billion dollar industry, and spurred a few dozen new industries along the way. Personal cloud and storage took its place amongst these new services. The next big thing may just be personal cloud services -“Facebook is for your ...
CrowdFlower Raises Funds, Goes Beyond Crowdsourcing: Big Data Analytics
Big data is one of the most buzzed about catch phrases you’ll hear in the cloud, and more and more companies are hopping on this bandwagon to turn all that buzz into revenue. The latest example is CrowdFlower, the popular crowdsourcing platform, which announced a couple of big developments today: it raised $7 million in ...
Diskeeper Launches New Analytics Product, Industry Gets Heated
Data protection, hardware optimization and backup are some of the hottest trends in the cloud right now, and we’ve just got an upgrade from Diskeeper. The veteran data performance software vendor, which has been around since 1986, today announced the latest version of its flagship product: Diskeeper 2011. The offering seems to bring along some ...
HP Says Japanese Employees Safe, Prices Going Up
Hewlett-Packard released some information on how it and its local operations were affected from the Japanese earthquake – the same story it shares with other major players in the tech industry. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, HP noted all of its local employees are safe and none of its Tokyo offices ...
