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Can data management be as easy as Facebook? Alpine Data Labs thinks so | #BigDataSV
It’s a week of Big Data celebration with #BigDataSV kicking off today, and the Strata Conference taking place right across the street. As expected, a number of product announcements have hit the news stream this week, as Big Data players like Cloudera, Red Hat and MapR release updates and fresh services that all seem to ...
Smart home startup advice : User interface design trends
A quick perusal of Kickstarter or Indigogo confirms, the smart home market is a thrilling place to be. Thanks to crowdfunding, quick-build smartphone apps and decreasing hardware costs, anyone can craft and launch a smart home service, connecting people and their abodes. Let’s not forget about the cool factor. The smart home is a geek’s ...
Going to Strata? … Party with theCUBE @ #BigDataSV!
It’s Big Data season, and a love for analytics is in the air. If you’re attending Strata, take a break from the show floor and join friends and #theCUBE alum for drinks and hors d’oeuvres. #theCUBE Party @ #BigDataSV 2014 tops off three days of live coverage of Big Data and analytics on #theCUBE. Full details below. You’re invited! Save the ...
There’s a new Home Brew Club for the data center | #OCPSummit
This has been dubbed the year of the cloud, and that represents a complete reengineering of the data center. SiliconANGLE founder and Editor in Chief John Furrier is leaving it to the alpha geeks to drive the innovation required to rethink the data center, noting a cultural shift in Silicon Valley. In the middle of ...
For Cisco, the road to the hybrid cloud runs through the (software-defined) network
As cloud services continue to gnaw away at traditional IT infrastructure, incumbent vendors are finding themselves with no option but to embrace the time-honored philosophy of “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.” IBM and HP are standardizing on OpenStack in a bid to conquer the private cloud, while more strategically-minded firms like Cisco are ...
Pinterest’s global success depends on low key people, high profile analytics
To continue momentum and truly rival the likes of Facebook, Pinterest must go global. Still a relatively young network, Pinterest must also manage its rapid growth. The social network is hoping to balance growth and relevance by hiring low key managers in international offices, while developing relationships with high profile brands. At the heart of ...
Trust is Nest’s new angle as Hackers attack smart homes
The question of Nest selling your personal data wasn’t a top concern with consumers until it sold its entire company to Google, an organization that arguably could have access to more web-connected data points than any other in the world. Google’s $3.2 billion acquisition of the smart thermostat maker signaled its intention in the smart ...
SwiftStack optimistic as open storage continues to gain momentum
Things are looking bright for SwiftStack as the rapid growth in unstructured information continues to drive the adoption of object storage, a new paradigm for managing data that is moving into the enterprise mainstream with OpenStack. The San Francisco-based startup is a core contributor to the project, and commercializes it with an on-premise controller that ...
Nutanix an acquisition target after $101M round : Software assets are key
Nutanix, a frontrunner in the fast-growing hyperconvergence market, just netted another $101 million in a fourth financing round led by Riverwood and SAP’s venture capital arm. New investors Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital and Greenspring Associates also chipped in, along with existing backers Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures and Battery Ventures. The funding could very well ...
Is Nutanix an acquisition target after $101M funding round?
Nutanix has announced a $101M Series D funding and has surpassed $100M of lifetime booking (in the eight quarters). These are both significant signs of customer traction and potential for growth. Nutanix’s engineering DNA is from companies like Google and Facebook and its virtual computing platform brings hyperscale design principles to the enterprise. While the ...
