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Turning Data Into Actionable Knowledge is Key to Big Data Management [CEO Series]
Scaling mountains of data is becoming a necessary skill set in today’s business and consumer world. Envisioning the systems behind this is ZL Technologies CEO Kon Leong, an inquisitive man with a provocative perspective. Running a company that provides software solutions for enterprise’s unmanageable big data problem, Leong has an idea or two on how systems should be developed, implemented and ...
Where’s the Data Fit into Social TV Platforms and Ads?
While the social element of television is not new, Social TV is a relatively new concept used to describe the emerging generation of television services that integrate with other communication platforms like voice, chat and social media on the web. Social TV leverages the power of social networks to create a new type of highly ...
VSPEX is Channel Partner Friendly, says EMC CMO Jeremy Burton
EMC revealed some big news this morning with VSPEX, a new package its formed around several of its existing products to make for a ready-made converged infrastructure solution that’s channel friendly. Shortly after his keynote this morning, EMC CMO Jeremy Burton stopped by theCube with SiliconAngle founding editor John Furrier and Wikibon founder Dave Vellante ...
Sumo Logic Brings Data Rock Stars to Advisory Board
Sumo Logic is a maker of a cloud-based log management and analytics platform that exited stealth earlier this year, after a $15 million second round of funding. The company raised a total of about $20 million in capital to date and is now stepping into high gear with its new advisory board. Sumo Logic brought in ...
Springpad Overhaul Adds Collaboration with Public Notebooks. I’m In Love
Springpad’s just dropped version 3.0 of their productivity suite, launching the public, collaborative notebooks I’ve been anticipating for some time. The update brings them one step closer to matching certain functions of Evernote while differentiating their tools around actionability, making for one extremely useful tool. I’ve taken to using Springpad on a daily basis, curating ...
eXo Announces UXPaaS for the Enterprise
eXo is introducing a new hosted collaboration solution for the enterprise named Cloud Workspaces, dubbed as a “user experience platform-as-a-service.” The concept of an enterprise social network designed to help workers leverage the social tools within the office is nothing new, and Cloud Workspaces seems to come with all the standard features. It includes a ...
What Facebook’s Instagram Buy Means for its Mobile Strategy: Data, Search
Facebook’s taken the proactive measure of acquiring Instagram, the mobile photo-sharing network regularly referred to as Facebook’s biggest competition. What’s most notable about the deal is the price tag – $1 billion for the startup that, just last week, was going after a $50 million funding round with a valuation of $500 million. Instagram’s certainly ...
Computers Need a Social Network (The Cloud), Says Eucalyptus CEO Marten Mickos
Coming off a recent partnership with Amazon Web Services for efficient workload migration, Eucalyptus reiterates its mantra for flexible cloud environments. And with the vision of CEO Marten Mickos, known for his early involvement with MySQL (sold to Sun Microsystems in 2008), Eucalyptus takes an open approach to cloud clusters and Services in anticipation of tomorrow’s computing ...
HTML5 Needs Frameworks to Transition Developers, Users into Mobile Future
HTML5 is said to be “the one” that would dominate all forms of computer language from desktops to mobile devices, toppling Flash along the way. Back in November, Adobe pulled the plug on their Flash for mobile to focus on HTML5, which was a hard pill to swallow since the late Steve Jobs was never really ...
Pinterest’s Opportunity in Spammers? An API
Pinterest, the online pinboard that lets users organize and share photos of the things they love, is making a lot of noise as a rising star in socially-driven startups. They recently changed their terms of service to keep the content of Pinterest clean, as in free from photos that promote self-harm and self-abuse, added a new ...
