Policy Pressure from the White Forces NASA to Cut Back Commitment to OpenStack
| May 17thNASA is cutting its contributions to the OpenStack community due to the White House "cloud first," policy. It seems ironic. OpenStack is all about the cloud. But NASA never intended to become cloud platform and now that...»
24 Hours Ahead of Facebook’s IPO: It’s Time to Talk Clean Servers
| May 17thIn just a few years, social media behemoth Facebook managed to build up a $100 billion IPO valuation, and all the credit goes to the 800 million registered accounts on the network – 800 million...»
U.S. Government issues Warning of Specific Malware Exploit at Overseas Hotels
| May 17thSoftware update notices at overseas hotels may actually be attempts to infect travelers' laptops with malware warns the U.S. government's Internet Crime Complain Center (IC3). In a recent Intelligence Note, the IC3 says travelers' attempting to connect to...»
BI Industry Spike Puts Tableau at the Helm
| May 17thData visualization software maker Tableau Software is calling dibs on the BI market now that research firm Gartner ranked it as...»
SAP CIO Oliver Bussmann: Real Time Analytics Will Change Everything
| May 16thSAP CIO Oliver Bussman stopped by The Cube (see full video below) at SAP SAPphire 2012 this week to talk to our own John Furrier and David Vellante about his life as a social media...»
Do You Need a Chief Data Officer?
| March 26thIn his book “Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning,” management and analytics expert Tom Davenport says “Executive sponsorship is so vital to analytical competition…,” and talks about the need for data-driven CEOs such as Gary
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Google Knowledge Graph Means Smarter, Data-Driven Searches
| May 16thToday, Google unveiled the Google Knowledge Graph, an enhancement to the search engine that gives it the brains to tell the differences and relationships between places, people and things - to use Google's own example,...»
SAP Annnounces Free HANA Developer Images on Amazon Web Services
| May 16thOver the past week, SAP and Amazon Web Services announced a number of alliances. Earlier this week, SAP said they would sell Afaria, its mobile management software, on the AWS Marketplace. Last Friday, SAP and...»
SAP Saved the Best for Last – HANA SP4’s New Capabilities
| May 16thIt’s Day 3 of SAP SAPphire, and today the BI software maker finally released the most significant batch of HANA-related news scheduled from the event: HANA service pack 4. The idea is that SAP customers...»
SAP HANA Now the Biggest In-Memory Database in the World
| May 16thSAP rolled out a list of new enhancements, features and integrations for SAP HANA today, demonstrating how SAP is treating it as a foundation for growth and acceleration of its core technology. Perhaps most significant is...»
NetSuite Introduces SuiteCommerce, Launches Commerce-as-a-Service
| May 15thWhile theCube has been at SAP SAPphire 2012 this week, its competition at NetSuite used its own SuiteWorld event here in San Francisco to launch a new commerce-as-a-service (CaaS) product built on the brand new SuiteCommerce...»
Notes From The Field: Inside A Real World Large-Scale Cloud Deployment
| January 21stI’ve been granted an incredible opportunity. Over the past three and a half months I have gotten to lead a real world large-scale delivery of a cloud solution. The final solution will be delivered as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to
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