NASA Leaving OpenStack’s Orbit
| May 17thNASA may have co-founded the much-discussed OpenStack open source cloud platform project with Rackspace Hosting way back in 2010, but thanks to pressure from the White House to move IT infrastrucure the public cloud, the...»
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...»


Show Me the Money – Investing in a Support Infrastructure
| May 16thI have been in Customer Support long enough to know that if you think you have achieved your Customer Support goals and have the perfect model for sustained success, you need to think again. The reality is that
...»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...»


Cloud Enabled Mobility… Really?
| May 16thI was recently asked to speak at CloudSlam12 in San Francisco. My topic focused on enabling mobility in the work place by leveraging cloud models to reduce enterprise IT time to market without compromising security or usability of mobile
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