Five key technology sectors are enabling the smart city: smart grids, smart transport, smart water and waste management, smart building systems, and the enabling ICT platforms for the smart city. Key players like IT companies, telcos and utilities must learn how to harness those technologies, and quickly. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
HP’s X5000 is a purpose built NAS box resulting in best in class performance. There are many options for NAS but X5000 is the only HA windows appliance on the market. For best in class file serving, integration and ease of use X5000 is the tool. Read more »
Digital influence is one of the hottest trends in social media and it is also one of the least understood. Like some relationships on Facebo… Read more at paidContent »
Chinese search engine leader Baidu is holding a developers conference today, from where it has just launched a cloud storage platform called… Read more at paidContent »
One solution to the big data skills shortage has been consulting firms that specialize in deploying big data systems companies need to make sense of their information. These companies will continue to play a vital role in helping us make sense of the the data deluge. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Drowning in resumes? Read this article to find out how one company saved 20–30 percent of hiring costs and dramatically streamlined its hiring process by using an innovative, new software solution. Learn more about how this cloud-computing hiring solution changes the game. Read more »
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Many have predicted a “big data tsunami” that will transform the energy sector and open an entirely new market for smart-grid data analytics. Stepping into the fray is the next generation of smart-grid companies poised to use data to change energy consumption. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
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Media owners may be spooked by Pinterest’s controversial re-use of copyrighted content – but they could have plenty to gain from embracing,… Read more at paidContent »
Cleantech Forum San Francisco kicks off its 10th annual event in just a few weeks at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco. Here are the top 10 reasons that you should go now and register. Save $500 too with discount code EARTH500. Read more »
It used to be that we were all just consumers — or most of us were, anyway. We’d watch TV or read a book or listen to the music on the radi… Read more at paidContent »
The emergence of the big data phenomenon is fundamentally changing everything from the way companies operate to the way people interact to how the world deals with outbreaks of infectious diseases. Here we highlight 10 case studies illustrating how big data is changing the world. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
The storage team and their decisions can hold the success of virtualization project hostage — they can enable or undermine the desired outcome. That’s where the skills of an FBI hostage negotiator are valuable. And HP P4000 SANs have seen a lot of happy endings. Read more »
The increasing heterogeneity of today’s data centers combined with accelerating growth has made the problem of backup SLAs more difficult than ever. This post discusses how HP’s StoreOnce B6200 can solve this problem while saving you money. Read more »
Prior to the digital age, there were three companies that, acting like undersea currents, steered all news. Namely, I am referring to the bi… Read more at paidContent »
Notable about all the places that offer free WiFi in London is a requirement to accept the terms and conditions – and, in almost all cases… Read more at paidContent »
Well, that was quick. Two weeks ago, Barry Diller announced an ambitious cloud-based TV service that streams over-the-air channels to internet devices for $12 a month. This week, broadcasters offered their opinion in the form of a lawsuit that seeks to shut off the service. Read more »
Much of the talk about Andrew Breitbart today, in the wake of his death, has focused on his politics, which people either tend to love or hate. But there was another side to him—the digital media pioneer. Here’s that story. Read more »
Mobile deals combine location-aware discounts with mobile marketing campaigns. What are the largest pitfalls in this promising space, though? Privacy and security issues must be addressed to assure consumers their purchases are secure and their location is being closely guarded. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
We can probably agree that the local supermarket has no moral or ethical or business obligation to sell cherry-flavored Cap’n Crunch. If the… Read more at paidContent »
Deliver today’s high-bandwidth applications to the edges of the network. Brocade fabrics dramatically increase automation and provide the same reliability and scalability you’d expect to find in a data center even at the very edges of the network. Brocade. The leader in cloud-optimized networking. Read more »
Tablets represent the next evolution in the advancement of mobile computing, and by 2015 or 2016, the tablet will begin to replace the laptop and the desktop operating systems market will begin to level off or perhaps decline. Our latest forecast examines these trends in detail. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
I met my current boyfriend four years ago in the elevator of our Georgetown dorm. Our friendship slowly grew until we went on our first dat… Read more at paidContent »
Government officials in the city of Shijiazhuang raided an unnamed Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) reseller (not an official brand store) over the weeken… Read more at paidContent »
The Financial Times now reaches 2.2m people across the world on a daily basis, according to the latest Average Daily Global Audience (ADGA)… Read more at paidContent »
Last year, it became clear that Facebook is well on its way to becoming a social operating system underlying our digital lives. And the enh… Read more at paidContent »
Is 2012 “the year of mobile?” No sir. Mobile is simply too disruptive to have just one year. After all, who remembers the year of the TV or… Read more at paidContent »
Another signal of the growing attention being paid to the streaming video sector, and specifically the growing emphasis on made-for-web cont… Read more at paidContent »
Is Sprint’s bet on the iPhone paying off, or costing it a pretty penny? In the company’s Q4 earnings, the carrier boasted that 40 percent (7… Read more at paidContent »
Last week, we highlighted how Facebook is already using mobile devices for commercial services — enabling people to buy Facebook Credits an… Read more at paidContent »
Today brings news of yet another round of capital-intensive cost-cutting for the challenged mobile phone maker Nokia: the company today anno… Read more at paidContent »
It took one allegation of download bots on a message board, very little in the way of actual confessions, and a whole lot of murmurs, but Ap… Read more at paidContent »
Research In Motion is undeniably on the ropes at the moment, with the mobile handset maker weathering a decline in global market share, dela… Read more at paidContent »
Much of today’s business communication activity still happens in email, but that presents a problem for the current on-the-go workforce. This report, based on a recent survey of business managers, highlights some of the problematic areas around business content collaboration and provides options for working through them. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
When you read the headlines of how ubiquitous smartphones are becoming, and how in some countries the mobile device is overtaking the PC in… Read more at paidContent »
Android held on to its title as the most-popular smartphone platform in the U.S. in the last quarter, but when it comes to sales of specific… Read more at paidContent »
Another bad-news day for HTC, which is sorely in need of one or two killer, new products to turn around its fortunes in the ever-competitive… Read more at paidContent »
This report outlines the myriad issues at play in Facebook’s move, from examining how CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to rewire the world to understanding the company’s infrastructure dependency. But from every angle, it’s clear the effects will ripple throughout the startup and tech communities. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
It’s not digital advertising in the sense of display ads and search results, but it looks like we are getting a bit more color on what it is… Read more at paidContent »
