Top 5 lessons learned at AWS Re:invent
If you still think Amazon Web Services are all about infrastructure, think again. Amazon wants you to manage all your stuff via AWS and it wants to shift the conversation away from price.
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OnBeep snags $6.25M to push pretty, heads-up push-to-talk devices
This is not your dad’s walkie-talkie. OnBeep wants to produce beautiful wearable devices that will let consumers communicate with select colleagues without staring down at their phones
ICYMI: Tracking your electric data and some thoughts on Quirky’s Wink hub
The internet of things is about data. So don’t miss last week’s podcast about data and the Quirky Wink smart home hub review.
How much data can one smart home generate? About 1 GB a week.
The internet of things is about data. So this week’s podcast we talk to a Splunk executive who connected his home and uses the data to inform his lifestyle and purchases.
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Splunk co-founder Swan steps down as CTO, replaced by ex-Continuuity CEO
Splunk is switching CTOs, as co-founder Erik Swan is stepping down to be replaced by former Yahoo exec and Continuuity co-founder Todd Papaioannou.
A tale of two internets of things: Connectivity will invade your home and office in different ways
A third of businesses are already creating products associated with the internet of things but the evolution of connected networks will likely evolve faster in the corporate, rather than the consumer world.
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With competition ramping up, Splunk starts targeting non-techies
Splunk is furthering its evolution beyond IT search with a new set of features that make it easier for business users to create, analyze and visualize machine-generated data sets. With lots of competition popping up everyday, Splunk can’t rest on its laurels.
Logentries snags $10M to build out and market its Splunk competitor
Startup says it can make data logs more understandable and thus more valuable to a non-techie audience. Now it has money to market it accordingly.
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Zynga open sources its server-performance monitor
Zynga has open sourced a tool called zPerfmon that collects and serves all the performance data its engineers could ever need, and all from a single server.
VMware to take on Splunk in managing log data big and small
VMware sees an opportunity to help customers get a hold on unstructured data to understand what’s going on with their infrastructure. Its new Log Insight software will let companies do that.
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Startup Chronon looks to replace logging and record apps instead
One startup pitching in the enterprise-focused Alchemist Accelerator’s second class envisions widespread adoption of an alternative to logging applications: recording and replaying them.
Yikes: a computer worm that targets the energy industry
More computer malware that targets the energy industry has been found. Are power companies ready for these types of attacks? As the power grid and energy companies embrace digital technology, wireless networks, and big data, they’ll have to also embrace the security tools of the Internet.
GigaOM Data Challenge: Predict which stories get read, win $10K
In publishing, there’s a constant struggle to determine who’ll read what posts, what the ideal headline might is and when is the best time to publish. GigaOM is teaming with Splunk to find some answers via a Kaggle competition worth a total of $25,000 in prizes.
Thwarting terrorism with creativity and lots of data
There’s nothing quite like a hypothetical about someone setting a whole block on fire after cutting off the fire department’s electric supply in order to slow its response. Is it comforting to know that smart people and smart analytics could help stop it from happening?
Splunk IPO kills, lives up to expectations
The highly anticipated Splunk IPO has not disappointed, with shares up 90 percent from their opening price at one point. Intense trading tripped NYSE circuit breakers. Surging interest in Splunk reflects a belief that the era of big data is just beginning.
Splunk IPO explained and why it matters
Splunk’s IPO has been much anticipated with good reason. Splunk’s machine data search, analytics and visualization technologies address the gap between the reams of big data generated by the second and the ability to parse and display that data in a meaningful way.
Splunk wants to webify big data
IT analytics company Splunk has received a patent for its method of organizing and presenting big data to mirror the experience of browsing links on the web. Splunk wants users to think about big data like a web problem and not like an analytics problem.
