The cloud is beginning to see adoption in the enterprise, and the race is on for Amazon, traditional vendors and other newcomers like Google. Pricing wars aside, Amazon is looking to redefine the cloud in order to drive mainstream adoption in the enterprise. This week SiliconANGLE's premier production #theCUBE heads to San Francisco for Amazon's one-day AWS Summit, speaking with users like Flipboard, Cap Gemini and Alfresco to hear firsthand what's working with AWS, and whether or not it's ready for prime time.
Once deemed a cloud tool best reserved for startups, Flipboard's Head of Operations Joey Parson's says that AWS is good for start-ups, but Flipboard sees many " staying in the cloud". Also helping to push software-driven solutions in the enterprise is Cloudera, building an entire busiess around Hadoop. This week we hear from Wikibon analyst Jeff Kelly about the Data Economy, as he recounts lessons learned from Cloudera's first-ever Analyst Day. The cloud is a promising development for consumers, too. Earlier this moth I traveled to Austin, TX for the annual SxSW festival, honing in on the latest developmets in home automation, starting with the Connected Home Developers Garage. Invited by the event host iControl, I was able to get a hands-on demo of their setup for tier 1 clients like Time Warner for smart home solutions. -Kristen Nicole Martin, Senior Managing Editor | |  AWS good for startups, but Flipboard sees many “staying in the cloud”
This week SiliconANGLE's theCUBE was at the Amazon Web Services Summit in San Francisco, and we welcomed Flipboard’s Head of Operations, Joey Parsons. Flipboard has recognized and seized on the fact that we are steadily moving toward an all digital delivery of consumptive content. Parsons sat down with Jeff Frick and John Furrier to discuss how AWS has been perhaps one of the more important keys to the rapid success of his company. |  Is the Smart Home buzzing at SxSW 2014? SxSW had a cool feature this year, the Connected Home Developers Garage. The event host, iControl, invited our Senior Managing Editor Kristen Martin to an early look at their setup, demonstrating one of their partners’ solutions. Brands like Comcast, Apple, Lowes and ADT will be the gateway to mainstream adoption for the smart home. They all see the lucrative opportunity in consumer services that manage home systems like security cameras, door locks and the thermostat. |  Bitcoin Weekly 2014 March 26: IRS to tax bitcoins as property, Kraken exchange implements reserves audit, MtGox found 200k missing coins “Bitcoins will be taxed as property, not currency,” the IRS has made official in a policy statement when it comes to bitcoins and Federal taxes. No doubt this change will generate a very interesting media storm. Bitcoin exchange Kraken has submitted to a cryptographic audit for proof-of-reserves and passed, as well as become the recipient of $5 million in investment dollars. Oh, and MtGox is only missing 650k bitcoins now. | |  AWS Summit should provide guidance for companies in market for cloud services
For the last two years AWS has been growing at a phenomenal rate, with no sign that that growth is going to slow anytime soon. This year for the first time it is facing real competition from providers with the resources to match its own, in the form of IBM and potentially HP and the Google Compute Engine. At this weeks one-day summit, AWS addressed the elephant in the room, the cloud services market. |  The Data Economy: What I learned at Cloudera Analyst Day Any start-up trying to commercialize Hadoop as their main line of business has two important challenges to tackle: 1) Deciding on and executing a business model (open core, services only, largely proprietary, etc.) and 2) Building a world-class company, from sales and support to marketing and HR. At Cloudera’s first-ever analyst meeting last week, the company spent an entire day educating the analyst community as to their progress in tackling both challenges. Here’s what I learned. |  Google Flu Trends: A case of Big Data gone bad? Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time, but sadly Google Flu Trends has turned out to be a prime example of what can go wrong when you read too much into your Big Data. When Google Flu Trends first kicked off back in 2009, the search giant thought it was being rather crafty and had hit on a foolproof way to track outbreaks of influenza around the world. Well, it hasn't. In 2012 researchers at the University of Washington stated that the site was around 25 percent less accurate than the CDC. More recently, in 2013, an article in Nature said that Google Flu Trends was overestimating influenza cases by around 50 percent. | | |
