 We're getting ramped up for the #BigDataSV event, kicking off next week. theCUBE is stoked for our next independent Big Data broadcast on SiliconANGLE.tv, running February 11th-13th. Three days of live interviews with Big Data practitioners, thought-leaders, vendors, venture capitalists, journalists and more. That's three days of great conversation as we enter the era of the data economy, when organizations will succeed or fail based largely on their ability to leverage data and analytics. Traditional vendors are switching up their strategies to match the demands of this new data economy, including Microsoft. The software giant named Satya Nadella as the new CEO, a leader known for his experience in the enterprise, helping to rework much of Microsoft’s infrastructure for long-reaching products including data-rich Bing and consumer web-ready Xbox. But is Nadella too safe of a choice for Microsoft? Would an outsider like Google's Sundar Pichai have been better suited to lead Microsoft into the new consumer web? Microsoft, like its peers and rivals in the industry, is betting big on the modern data center, but with Nadella at the helm, is the Redmond company landing on the wrong side of the cloud? See Nadella's vision for the modern datacenter in this exclusive interview with theCUBE. Social giants have helped introduce the concepts driving modern datacenter architecture, but are still fleshing out their business strategies. This week Twitter announced its first earnings call to little fanfare. However, our Editor-in-Chief John Furrier believes that Twitter is smart to focus on user experience and not timeline impressions. Also, Facebook turned 10 this week, so here's 10 ways Facebook has changed your life, experimenting with revenue opportunities along the way. -Kristen Nicole Martin, Senior Managing Editor | |  In the data economy analytics is king #BigDataSV 2014 By 2020 the big data technology products and services market will grow to $50 billion from a base of $11.6 billion in 2012, Wikibon predicts, and the total worldwide volume of data is expected to reach 6.6 zettabytes by 2020 in the United States alone. To learn more about what is happening and how your organization can start gaining business advantage through new big data technologies and processes, watch theCUBE’s big data event, BigDataSV 2014, on SiliconAngle February 11-13.
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- |  Opinion: Twitter’s Just Did Smart Thing – Focus on User Experience Not Timeline Impressions #twtr Yesterday, in Twitter’s historical first earnings call, SiliconANGLE's Founder John Furrier live tweeted Twitter CEO Dick Costello's comments. Of all his comments, Furrier's favorite was when he said, “Twitter is global public, real-time, conversation, distributed, and unfiltered.” There is an management expression in Big Data: “There is data to delight and data to decide.” There is lots of data to analyze, but one glaring thing stood out in Costello's introduction. Twitter management is smart to focus on a core metric: User engagement. |  The plight of gaming networks and the threat of DDoS on the modern Internet Getting home from a long day of work and finding that you cannot play your favorite video game isn't a game system or game cartridge issue, it’s because some jerk on the Internet has felt the need to hit the network with a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. Cyber vandals and goths rampaging across the Internet causing mayhem is not going away. In fact, according to CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince believes that 2014 will only see the problem get worse. | |  Microsoft’s new CEO Satya Nadella shares vision for Cloud Microsoft announced this week Satya Nadella as the new CEO of Microsoft. Nadella is known for his experience in the enterprise, helping to rework much of Microsoft’s infrastructure for long-reaching products including Bing and Xbox. But is Nadella too safe of a choice for Microsoft? Would an outsider like Google's Sundar Pichai have been better suited to lead Microsoft into the new consumer web? Microsoft, like its peers and rivals in the industry, is betting big on the modern data center, but with Nadella at the helm, is the Redmond company landing on the wrong side of the cloud? |  Look Back: 10 ways Facebook has changed our lives
Facebook celebrated its 10th birthday with a nice-somewhat-cheesy Look Back video. But rather than have one video showing you Facebook’s history, the video recalls your own. Ahead of its 10th year anniversary, Facebook unveiled Paper, an app that aggregates social and news content, and looks much, much better than the old Facebook app. Facebook gave us it’s thank you gift for helping it reach a decade, but how has it impacted our lives? Here are 10 ways Facebook has changed your life.
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- - |  Apple declares war on Bitcoin, but it’s a war that it’s destined to lose Apple is now officially an enemy of Bitcoin. The world’s most valuable company has just launched another salvo in its war against the cryptocurrency, banning the popular Bitcoin wallet Blockchain from its app store without giving any clear reason why. With blockchain no longer available on the app store, it means that iPhone and iPad users are left with no native Bitcoin wallet option to send and receive the cryptocurrency. Blockchain isn’t going away. Bitcoin certainly isn’t. And that means people will still be able to access free international money services on their smartphones, no matter where in the world they might be. The only difference is, if Apple doesn’t change its position, those people will be using Android devices to do it. | | |
