Welcome to the second-to-last week of March, and Software Led-Infrastructure is the best horse out of the gate in the tech industry. For CIOs this is a big deal—and for non-CIOs in the audience here’s a very good primer into what SLI is, and what it means for us.

On the SLI front, Oracle is not standing tall, having taken some sales hits from the open source market; but IBM, on the other hand, has taken to SLI to deal with the need for continuous maintenance. HP’s shares appear to be soaring as well with some wise decisions made placing SLI core to their business plan (also post the Autonomy drama.) Finally, where SLI focuses into Software-Defined Storage, Fusion-io has your back.

Google has made news with the death of Google Reader which means Feedly took up the slack and invited disgruntled Reader readers to try them out(tutorial by Mellisa Tolentino).  And while killing one service, Google tries to grab into another—already held by Evernote and Springpad—with Google Keep. Bitcoin has been having an exciting week with a sudden spike in value driving it up above $70 USD, potentially in connection to financial woes on Europe with Cyprus and Spain. In the wearables market, the rumored iWatch will have competition from a rumored Samsung-Watch, how would they need to stack up?

Pinfluencer has made a big name for itself with Kristen Nicole who quotes its CEO as being in “startup utopia” in spite of changing their name to Piqora and preparing for the upcoming Pinterest internal analytics. Finally, John Casseretto brings us the sinister side of hactivism with an analysis of NATO protocol, in which the “Tallinn Manual on International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare” seems to indicate that hactivists can be killed just like enemy soldiers.

These highlights are just a few from a big week in SiliconANGLE news.  Sign up for our newsletter here, and we’ll see you next week!