Maria Deutscher
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Violin Memory Gets Stuffed with Cash, Juniper Networks Invests in $35M Round
Cloud scaling company Violin Memory announced it has raised $35 in Series B funding from multiple investors, including new investor Juniper Networks and Toshiba America Electronic Components. A single Violin 3140 is said to support 40TB worth of Flash storage and 10K Flash devices. “Violin Memory is a true performance leader in high-end silicon storage,” said ...
Clouds Develop Over Open Territory: This Week’s Trends
SiliconANGLE is there at the Strata Conference and conducting interviews with all the biggest names attending, but the cloud has been active from other angels as well. The open cloud takes a very big chunk of our list, with Rackspace’s announcement of their latest OpenStack code release, Bexar, kicking things off. Bexar brings IPv6, Hyper-V, ...
Strata Conference Recap: Day 3 Keynotes
The O’Reilly Strata Conference has given us insight into the world of big data, how it’s being used and what the future holds for this specific aspect of cloud management. We’ve been covering the conference extensively, highlighting keynotes and panels, as well as holding a number of interviews at our CUBE. Yesterday featured several speakers ...
Social Media and the Cloud Changing Corporate Culture
Social media can be a sticky subject for corporations, especially large and ominous ones that have been around since the age of the dinosaurs (that counts as anything dating back to pre-FDR days, by the way). But social media has become an inexplicably intricate part of our daily lives, touching every aspect of our regular ...
Cisco to Acquire Inlet Technologies for $95M
WSJ reports that Cisco has made plans to acquire video solutions provider Inlet Technologies for $95 million to strengthen its video streaming offerings. Cisco is sitting on a huge stockpile of teleconferencing and home networking resources. This being a major segment for them to focus on, and the acquisition is aimed to further develop and ...
Making Data Work in the Real World: Theme of the Week at Strata 2011
We’ve been streaming live from the 2011 Strata Conference all week, and there were certainly a lot of things going on these past two days. The first highlight to discuss is the Strata Real World Applications Panel which included of 4 industry experts: Kenneth Cukier, Adam Hurwitz, Jinesh Varia and Mario Veiga Pereira. Each of ...
OpenStack Steady on Update Releases, Bexar Widens the Cloud
Rackspace pushed out a Bexar code release for OpenStack Compute and OpenStack Storage today. The update comes with new features and a dedicated documentation site, preempting the launch of the next two code releases this Cactus and Diablo. The Bexar release of OpenStack Compute introduces new enterprise features that streamline the installation process, allow users ...
Two Petes Talk Data Markets at O’Reilly Strata Conference 2011
Stratus Security’s Pete Soderling and BuzzData’s Pete Forde attended at the Strata Conference yesterday and held a session on the “Building and Pricing the Data Marketplace”. Their point was that there’s room for change when it comes to data marketplaces. “But what is data, and why should we care? High value top-down data sets like ...
Our Big Data is the Next Industrial Revolution: Strata Keynote Highlights, Day 2
The Strata Conference really kicked into high gear yesterday, and the second day of the sold-out event featured multiple speakers, kicking-off with Conference co-chair Edd Dumbill’s opening introductions. He discussed William Smith‘s map of geological strata in the British Isles and the progress of modernization, which he used to illustrate the world of data. SiliconANGLE ...