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Dell Adds Former White House Chief of Staff, Others to Board
Hardware giant Dell is the latest tech company that has added new members to its board of directors. According to a newly released announcement, Janet Clark, Laura Conigliaro and Ken Duberstein are the three execs that are joining the board. “Janet Clark, Laura Conigliaro and Ken Duberstein collectively bring extensive experience in finance, accounting, IT ...
VMware Invests in Storage, Talks Private Cloud
There’s been recent talk concerning VMware’s direction moving forward, especially now that VMworld is over and the company’s presented more of its goals around virtualization. That includes logical storage containers in light of an announcement from VMworld 2011. What VMware is looking to do is getting Logical Units (LUNs) and NFS mount points out of the ...
Andreessen Horowitz Invests in New Hadoop Startup
Platfora, one of the latest Hadoop distributors, announced it has closed a $5.7 million series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. In-Q-Tel, “the independent strategic investment firm that identifies innovative technology solutions to support the missions of the U.S. intelligence community,” also participated in the financing round. Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Scott Weiss will ...
Twitter and its Legal, Freedom of Speech Issues
Twitter and the entire social media space for that matter has seen a bit of turmoil recently, to say the least. The first news concerns a 27-year-old man who was arrested in San Antonio, Texas by the FBI for allegedly making threats against Marissa Mayer , one of Google’s first employees and now VP of local, ...
Microsoft Boosts Plans for Display Ad Market with Software Update
Software giant Microsoft is adapting to the online ad market, and is rolling out new features to its display advertising tool this month to avoid lagging behind Facebook, Yahoo!, and Google in particular. The company is putting an emphasis on helping customers increase targeting, which it hopes to accomplish by updating its Atlas offering, a ...
IBM Puts the B in Big Data Overseas
IBM announced today that YLZ, a Chinese IT solutions provider, chose IBM System z mainframe (running Linux) as the foundation of a plan to extend its “citizen livelihood service information network” to seven more provinces beyond Fujian. This means the service will become available for a total of about 300 million people. The company said it ...
Companies Are Starting to Realize what a Cloud Is
Paul Froutan, the chief technology officer at cloud storage startup Nirvanix, visited theCube again at VMworld 2011 (full video below – see 2nd half here). Froutan joined Nirvanix from Google, where he was in charge of operating the company’s production; the search giant built about five new datacenters during the time he worked there. Froutan ...
Seesmic CRM tops Tablet Business Apps: iPad, Android Edition
This week, we’ve rounded up the usual 5 apps, two of which stand out more than others. First of all, IBM just launched Connections on all the major platforms. Connections, once known as Lotus Connections, is the big blue’s social enterprise platform offering, and it’s a good move by the company to catch up with ...
Cloud Realities at VMworld 2011
The Cloud Realities Spotlight at VMworld 2011 covered some of the biggest of the biggest disruptors the industry has been seeing lately, as well as the whole big data trend that’s been going on in the past year or so. Manish Goel, EVP at NetApp joined for the first of two sessions, and talked about ...
Agility, Not Just Cost, Grows Demand for Converged Networks
The four-part Network Convergence Spotlight held on theCube at VMworld 2011 featured analysis from industry experts, and a look into how the big trends in networking are affecting the rest of the datacenter. Part 1 (full video below) was mostly an observation of some of the biggest drives pushing this trend forward today. Network convergence ...