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SuccessFactors Founder Lars Dalgaard Signs Up with Andreessen Horowitz
Andreessen Horowitz snagged SAP’s famed cloud boss to inject more synergy into its investment operations and boost entrepreneurs’ leadership mojo. Ben Horowitz blogged the news on Thursday. Lars Dalgaard has an impressive resume. SAP brought him on board to head its Cloud Business and serve on its Executive Board and Global Managing Board after it ...
Terremark’s Jim Anthony Reveals the New eCloud
Terremark’s representatives showed up at that EMC World 2013 conference in Las Vegas to spread the word about the new functionality that was recently added to Enterprise Cloud (eCloud) platform, the firm’s highly configurable infrastructure-as-a-service solution. SiliconAngle Head Writer Winston Edmonton interviewed Jim Anthony, the vice president of sales engineering at Terremark, to bring you ...
EMC World 2013 Panel: The Cloud is Transforming IT – Here’s How
The cloud is driving new business models in the enterprise, forcing IT departments and service providers to adjust in the face of changing demands and increased competition. Wikibon co-founder and chief analyst Dave Vellante addressed this trend at EMC World 2013, where he hosted a panel discussion featuring three prominent business and technology leaders: Sean ...
Jason Mendenhall of Switch on the Value of Ecosystems
SiliconAngle Head Writer Winston Edmondson caught up with Switch Communications’ Jason Mendenhall at EMC World 2013 to get his take on co-location, connectivity, and the value of a strong cloud ecosystem. Switch fancies itself the world’s best coloc provider. The company operates a 2.2 million square foot data center in Las Vegas that its founding ...
HP: Demand for Traditional Storage Down, Opportunities Lie in Converged Storage
Hewlett-Packard held its second quarter earnings call earlier this week. The hardware behemoth’s revenue fell short of analysts’ expectation but its guidance for the third quarter beat the Street’s estimates by a noticeable margin. More notably, the company revealed that its storage business is collapsing under its own weight. Demand for HP’s converged storage solutions ...
Primer : Hyperscale + Software-led Infrastructure for More Efficiency [Whiteboard Session]
Hyperscale is disrupting the enterprise market, leaving CIOs with no choice but to take a page out of Facebook and Google’s book. Wikibon Senior Analyst Stu Miniman discussed the impact of hyperscale on enterprise IT and shared his analysis of key drivers behind this phenomenon in a whiteboard presentation on the SiliconAngle channel. Miniman starts ...
Pure Storage FlashArray 400 Cracks All-Flash Marketplace but Competition is Imminent
Pure Storage announced that it has started shipping FlashArray 400, the latest iteration of its flagship storage system. The array sports double the performance of the preceding model, new data protection capabilities and enhanced support for third party software. FlashArray 400 delivers up to 100 terabytes of usable storage capacity and as much as 400,000 ...
Memo to Wall Street: NetApp’s Still Got Mojo
Wikibon Co-Founder and Chief Analyst Dave Vellante says that despite the Street’s hesitations about NetApp, the company is uniquely positioned to capitalize on the current trends in the marketplace. Management has its work cut out for it, but it’s all or nothing at this point. Wall Street is not content with the direction that NetApp ...
Was Dell Right to Abandon its Public Cloud Aspirations?
Last week we reported that Dell is overhauling its cloud strategy in an effort to avoid a conflict of interest with service providers, which account for a sizable portion of its hardware revenues. The heart of this initiative is a newly launched partner program that will enable the company to offer public cloud services through ...
Drawn to Scale Closes its Doors
Drawn to Scale, the four year-old startup behind Spire, is closing down. Co-founder and CEO Bradford Stephens announced the news in a recent blog post. Spire is a real-time database solution for HBase that lets data scientists query Hadoop clusters using SQL, a relatively user-friendly language that is much easier to master than the native ...