CrowdChat with EMC VMAX Senior Managers #VMAX3
Holding a CrowdChat with senior EMC leaders in storage – VMAX to the Power of 3. Ask Brian Gallagher, Fidelma Russo, & Barry Burke anything about the new VMAX platform.
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CrowdChat #DOES14 #Devops
I am hosting a CrowdChat with Steve Brodie and Gene Kim to promote DevOps Enterprise: The Agile, Continuous Delivery and DevOps Transformation Summit, October 21-23, 2014, in Burlingame, CA.
Anonymous social network Secret raises $25 Million
Secret, a mobile-first social network that allows people to share their personal thoughts and beliefs with others anonymously, raised $25 million in a second round of funding that values the company at $100 million and positions it to take on mainstream social networks. …
Pure Storage Bags $225 Million in Funding at $3 Billion Valuation – IPO? No It’s Private Financing
Flash array storage startup Pure Storage announced a massive new $225 million Series F round that values the company at $3 billion and signals a growing trend toward startups raising private capital instead of testing the public markets. This latest investment actually looks …
Live: CrowdChat #CloudChat IBM Watson and Cloud
IBM is hosting an innovative #CrowdChat on Watson and the Cloud. Transcript of the live recorded crowd conversation below. The topics will be about how IBM Watson ties in with #cloud computing. It’s been three years since IBM Watson appeared on Jeopardy, …
Facebook Data Science Team Announces Open Source Tools for A/B Testing
Facebook is continuing their mission of donating goodness to the community with the release of sourcr code called PlanOut. PlanOut is used for online A/B testing experiments. This is a great move for Facebook, developers, and the data community. As we talk …
Cloudera raises monster round of $900 million; $740M from Intel for 18 percent
Cloudera announced that they raised a total of $900 million in equity in a private round of funding. Notable was the monster investment from Intel a whopping $740 million. Reuters reports that this investment was for an 18 percent stake roughly 4.1 …
International Academic Conference looking For industry practitioners to present on “BigData”
An International academic conference on big data management system is looking to bring together researchers, practitioners, system administrators, system programmers, and others interested in sharing and presenting their perspectives on the effective management of Big Data systems. The conference’s Chair Prof. Karsten Schwan …
Arizona Anti Gay Law #SB1062 In Full Rage Debate – WTF
People are shocked that Arizona is considering this anti gay law #SB1062 I’ve created a CrowdChat to bring in the public conversation for an “on the record” crowd chat. www.crowdchat.net/sb1062 Public Chat Live Right Now – See Real Time Embed Below …
Breaking News: Roku Preparing To Go Public
According to Bloomberg report, Roku is preparing to go public later this year. Bloomberg reporter says that a decision to move ahead hasn’t been made, and the Saratoga, California-based company hasn’t selected a lead banker, according to one of their sources who …