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Amazon Cloud Drive vs. Google Drive, Dropbox + Everyone Else
Comparing cloud hosting providers can be truly frustrating. There are so many features to choose from and all of them seem just slightly different! If you’ve ever purchased a mattress, you know what we mean. It’s hard to compare the strengths and benefits without seeing them side by side. So poof! Here we go: We’ve ...
VMware Spin-out Startup Pivotal Gets $105M for the Industrial Internet Arms Race : Now an Instant Superpower
General Electric just announced that they are pouring in $105 million in investment into Pivotal, the VMware (EMC) spinout that is focusing on the new modern era of developers and cloud. This new investment is on top of the big investment that VMware and EMC are making. This puts Pivotal in a class by itself ...
Industry Leaders Discussing Flash Storage Trends with Analysts #flashahead
Flash is changing system design, permanently. At Wikibon, we liken today’s systems design to a military convoy, where the entire convoy must decelerate to allow the slowest vehicle to keep up. That slowest vehicle in systems today is spinning disk. For nearly two decades we’ve seen function move out of the host into the storage ...
OpenStack Summit Leaders and Startups Bringing Cloud to Enterprise & Service Providers – #openstack
Openstack Summit in Portland Oregon kicks off today with top tech companies like HP, Netapp, Cisco, Rackspace, and Red Hat coming together with startups like Servicemesh, Hortonworks, announcing new product initiatives in a effort to slow down the advances of Amazon Web Services (AWS) into the enterprise and service provider markets. The OpenStack ecosystem is ...
Breaking Analysis: IBM Announces Billion Dollar Investment in Flash Storage #flashahead
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled a strategic initiative to drive Flash technology further into the enterprise to help organizations better tackle the mounting challenges of Big Data. IBM is announcing today, SiliconANGLE and Wikibon are on the ground in NYC, its long awaited plan around the disruptive technology “Flash” or flash storage. IBM just announced ...
Analysis: A New World Order #FlashAhead – Modern Purpose Built Application IT Infrastructure
The biggest technology companies are changing right in front of our eyes. Goldman Sachs, UBS, and other traditional analysts are putting out old school analysis advice to their clients on the big players prospects. Of course those analyst state the obvious: Cloud is up, mobile is hot, consumer social is passe, entertainment going digital, ...
HP Board Shakeup – Ray Lane Steps Down as Chairman Two Others Step Down
After HP’s recent shareholder meeting and recent downgrade by Goldman Sachs, HP announced changes to the Company’s board of directors. According to HP, Raymond Lane has decided to step down as chairman of the board, to be replaced on an interim basis by Ralph V. Whitworth. The board is commencing a search for a permanent ...
Most Disruptive Technology of the Next Five Years Will Be….. #pc13
What will be the next big thing and what will “enable” this disruption. I will try to explore this in Boston this week. Here are my notes as prep for what I think will be the ingredients of the next big thing. I’d like to hear any feedback. Thanks. I am moderating a panel of venture ...
What If Angel Investment Market Crashes?
By Kevin Dick, Founder Right Side Capital Management. In my last post, I showed how diversification helps an angel portfolio get closer to the true underlying return of the market. Based on the AIPP’s historical sample of angel-backed startups that meet my RSCM‘s investment criteria, we saw that 70 investments would have given you a ...
Red Hat Earnings 4th Quarter – Doing Ok But Not Great
This afternoon, Red Hat announced its fourth quarter results and fiscal year 2013 results. Highlights include: Fourth quarter revenue of $348 million, up 17% year-over-year; full fiscal year revenue of $1.33 billion, up 17% year-over-year Fourth quarter subscription revenue of $303 million, up 19% year-over-year; full fiscal year subscription revenue of $1.15 billion, up 19% ...
