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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% ...
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Storage 2012 – Boring + Irrelevant. The Sad Tech Version of Nielsen?
Gartner’s new Magic Quadrant for midrange and high-end storage arrays is out, and according to a blog post from Wikibon’s chief analyst Dave Vellante, it’s a mashup of different protocols, formats, sizes and shapes. In a word describing this report – Boring. Ok one more word – Irrelevant. Here’s the issue in my opinion – ...
Data: Silicon Valley Startup Scene Getting Squeezed at the Series A Level Says Fenwick & West Law Firm
Fenwick and West, a Silicon Valley law firm, put out data from 2012 that describes the state of the seed financing landscape. This is the firm’s third survey and it is mainly focused on Internet, software, and media startups. Read : Seed Financing Survey 2012 Of the companies funded in 2011, 27 percent had ...
Apple Security Hole Exposes Users – Apple Adds Two Step Verification or Two Factor Authentication
A new security vulnerability affects Apple users that allows anyone who has your email address and date of birth (DOB) to reset your password. While Apple was adding two-factor authentication, it saw a vulnerability that opens a huge security hole if you don’t upgrade. In an apparent good deed gone sideways Apple opened up a security hole while trying to add ...