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Facebook 4th Qtr Results – Mobile Beats Web Usage
Facebook’s 4th quarter report just came out. Revenue for the fourth quarter totaled $1.585 billion, an increase of 40%, compared with $1.13 billion in the fourth quarter of 2011. “In 2012, we connected over a billion people and became a mobile company,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO. “We enter 2013 with good momentum ...
Storage Magic Kingdom: Top 10 Storage Trending Topics in Tech Week of Jan 30, 2013
The publishing and research teams at SiliconANGLE and Wikibon are tracking the top conversations trends in the technology crowd. Verticals include cloud, enterprise mobile, big data, datacenter, software-defined networking, virtualization, devops, and many more. One area in the crowd where the conversation is hot is storage. From a sample size of 240,175 unique users in the storage ...
ThisMoment Proving Social Media Is About Measurement – Keeping it Real As In Real Time
In business there is an old saying and it goes “you can’t understand what you can’t measure”. Recently, there has been a backlash against the “S word” being thrown about by consultants looking to make a quick buck from unknowing audiences. Social is changing as businesses are crying foul and the buck is stopping. Or ...
10gen Promotes Max Schireson to CEO to Scale the Hell Out of 10Gen
SiliconANGLE theCUBE alum Max Schireson was promoted to CEO of 10gen from President according to the company. Co-founder and former CEO Dwight Merriman will continue to serve as Chairman in a full-time capacity. 10Gen powers MongoDB is an open source database system. At Oracle Openworld I sat down with Max Schireson recently to talk about ...
Desperately Seeking Flash – Seagate Invests $40 Million in Virident Systems For Joint Flash Solution
Seagate Technology and Virident Systems announced a strategic partnership to jointly deliver flash storage solutions to the enterprise. In conjunction with the partnership, Seagate is investing $40 million in Virident and will appoint a member to its Board of Directors. With the partnership Seagate will immediately offer a complete line of flash-based PCIe solutions to its OEM and distribution ...
Content Silos and the Distribution of Personal Business Intelligence
Guest Post: This is a guest post by Venture Capitalist Frank Artale, Partner at Ignition Partners. The notion of personal business intelligence may seem a bit odd. The fact of the matter is that we all create, consume, view, and bookmark a large body of content each minute of our online and offline lives. Those ...
Opinion: EMC Cisco NetApp – New Reality TV Show — Cisco Not Leaving VCE Anytime Soon
The IT infrastructure business can sometimes feel like a “reality TV show” and their partnerships a zero sum game. A reality show maybe zero sum game NOT! Today I read a Network World article titled Cisco gets closer to NetApp, further from VCE. Go read it such an amazing plot. Cisco will leave their massive EMC, ...
Linksys Group at Cisco Sold to Belkin
Cisco System dumped their Linksys group in deal with Belkin. It was announced that Belkin entered into an agreement to acquire Cisco’s Home Networking Business Unit which included Linksys. Belkin intends to maintain the Linksys brand and will offer support for Linksys products as part of this transaction. All valid warranties will be honored by Belkin ...
Swipp Startup Announces New Social Network For Sharing
Today, Swipp a Silicon Valley startup announces their social network application platform called Swipp. Swipp is a standalone application and underlying platform that is being launched in 45 countries simultaneously. This should give the new application a good start. Swipp founders told me that they are thinking big. They hope Swipp will become a billion dollar ...
Fusion-io Launched New Hyperscale Flash Product to Scale Data Centers for Enterprises, Not Just Facebook
Two years ago I wrote about Facebook’s infrastructure would be the model for infrastructure of all enterprise information technology environments. That post was an effort to explain (at the time) why SiliconANGLE was bullish on Fusion-io when the general market was confused. It is now what we coined as Software-led Infrastructure (SLI). I wrote about ...