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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 ...
Facebook Launches Social Search – Called Graph Search
Update: I just spoke with Mark Zuckerberg right after the event and asked him what the tech was involved in this new big search plan. He told me that Facebook built their own system, called Unicorn, and it will have two strategies for this front end to handle the queries and natural language as well ...
Cloud Trends: Can Amazon Shed the Low End Image of Shadow IT in the Enterprise
Research study report from the team at Wikibon.org goes in-depth on Amazon’s Web Service (AWS) plans to attack the enterprise market. Can Amazon win in the enterprise? SiliconANGLE and Wikibon are on the case. Here is a detailed report from Wikibon.org – a must read if you are looking at Amazon in the enterprise market ...
How Many Angel Investments? This is Moneyball of VC Trend
{Guest Post: This is a guest post from Kevin Dick , cofounder of Right Side Capital Management, an emerging algorithmic early stage “moneyball” venture capital firm. Kevin has two degrees from Stanford and has been a founder of multiple successful tech startups.} As regular readers know, I’m a huge fan of the AIPP data set collected by Rob ...
Breaking: EMC Ventures Executive Shawn Douglass Joins ServiceMesh as CTO
Changes at EMC Ventures are happening big time. We saw Pat Gelsinger put his stamp on EMC now VMware. Paul Maritz was sitting at EMC ventures cooking up his next “meal” – the Pivotal Initiative. Of course there was the big Nicira acqusition by EMC VMware. Lots happening there at EMC VMware et al. Now ...