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HP’s Big Infrastructure Announcements at HP Discover Germany Software Defined Datacenter
HP Storage team just introduced at their European HP Discover (#hpdiscover) event what they call as their biggest announcement ever. Here is our Breaking Analysis of their approach that we just posted. HP announced the following new product and solutions. HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 Storage Effortless Tier 1 Storage with Midrange Affordability HP StoreAll Storage ...
HP Official Response to Mike Lynch Letter to Board – “Stand Down Liar”
HP just issued a response to Mike Lynch’s open letter to the board. HP is saying stand down you fool we’ll see you in court. This is their response to Mike Lynch’s aggressive PR campaign to try to sway public opinion against HP to deflect the “crap” that surrounds his reputation. Here is the ...
Exclusive: Autonomy Missed Revenue by 90% – The Big, Bad Data – Crime of the Century
HP has confirmed to me that their $8.8 billion write-down related to Autonomy has a big time accounting scandal tied to it and Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch. According to a source, the Autonomy accounting scandal caused Autonomy to miss their first quarter numbers by 90% after HP paid $11 billion. What happened? When ...
SiliconANGLE Wikibon Release New Social Analytic Data on Software Defined Networking Vertical
SiliconANGLE and Wikibon are releasing our new Social Analytics Insights product called TrendConnect, an original realtime vertical market data service. Today, we are releasing our second report on Software Defined Networking or SDN. SDN Social Analytics – Key Findings Business value in the enterprise data center over the next decade will increasingly come from software ...
Mozilla is Free That’s Why It’s Awesome
Support Mozilla!! A Twitter friend of mine John Barbagallo @jbarbagallo just tweeted … “Mozilla ain’t in it for the money…which is why they’re awesome.” This on the heals of the recent release of the Mozilla annual financial report for 2011 as well as the annual “State of Mozilla” report by the organization’s Chair Mitchell Baker as reported today. Google ...
MongoDB 10gen Gets Endorsement & Strategic Investment from Intel Capital and Red Hat
Big Data is smoking hot. Today, 10gen the company behind the commercialization of MongoDB, announced a strategic investment from Intel Capital and Red Hat. MongoDB is part of the database wars we are seeing in the Big Data space. SiliconANGLE and Wikibon have released research that show that Mongo is growing more popular than Hadoop. ...
RED FLAG for Facebook – Groping for Business Model ??
Facebook is an amazing application. used by almost 1 billion people. It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of Facebook and also a critic of their lack of scalable business model. Regarding the business model question for consumer companies, I have said publicly many times that you can’t change the user experience to force a ...
Big Switch Turns On an Entire Industry, Emerges from Stealth with $40M in the Bank
Big Switch is an software-defined networking (SDN) startup with plenty of credentials. The company was co-founded in 2010 by Cisco veteran Kyle Forster and Guido Appenzeller, the Stanford researcher who led the development of the OpenFlow standard. Big Switch raised nearly $40 million in venture capital to date, from investors including Goldman Sachs, Redpoint Ventures, ...
Breaking Analysis: The New Start-Up Founders Playbook
Unlike the old era of entrepreneurship we live in a new moderner era where the frictionless environment of access to and sharing of information creates new levels of transparency. This dynamic is creating all kinds of new disruptions and efficiencies in the start-up eco-system. Let me share with you my opinion and observations. On shinning example is ...
Opinion: How Big Data Can Change the Game – Big Data Propels Obama to Re-election
As the election buzz about how Obama won the election in the most horific economic conditions any incubant has ever seen, many want to know why. America has yelling for years and Barack extracted that signal from the noise using big data to “listen”. He aligned his message to those who were speaking to him. ...