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Cofounder of Reddit and Internet Freedom Fighter Commits Suicide After Hacking MIT – The Net Mourns
Aaron Swartz, co-founder of Reddit and online activist, hangs himself in New York City last night. At the moment the Internet community is having a virtual wake. Aaron was a young star in the tech community who was known for doing the right things for good not money. Apparently on some bogus government shakedown by ...
Big Data Alert: Hadoop Summit 2013 Registration Now Opens
Hadoop Summit 2013 (hadoopsummit.org) registration now open. This year Hadoop Summit will continue to focus on the technology innovation driving the business of Big Data. SiliconANGLE Wikibon will be live streaming again with theCUBE. Here are the videos from Hadoop Summit 2012 – lots of great conversations from the Hadoop ecosystem thought leaders – http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5ABFCADFA347D8E3 ...
IBM Services Chief Steps Down As Rivalries Ramp Up
Mike Daniels, an executive who played a prominent role in IBM’s services strategy and came very close to becoming the company’s CEO in 2011, has left the company. The Register reports that he has retired. Daniels, who joined Big Blue in the 70s’ after earning his bachelor’s degree in political science, climbed up the corporate ladder ...
ActiveVideo Networks CloudTV – Next Gen TV User Experience? Cloud & Social Going CloudTV
With all the buzz about social TV and cloud based Software-led Infrastrcture (SLI), it’s a no brainer that TV is going to the cloud. Just look at Netflix. A startup is talking next generation TV in the cloud. The company is ActiveVideo Networks. They have announced the launch of its “CloudTV Access™’ developer program, an ...
DataCenterANGLE: Data Center Availability & Safety – Future Requirements
{Guest Post: This is a guest post by datacenter executive Mark Thiele, founder of Datacenterpulse.org and EVP of Switch. Mark is a practitioner and thought leader in the datacenter and cloud marketplace.} Is it safe to build a data center anywhere along the coast? Can you really protect the availability or accessibility of your systems in ...
Samsung Comes To Silicon Valley Big Time
Samsung is coming to Silicon Valley in a big way to try to stay a leader in the consumer electronics game. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, is investing in Silicon Valley by expanding their existing R&D centers and establishing new innovation centers in the Bay Area. Samsung has announced an incubator in Palo Alto recently to ...
Breaking Analysis: Software Defined Networking OpenFlow is positioned to succeed in 2013
By Steve Noble, Principle of Router Analysis We open this final post on the State of OpenFlow 2012 testing with a very specific statement: OpenFlow is positioned to succeed in 2013. The final report, which should be out early to mid January will contain specific information backing this statement past what we talk about here. The ...
Software defined Datacenter Models Threaten Oracle’s Revenue Model
SiliconANGLE has been talking about a new trend called Software-led Infrastructure, also know as software-defined datacenter. It’s now a formal research and editorial topic at SiliconANGLE and Wikibon.org. Software-led Infrastructure is a new phenom that is taking the notion of converged infrastrastructure and modernizing it to add new technologies like flash and new virtualized software ...
Is OpenFlow Where It Needs To Be for 2013?
{Guest Post: This is a guest post written by Steven Noble of Router Analysis (routeranalysis.com). Steven is the main author and contributor to both the Router Analysis and SDN Testing Websites I work very hard to maintain my independence from network equipment manufacturers. This includes software vendors.”} My research firm Router Analysis, Inc. has spent ...
New School VC Costanoa Venture Capital Launches $100 Million Funded Focused on Big Data and Disruption in the Enterprise
Experienced venture capitalist turned venture entrepreneur Greg Sands formally launches Costanoa Venture Capital. Costanoa is a new $100m venture capital fund focused on the early stage of big data and emerging disruptive startups focused on the new modern infrastructure and services. Greg Sands has been building this out for the past year stepping out of a ...