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Dell Tweets Deal to Deliver STaaS – Storage as a Service Offering
A saw a tweet from @DellServices last week that indicates that Dell is now offering cloud storage services as “Dell Cloud Storage with Nirvanix,” which it lists as a “Storage as a Services (STaaS) offering designed to enable the integration of Internet accessible storage into third party storage processes.” We’ve been following Nirvanix as they ...
Hunger Games, Olympics and Presidential Elections Thismoment.com is Demonstrating Social Media Works
Social Media is no joke. The recent Republican National Convention (RNC) is the latest example of how it works (see video at the end of this story). While many sceptics are down on social media startups these days, there is one that is kicking some serious butt right now – thismoment.com. As SiliconANGLE has ...
Breaking Analysis: Data Infrastructure – New Wikibon Research and Survey on Storage Integration with VMware
New research is out from the leading big data and infrastructure firm Wikibon.org that is validating a new trend is emerging that I have been following. I call it Data Infrastructure. Data infrastructure is about the new forces that are driving the crazy growth in applications and big data analytics which is redefining what used ...
Big Data Hadoop Death Match – Again But – Hadoop Era is Different from Linux Era
Matt Asay, VP of big data cloud startup called Nodeable, writes a post today titled “Becoming Red Hat: Cloudera & Hortonworks Big Data Death Match”. He grabbed that headline from a link to our content on free research site Wikibon.org -thx Matt. The argument of who contributes more to Hadoop was surfaced by Gigaom a ...
Breaking: Hadoop Community Votes To Upgrade Hadoop Core with YARN
The Hadoop community voted last night to upgrade the core Hadoop software by upgrading YARN to a full blown Apache sub-project for Hadoop along with HDFS and MapReduce. Hadoop YARN is basically MapReduce upgrade in an attempt to take Apache Hadoop beyond MapReduce for data-processing. According to Hortonworks cofounder Arun Murthy blog post, Apache Hadoop ...
Dear Mark Zuckerberg Open Letter Slam By Young and Up & Coming Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Dalton Caldwell
Dalton Caldwell @DaltonC is the founder of App.net, a social platform that is pivoting after Facebook offered to buy it or kill it. Dalton is the creator of imeem, a social music site that was acquired by MySpace. I first met Dalton seven years ago when he was one of my first guys that I did ...
Breaking Analysis: Google Acquires Wildfire – Who Says Social Media Bubble is Popping
Google announced that it is acquiring Wildfire a social media infrastructure provider. Google’s product manager Jason Miller says that social presence can complement all marketing campaigns—search, display, video, mobile, offline ads and more. Note: Conversation on @techmeme is taking place. Here is my Breaking Analysis. Google taking Wildfire off the table is a strategic move ...
Breaking Analysis: Tintri Bags $25 Million in Fresh Financing To Get Into Virtual Storage Fray
Storage startup Tintri just bagged another round of financing – $25 million round of fresh financing to expand it’s network attached storage appliance for virtualized environments. Tintri a was funded by Silicon Valley venture capital powerhouse New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and General Partners Pete Sonsini. The new round was led by Menlo Ventures and Lightspeed Partners. The ...
Breaking: Analysis: VMware Buys Nicira For $1.26B in Cash
Big news in what SiliconANGLE has been calling the biggest disruption in generations – Converged Infrastructure. VMware is buying privately held Nicira Inc for about $1.26B in cash to expand its network virtualization portfolio. The deal is expected to close in the second half of 2012. VMware just recently announced that Pat Gelsinger will ...
DeveloperANGLE: AllThingsHadoop Podcast with Cube Alum Arun Murthy on Hadoop
The allthingshadoop blog had a great podcast and blog post with Hortonworks cofounder Arun Murthy, a SiliconANGLE.tv Cube Alum. Here is the podcast: Episode #8 of the Podcast is a talk with Arun C. Murthy. Main areas they talked about — Hortonworks HDP1, the first release from Hortonworks, Apache Hadoop 2.0,NextGen MapReduce (YARN) and HDFS Federations. Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) ...