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Industry Analysts Got It Wrong on VMware CEO Transition From Paul Maritz to Pat Gelsinger
I’ve been covering and watching the (mostly negative) commentary over the last couple of days about the change in leadership at VMware from other blogs and specifically the analyst sector. I really have to wonder, who are these so called experts? Do they even understand the markets and companies that they report on? SiliconANGLE’s team has ...
Paul Maritz Out as CEO – Pat Gelsinger in CEO of VMware – Video: What Pat Gelsinger Would Do At VMware
Update: Here is what I’ve confirmed so far: 1) Maritz was not ousted as CEO and this was his decision according to sources close to Maritz, and 2) Maritz will not be the CEO of any spin out. The story is now breaking that Paul Maritz is stepping down as CEO of VMware and Pat ...
Developers: The Hubris of Front End Developers
I ran into a good post that was talking about the hottest trend in tech developer world. Wooing front end developers. The post I am referring to was written by Allan Cheung a front end developer at Square. A colleague pointed me to an interesting article by a senior Yahoo front-end engineer. It goes through what companies ...
Startup Police Blotter: Betaworks Steals Digg for $500k – Digg Sells for Pennies on the Dollar
Betaworks should be on today’s police blotter under Grand Theft Startup. Wall Street Journal is reporting that the New York based incubator Betaworks has agreed to buy news-sharing website Digg in what is looking like a yard sale for $500,000. Here is what the WSJ reported: Under the deal, which Digg confirmed closed Thursday, Betaworks ...
Roger McNamee of Elevation Partners calls NASDAQ & Morgan Stanley Criminals in Facebook IPO Debacle
Roger McNamee, co-founder of Elevation Partners, appeared on Bloomberg TV’s “Money Moves” with Deirdre Bolton today and said that NASDAQ and Morgan Stanley conduct in Facebook IPO is “criminal” and exposed “extreme corruption.” Besides the smashing the Facebook IPO Roger actually has some great advice. Specifically, Mobile computing is changing the web in a big ...
Storage Startups Growing Fast Providing Gear for Cloud – Coraid and Nimble Standout
Want to find out about the future? Just meet the startups because they are inventing it right in front of our eyes. That is exactly what happend in the fast moving storage industry yesterday in Silicon Valley. I had a chance to meet with the top startups, Nimble storage and Coraid to name a few, ...
NoSQL Database Religion: Comparing Riak to Others
Comparing database approaches is a religious thing so I have been looking at the different uses cases and solutions available. I’ll be reporting more on them here over the next few months. In the meantime I found a great post by the folks at Basho worthy of a highlight here on DevOpsANGLE.com. On Basho’s wiki ...
Social Network for Developers – GitHub Raises Monster Series A Round Funding $100m
GitHub, a site that was built by and for coders, has finally broken down and took their first round of venture financing. The total raised for GitHub was $100 million from Andreessen Horowitz. This investment is the largest to data for the fast growing VC firm who continues its’ dominance of the Silicon Valley VC ...
Video Program: Impact of Big Data – Crossing the Chasm – Geoffrey Moore Keynote & Interview
Geoffrey Moore of Mohr Davidow Ventures and author of many books including Crossing the Chasm, Inside the Tornado, and Inside the Fault Line, delivered the keynote at the Hadoop Summit 2012. Hadoop is the main platform for big data and Hortonworks was the producer of this developer conference. Thanks to Hortonworks for putting on the ...
Google is Definitely in the Big Data Business and Will Be Big
At Google IO developer conference in San Francisco last month, Google introduced a slew of new products including Google Compute Engine. What wasn’t talked was Google’s big data play. Google is definitely in the Big Data business and Google will be the 800lb gorilla in the space. Google has two major things going for it. 1) Google has ...