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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 ...
News Analysis: Oracle Ruling Opens Up Monopolistic Practices By Software Vendors
Ray Wang at Consellation Research shares his analysis on the Oracle vs UsedSoft. The surprise July 3rd, 2012 judgment by the Court of Justice of the European Union for UsedSoft GmbH v Oracle International Corp rules that “An author of software cannot oppose the resale of his ‘used’ licenses allowing the use of his programs ...
What is Higgs Boson? A Breakthrough in Physics and Science – The Physics Nerd Holy Grail Found
In the science and physics world “The Holy Grail” was found today July 4th. The Higgs Boson The science world is a buzz over the discovery from CERN, Europe’s main particle-physics lab, of what is called the “missing piece” or element of the Standard Model of partical physics called the Higgs Boson. It’s July 4th and the ...
Apple iPad Mini Coming Soon – Apple #Winning Against the Awesome Android Nexus 7 Tablet
According to a Bloomberg report, Apple is planning on putting out a smaller iPad called the iPad Mini that will compete with the new Nexus Tablet 7 inch tablet. Which has been getting great reviews (see review here). The new iPad Mini as reported by Bloomberg is directly attacking the new Android 7-inch tablet made ...
The Father of SpringSource Rod Johnson Quits VMware
Rod Johnson is leaving VMware. Rod is known as the father of Spring and is also a SiliconANGLE.tv theCUBE alum. Rod wrote his goodbye in a blog post on springsource.org (full post embedded below). I had the pleasure to rattle sabers with Rod at VMworld 2010. We had a great Cube Conversation that passes the ...
Video: Steve Jobs on Failure – Most People Never Ask For Help
As an entrepreneur I’ve been most successful when I ask for help and not being afraid to fail. Best startup advice – create action!! Watch this footage of Steve Jobs: Key takeaway: don’t be afraid to get help and to be prepared to fail. Another cool video where Steve gets his juices flowing on his ...