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Buidling the Modern Enterprise – Advice for CIO’s and IT Leaders for Rolling Out Convergered Infrastructure
We’ve been talking for some time on SiliconANGLE network of sites (see ServicesANGLE.com, CloudANGLE.com, and DevOpsANGLE.com) and on theCUBE on SiliconANGLE.tv about converged infrastructure. Our research team at Wikibon has been deeply researching it via their open source and crowdsourced portal at Wikibon.org. Top CIOs are going converged infrastructure in order to power the modern ...
#Fail or #Pivot – Citrix Doing the Open Source Two Step Dance – Aligns with Apache
Citrix has really stepped on themselves with Openstack and Cloud.com. According to my sources and many blog posts around the web, Citrix really seems to have shot themselves in the foot. Or did Apache just score a coup. I am hearing from insiders that Citrix is a mess (in PR but strong in the product ...
Another Executive Shakeup for Hewlett-Packard, Loses Labs Head & Senior Vice President Prith Banerjee
Executive shakeups have become quite frequent at Hewlett-Packard, the latest to leave being Prith Banerjee, the senior vice president who led its research and development organization – HP Labs. Banerjee’s last day is April 15, for a company outside the U.S. While the hunt is on for another HP Labs executive, Chandrakant Patel, a 25-year old ...
Millennial Media Prices Initial Public Offering – Shares Trading Tomorrow Morning
Moments ago, we just received the following press release (my comments below): Millennial Media, Inc. (NYSE: MM) announced today the pricing of its initial public offering of 10.2 million shares of common stock at a price to the public of $13 per share. The shares are expected to begin trading on the New York Stock ...
HP Software Upgrades Developer Platform and Tools – Mobile ANGLE is Perfecto
HP today announced new Application Transformation solutions that is aimed at the growing mobile-based enterprise applications developer market for the corporate enterprise. We the surge of cloud, mobile, and social infrastructure the developer equations is changing. HP has upgraded their software app development products to focus on smartphones and mobile applications. This is changingthe way enterprises create ...
Cisco’s New Startup Coming While Hot Startup is Already Out There – VCE Quietly Smoking the Competition
Quinten Hardy of the NY Times has a good story here for Cisco about an internal startup that three of Cisco’s top engineers have conceived to create a new type of network switch for data centers. The product they are discussing, called Insiemi, would be designed to work in high-end computer centers that use “software-defined networking.” ...
Exclusive: CEO of HP’s Big Data Company Vertica Chris Lynch Resigns – Pledges Support to Startups
Chris Lynch, the CEO of Vertica a company he led in it’s acquisition to HP for $350+ million, has resigned as head of HP’s Vertica division effective immediately, SiliconANGLE has learned. A source close to the company indicates that Lynch informed the Vertica staff of his intentions to leave the company at an emotional private ...
Google Cloud Storage Review – Cloud Middlemen Flock to New Service
Recently, a number of cloud gateway startups ranging from StorSimple, TwinStrata and Panzura pledged their allegiance to Google’s cloud storage offering to try and diversify the clouds they support. As of this writing Google has not updated its blog or issued an announcement talking about its cloud storage service, the only way anyone heard any ...
Hipster and Fake Entrepreneurs and VCs – Time For Real Business Not Bullshit
Venture capitalist Seth Levine strikes a cord that is so relevant right now. He penned a blog post called “I’m getting Sick of this Bullshit”. I am grabbing this post by venture capitalist Seth Levin and posting it in it’s full form to mark a significant time in history – link is here so go ...
All You Need To Know About Facebook Page Timeline + Premium Ads
{Guest post from Jonathan Eccles, Facebook technical lead at thismoment.com, the leading social brand management infrastructure company.} Today’s fMC, or Facebook Marketing Conference, yielded a motherload of Facebook product announcements representing the natural evolution of concepts introduced at last year’s f8. This time, the audience was full not of coders and geeks, but rather agencies ...