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Mass Governor Creates Big Data Initiative Announces Supports for R&D and Big Data Incubator HackReduce
Governor Deval Patrick today announced the creation of the Massachusetts Big Data Initiative, a number of steps and initiatives that will expand Massachusetts’ position as a world leader in the rapidly expanding Big Data sector. Massachusetts houses some of the biggest industries that can leverage so called “big data” – biotech, information technology, healthcare, academic, ...
Hbase Conference HbaseCon.com in SF – The Real Time Value Proposition
As SiliconANGLE is on the ground in Vegas covering #emcworld 2012 we will also be covering the historic first Hbase Conference in SF. This week introduces the first ever Hbase conference (Hbasecon.com) in SF and SiliconANGLE will be covering it live with a live broadcast of theCUBE. At the Hbasecon there will be all the ...
Facebook IPO Mania – Intoxicating Yet Elusive – Similar to the Netscape Moment for Silicon Valley; Bubble? No; Future Yes!
On the eve of the Facebook IPO which will be the largest in technology IPO history. Living in Palo Alto, California I can’t help feel proud and excited about the big day tomorrow. I love when an entrepreneurial venture hits the big time. For Facebook’s founders, early employees, and investors it’s a massive pay day. ...
Changes in the East Coast VC Scene – Atlas Ventures Adopting Andreessen Horowitz Playbook With Chris Lynch Hire
Venture Capital has been under massive change over the past 5 years. We’ve seen the emergence of new “products” from angel, super angel, to new institutional firms like Andreessen Horowitz. Andreessen Horowitz business model is the “gold standard” in technology investing. Andreessen in a short time has become the dominate venture capital firm on the ...
AppSense Upgrades Virtualization Platform – Quietly Becoming Big Player In Tech Field
AppSense is quietly becoming a big player in the enterprise tech community. They have been profitable from the start with year after year growth. In 2011 AppSense locked up a cool $75 million from Goldman Sachs – the second largest venture raise they’ve delivered to a company besides Facebook – to further drive global expansion ...
Vinod Khosla VC Firm Invests In Cloud Storage Firm Nirvanix – What SUN would be if around today.
Legendary investor Vinod Khosla’s VC arm—Khosla Ventures—revealed today that it led a Series C investment in hot enterprise cloud storage startup Nirvanix. Lots of coverage on Techcrunch, Venturebeat, SearchTechTarget, DatacenterKnowledge, and Gigaom. {editors note: SiliconANGLE has been covering Nirvanix (and other soon to be hot startups) and it’s great to see the mainstream traction. ...
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 ...
