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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 ...
Social Gold Rush and Why Global Brands Need to be Ready- Pinterest is only the beginning
{Guest Post: John Bara, CMO, of Thismoment.com, the leading social marketing firms for top brands.} Palo Alto these days definitely has the aura of a gold rush. After the slowdown of the past few years, there is a noticeable uptick in the economy and of course the buzz around Facebook and the social gold rush ...
Nirvanix Takes on HDD Crisis with Global Cloud Services
Responding to the ongoing HDD shortage caused by the massive floods in Thailand—which is causing customers to pay top dollar for disk storage systems and face extended wait times while HDD manufacturers reap the profits—hypergrowth cloud storage startup Nirvanix today announced that its fully armed and ready to address the HDD crisis by helping customers ...
Big Data Is PC-Like Revolution – Biggest Shift In Decades
I was recently asked about why I’m so into big data. As SiliconANGLE prepares to do our live SiliconANGLE.tv show at #stratconf with The CUBE, I wanted to share a post that I made on Google + this morning in response to this article on quantum computing. Data is the biggest thing to hit the ...
HP LeftHand Exec Bails for Nirvanix Cloud
Fast growing cloud storage startup Nirvanix this morning announced that Dave Barr, HP’s ace engineering director for the LeftHand Storage Group—a $350M business—had left the company to join Nirvanix. This is a very interesting move as it marks the second HP storage exec to leave the company in the past 2 weeks. The first departure ...
