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Juniper Networks Disappoints – Margins Under Pressure
Juniper Networks disappointed the market yesterday. Their stock fell as much as 9.3 percent in late trading after they announced their 1st qtr earnings. According to Businessweek report yesterday, Juniper is losing customers fast to Juniper. “The disappointment continues at Juniper,” Makris said in an interview. The New York-based analyst has a “neutral” rating on ...
Why Networks Matter in Big Data and Cloud
{Guest Post from Raj Kanaya, CEO of Infineta.} We live in an age during which information has become a key resource. Collectively, we have spent the last two decades digitizing and storing vast volumes of data, the amount of which is now estimated to total 1.8 zettabytes (1.8 trillion gigabytes) a 9x jump in just ...
Amazon Cuts Out the Middleman: Launches its Own Cloud Storage Gateway
In a move that was expected by some and feared by others, Amazon today announced its own AWS Storage Gateway, which immediately calls into question the long-term validity of the business models for standalone cloud gateway vendors. Following the implosion of Cirtas in April of last year, cloud gateway vendors have basically positioned themselves as ...
Breaking News: Mark Lewis Head of EMC Ventures and Strategy Quits EMC Pat Gelsinger Takes Over
I have confirmed that Mark Lewis, a long-time EMC executive has left the company. Mark Lewis was running EMC Ventures in Palo Alto and has stepped down to pursue an operating role at another company but not EMC according to a source at EMC. EMC Ventures has been on fire on the west coast with ...
Yahoo Founder Jerry Yang Quits Yahoo – End of An Era Again
Jerry Yang stepped down from the board of Yahoo and severed all ties with Yahoo the company that he founded. As the young Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg rises taller everyday, the legend Jerry Yang sails into the sunset. This must be painful for Jerry since Yahoo could have bought Facebook for $700m only a few ...
Millennial Media Overtakes Apple in Mobile Ad Sales
Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple has lost the #2 market position in mobile ad sales to Millennial Media – the largest independent and now #2 in mobile ad sales. Bloomberg is also reporting the story. Last year according to IDC data, Apple shared the top spot in the mobile display ad market with ...
Breaking: HP to Open Source WebOS – Code Base and Continued Investment – A Good Move
HP CEO Meg Whitman is announcing that HP has officially open sourced WebOS. HP will contribute all the WebOS code base, Enyo framework, and continued investment into the WebOS technology platform. HP still has to make a decision on which approach to take. The Sun Microsystem approach (top down – corporate focused) or that of ...
Marc Andreessen and Andreessen Horowitz Deny Any Involvement In Yahoo Takeover
Here is the statement from Marc Andreessen on the speculation that he was in the running to take over the operating role of Yahoo. From Marc Andreessen, co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz: Over the last several weeks, there have been erroneous reports in the press that my partner Jeff Jordan and/or I might ...
IBM Buys Cloud Analytics Firm, Nirvanix’ Cloud Gets “Immortalized”
Big moves continue to be made in the fast growing cloud space—a market projected to be over $20B in four years. Just this morning IBM announced that it’s spending $440M to acquire cloud-based analytics software maker DemandTech. The acquisition of DemandTec will extend IBM’s Smarter Commerce initiative by adding cloud-based price, promotion and other merchandising ...
Cloud Storage is Hot; HP Bundles Box.net (Gigabyte scale) and Nirvanix Takes Hybrid Clouds to Hawaii (Petabyte scale)
Cloud Storage is hot and we are seeing big news today with HP and Nirvanix. These two announcements Box and Nirvanix highlight the contrast between two cloud storage startups Box (consumer) and Nirvanix (enterprise) cloud storage — the difference is one is at gigabyte-scale (Box.net) and other is at petabyte-scale (Nirvanix). On the high end ...