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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 ...
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 ...