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Big Data Market $50 Billion by 2017 – HP Vertica comes out #1 – According to Wikibon Research
Want to know who is making money in Big Data. Want to know Market Size? Now a report just released by research firm Wikibon details it all. Wikibon.org, the leader in big data, cloud, and converged infrastructure research, just put out the first ever research report on the size of the Big Data market with ...
Guest Post: Unshackling Your Data-driven Web Apps
Written by Ines Sombra, Data Engineer, Engine Yard It is so easy to start a fight. Ask your friends whose legacy is more timeless: the Beatles or the Rolling Stones. If you’re watching a soccer game, declare that Cristiano Ronaldo is highly overrated. Or, if you’re at a database conference, tell those relational database types that ...
Micron Technology CEO Steve Appleton 51 Dies In Tragic Plane Crash
Steve Appleton, the chairman and CEO of Micron Technology died today in a small plane crash. Appleton, a professional stunt plane pilot and former motocross racer, was the only one in the plane when it crashed. Micron Technology is a global maker of DRAM, NAND and NOR flash memory. The company’s stock (MU) which trades ...
Super Bowl 2012 or Social Bowl 2012? Social Means Business for the World’s Largest Brands.
Super Bowl time is here! Is it a football game or a social event? Brady or Manning? Pats or Giants? Who will win? Some people say who cares…I’m all about the party and the Super Bowl ads. Clearly, large global brands have decided that social means business, and the Super Bowl will become the Social ...
Facebook IPO is Filed – It’s Official – Billions in Revenue and Profit
Facebook has filed for it’s initial public offering – link to S1 here. Facebook filing shows massive revenue in 2011 of $3 billion with net income of $1 billion. At the end of 2011 they had just a hair under $4 billion in the bank. Not too shabby for Facebook. See my coverage here and ...
Facebook Filing Tomorrow for $5 Billion IPO not $10 Billion – Morgan Stanley Leads IPO
Facebook is expected to file their IPO paperwork tomorrow with authorities for a $5 billion initial public offering. The social network founded by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004, has chosen Morgan Stanley as the lead underwriter with four others playing a role. Others include Goldman Sacks, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, and JP Morgan. Facebook ...
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 ...
