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Cisco: Undervalued and on the Move Again on the Strength of the Core Data Center Business
At the peak of the dot.com boom Cisco became the world’s most valuable company at roughly $550B. Investors couldn’t get enough Cisco and drove its market cap skyward to 5X where it is today– just under $100B as of this writing. Subsequent to that bubble bursting, enterprise tech has been a mixed bag with stalwarts ...
Nirvanix Wins Massive 8 Petabyte Private Cloud Deal from USC – Validates Cloud Storage
The last 30 days for Nirvanix have been on fire—first the big-scale OEM deal with IBM Global Services, then the announcement that Cerner Healthcare was deploying a 3 petabyte private cloud and today news hits that the University of Southern California (Go Pac 12) has shifted 8 Petabytes of unstructured data to a Nirvanix private ...
Thoughts On Google Atmosphere – CIO ANGLE – SalesForce.com Should Be Scared Not Facebook
Thoughts from Atmosphere at Google – +SiliconANGLE Google Atmosphere event at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California is the company’s big enterprise CIO event. This is the event where Google parades out their top executives and promotes that they indeed know what they are talking about in the enterprise. Google is a growing enterprise vendor ...
Google Offering 24×7 Support for Enterprise Business Customers
Google announced today at Atmosphere, the CIO summit, 24×7 support for their business customers. Amit Singh announced the deal while promoting the Google success in the enterprise. Google’s mission is all about cloud, mobile, and social and they want to bring the mobile social cloud to all enterprises says Amit Singh. Core areas for Google ...
Hadoop World 2011 NYC – Live In Depth Coverage SiliconANGLE.tv #theCUBE
SiliconANGLE.com and Wikibon.org are back for year 2 at Hadoop World 2011 to provide in-depth live video coverage of sold out Hadoop World 2011. SiliconANGLE.com and Wikibon.org present theCUBE – the live HD studio that creates conversations shared by millions. SiliconANGLE.com and Wikibon.org provide team coverage of the leading technology events worldwide, and will be ...
HP Announces Moonshot A New Low Energy Server Technology – Shift to Mobile Cloud Architecture
HP is announcing today at HP Labs a major innovation in the server technology called “Moonshot,” a big shift from the x86 architecture to what HP calls “Extreme Scale Computing.” The Moonshot announcement is featuring an ARM-based low energy server technology promoting advances in hyperscale. The Moonshot project is an outgrowth of HP Labs research ...
Yes!! Good Move – HP Keeping PC Division
HP announced in a statement today that they are keeping the PC Division. See full release below. I was livid and jumping up and down on my blog saying that HP was crazy for getting rid of the PC division. HP is #1 in PC business which will morph into smartphones, tablets, future laptops, etc. ...
Processor Wars – Intel Under Seige From ARM – Even Steve Jobs Chose ARM over Intel
There is a massive chip war going on right now between the market leader Intel verses upstart ARM Holdings. ARM today disclosed technical details of its new ARMv8 architecture, the first ARM architecture to include a 64-bit instruction set. The ARM architecture is unique in its ability to span the full range of electronic devices ...
Wall Street Journal Reporting YouTube Close To Launching Channels
According to the Wall Street Journal, Google is expected to announce a big push beyond amatueur videos and into big entertainment. YouTube is already there just today they live streamed Cold Play. It’s about time that YouTube is taking over media. WSJ says that as early as next week that YouTube has signed a slew ...
SAP Stock Up On Great Business Results – Impressive Turnaround for Co-CEOs McDermott and Snabe
SAP announced great financial results with their official Q3 2011 earnings this morning. They had a very strong quarter. SAP continues to grow the core business – Business Suite, Business Analytics – with new innovations around In-memory (HANA), Mobility and Cloud driving further gains and positively impacting their financial performance. SAP saw double digit growth ...