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SaaS or PaaS Entrepreneurs Need Business Model Help – Look Here
I found a great post today that might help entrepreneurs and business line managers figure out how to roll with SaaS or PaaS business models. Link: Multi-axis Pricing: a key tool for increasing SaaS revenue Written by David Skok, David is a five time serial entrepreneur turned VC, at Matrix Partners. Scalable pricing is a ...
Announcing Big Data Event Oct 27th Santa Clara – Come Join Me & My Friends
I am moderating a Big Data event on October 27th hosted by ACG Silicon Valley. Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) is the global community for middle market M&A dealmakers and business leaders focused on driving growth. The event will be at the EMC office in Santa Clara. Big Data: Path to Profit An exponentially increasing ...
Calm Down People Apple Computer’s Business is Fine – I Predict Blowout Quarter
Apple reported earnings of all-time record Mac and iPad sales. It is the highest September quarter revenue and earnings ever and stock is getting hammered. Why? Stock is getting hammered because Apple missed earnings and iPhone sales were soft as consumers anticipated for the iPhone 5 which turned out to be the iPhone 4S. This ...
Juniper Networks Disappoints Barely Meets Expectations As Networking Market Changes
Juniper Networks announced their earnings today. Network equipment maker Juniper Networks Inc posted a quarterly profit in line with market estimates but forecast fourth-quarter results largely below analysts’ expectations amid uncertain customer spending. The company said it sees fourth-quarter adjusted earnings of 32-36 cents a share on revenue of $1.16-$1.22 billion. Bad news: Juniper is ...
Cloud Storage Startup Leaders – Box.net for Consumer Nirvanix for Enterprise – Proof in the Customer Uptake
We just covered the big IBM cloud announcement yesterday and now more action in cloud storage. In recent months we’ve heard enterprise storage companies rachet up its claims of being a enterprise cloud storage player. These companies are claiming that they are delivering enterprise cloud storage to Fortune 500 companies. We are not seeing that ...
IBM Puts Amazon, Google On Notice with Nirvanix OEM Partnership – Cloud Leadership Is About Scale Advantage
UPDATE: A Google engineer posted by mistake an internal note to his public Google + account. He slams Google + and Amazon. – Link is here IBM is making their own moves in cloud and they are big moves – see news story here. Yesterday, IBM announced that they are acquiring Platform Computing, a privately ...
IBM Does Big Deal With Startup Nirvanix – IBM Announces Platform as a Service – SmartCloud Service – Huge Deal For Startup Nirvanix
On the heals of the massive Box.net funding and turn down of $600 million buy out from Citrix, IBM is making their own big moves with one of the fastest growing cloud startups: Nirvanix. IBM is launching a platform is a service called SmartCloud Service by inking a 5 year deal with fast growing cloud ...
Confirmed: Juniper Networks Lays Off – At Least 300 Gone Amidst Restructuring it’s 3% not 4% of Workforce
Update: Juniper did confirm layoffs (see update below). According to Forbes story last week by Eric Savitz titled Juniper: Will Slowing Business Trigger Big Layoffs? Juniper is going to layoff a portion of its staff. The Forbes story reports that Juniper’s performance is hurting enough to spark layoff speculation. According to a source inside Juniper, ...
Message to Meg Whitman: How to Boost Public Confidence in HP in 3 Strategic Steps; Extra Credit: Punch Oracle in the Face
Dear Meg (and Ray Lane), I wanted to share my near-term recommendations for HP to quickly re-establish its credibility with investors, analysts and large enterprise customers: 1) Fix The Autonomy Deal: First and foremost, activate the termination clause for the recently announced abomination of an acquisition known as Autonomy. I know that it’s pretty much ...
Facebook F8 – Welcome to the New LinkedFaceTweet+
[This is a guest post by Vanessa Camones, CEO and Founder of theMIX agency, a digital marketing consulting agency. get updates via her FB timeline or tweet @vanessacamones]- JF On the first day of Facebook’s f8 conference in San Francisco, the world’s biggest social network presented a nonstop barrage of new features on top of ...