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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 ...
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. ...