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Exclusive: Yahoo HortonWorks Funding Details $20m Raise @ $200m Valuation – EMC, NetApp Pass, Benchmark Steps in
Yahoo’s core Hadoop contributors have left the company to form their own startup called HortonWorks. HortonWorks has big time financing and support from Benchmark, and the company will be headed by be ex-Yahoo engineer manager Eric Baldeschwieler. According to my sources HortonWorks raised around $2o million at a very high valuation of over $200 million. ...
Addressing the Challenges of Enterprise Clouds #structureconf with Pete Malcolm, Val Bercovici, and Chris Weitz
In a discussion about the challenges of the enterprise cloud Pete Malcolm, Abiquo, CEO, Val Bercovici, NetApp, Cloud Czar, and Chris Weitz, Deloitte, Director of Tech Strategy & Architecture attack the issues. Here are the live blogging notes from Gigaom Structure 2011. This was most interesting panel of event so far. It was put together ...
Live Blogging Future of Cloud Panel – Michael Skok, Dries Buytaert, John Dillon,Martin Mickos, Eucalyptus, and Lew Moorman #structureconf
SiliconANGLE.com live blogged The Future of Cloud panel featuring Michael Skok, North Bridge Venture Partners, Dries Buytaert, CTO, Acquia, John Dillon, Engine Yard, CEO, Martin Mickos, Eucalyptus, CEO, and Lew Moorman, CSO and President Rackspace Cloud, Rackspace. Here are the notes from the panel. For continuous coverage on all the cloud angles go to SiliconANGLE.com. ...
Live Blogging Om Malik Interview with VMware CEO Paul Maritz
Legendary blogger turned venture capitalist Om Malik interviews VMware CEO Paul Maritz at the GigaOm Structure 2011 event. Below are the notes and commentary from Paul Maritz interview summarized in pre-tweet form. SiliconANGLE.tv will be covering VMworld this summer in Vegas so anytime Paul Maritz speaks we listen. As a side note he gave a ...
Live Blogging Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO, Amazon – The State of the Cloud Address
Dr. Werner Vogels gives his state of the cloud speech at GigaOm’s Structure 2011 conference. Rather than tweet all content on the Twitter stream, I’ve added the live blogging notes. Notes: Cloud has nothing to do with technology, some tech pieces, but cloud is all defined by its benefits Has to lower costs, more importantly ...
Live Blogging Simon Crosby – The Tale of Two Clouds: Private & Mobile
SiliconANGLE‘s live blogging coverage at GigaOm Structure 2011 of the cloud presentation by Simon Crosby’s where the Citrix executive and cloud entrepreneur announced that he is leaving Citrix to form a new startup called Bromium. Summary. This was a typical Crosby presentation with a consistent multi-cloud message from Synergy, anti-VMware push, and also some security/trust ...
Is Mellanox Oracle’s Networking B*tch?
I was reading the recent QLogic news covered by SiliconANGLE today titled– QLogic Grows InfiniBand Reach, Teams with NNS. Our partner Wikibon.org has the detailed analysis of the QLogic news and the events at the International Supercomputer Conference (ISC’11) in Germany. Link to ISC’11 event is here. However, I had a different angle on the ...
HP Discover 2011: All Steak, No Sizzle
Editor’s Note: this piece was written by Dave Cahill, an analyst from Diligence Technology Advisors. Cahill was a regular at theCube during our HP Discover 2011 coverage (see more at SiliconAngle.tv). There is meat here. There is a story here. Someone just forgot to tell HP to convey this message at Discover. Sure there is ...
“It is about cloud or die”…HP’s Patrick Harr on All Things Cloud
{Editors note: This post written by David Cahill, President of Dilligence Technology Advisors and analyst at Wikibon.org}. No shortage of opinions and perspective from Patrick Harr’s keynote (Winning with HP’s hybrid delivery strategy) at HP Discover 2011 in Las Vegas. Patrick is Global VP of Enterprise Cloud Solutions at HP. Here are the most interesting takeaways ...
EMC World Live Coverage at EMC World 2011 in Las Vegas – theCube Summer Tour 11
The SiliconANGLE and Wikibon Cube Summer Tour 2011 kicks off next week starting Monday at EMC World 2011. Dave Vellante and I will be hosting live with commentary, analysis, opinion, and guest interviews starting Monday at 9:30am on SiliconANGLE.tv. We have 40 guest scheduled from 15 companies all prepared to come inside theCube to share ...