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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 ...
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 ...