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End of An Era: Steve Jobs Resigns As Apple CEO – Tim Cook Steps in
Steve Jobs and Apple computer announced today that he is stepping down as CEO of Apple Computer. Here is Steve Jobs’ personal letter to his fans and friends. Apple Computer, the company Jobs with longtime friend Steve Wozniak changed the world of personal computing forever, laying the groundwork for Apple to become the innovative leader ...
Steve Jobs Quits As Apple CEO – The Steve Jobs Resignation Letter
Steve Jobs stepped down as Apple CEO on Wednesday. Here is his resignation letter. To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community: I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you ...
Google Android Hopes For Better Products – Oh Yeah We Have Nukes Too
Google announcing the acquisition of Motorola Mobilty was fun to watch. We covered the news here and here. Simply put: Google needs help for their Android position – help to the tune of $12 billion. They need to get their end product to be of consistently high quality, position for new markets, and have patents ...
FlashSoft – Storage is Sexy But Cache Is King
SiliconANGLE’s Kristen Nicole covered the launch of FlashSoft, a Sunnyvale California startup. At the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara I sat down with the FlashSoft founders Ted Sanford and Serge Shats to talk about their business and traction. FlashSoft has a bright future as as rising startup. FlashSoft has three things going for them: 1) ...
OpenSource News: Hortonworks COO Rob Bearden Joins Gluster Board of Directors
Gluster, a startup that provides scale-out, open source storage solutions, announced that open source leader Rob Bearden has joined the company’s board of directors. According to the Gluster’s press release, Bearden joins to support Gluster’s continued growth and offer guidance to help further develop its open source community. The goal of the appointment is for ...
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 ...