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Wall Street ANGLE FalconStor Earnings Q1 Summary & Notes
FalconStor, a company that SiliconANGLE has been covering since VMworld 2011, announced their earnings. FalconStor reported Q1 FY11 results after the close yesterday. Amidst substantial restructuring of North American sales team and decline of OEM revenues (-37% y/y), the company was able to grow non-OEM revenue +31% y/y in Q1 2011. Going forward non-OEM revenue ...
Wall Street ANGLE – Citrix Systems Earnings – Summary and Notes
Citrix Synergy is around the corner so we are excited about Citrix these days here at SiliconANGLE.com, Wikibon.org, and the new stealth team at our Wall Street ANGLE. SiliconANGLE has initiated coverage on Citrix last quarter and now others are jumping on the bandwagon. Why? Citrix is booming. Growth in the “new Internet” has created ...
Cloud M&A Hot: CenturyLink Buys Savvis for $2.5 Billion
Cloud M&A is hot, and the cloud computing sector is booming. We have another big acqusition. CenturyLink this morning agreed to buy Savvis for $40 a share which puts the deal valued at $2.5 billion. Savvis has been a hot buyout target. I know folks at the company and they were deep in cloud infrastructure ...
Deduping @SteveDupe on Fusion-io: Steve Duplessie Gets Blown Off
Steve Duplessie, founder of Enterprise Storage Group (ESG), wrote a scathing negative post about why he’s bearish on Fusion-io. Steve Duplessie is a smart and respected entrepreneur who has built a great business off of a storage-centric consulting practice circa 1999. When I read his post I fell off my chair and said “wow he’s ...
EMC Earnings Summary: Up 28% – The Wall Street ANGLE
EMC just had their first quarter earnings call, with earnings rising 28%. International sales is attributed for the data storage company’s rise in profit. EMC’s customers seem happy with the products, boosting spending. A string of acquisitions has also flushed investors with reassurance. The most relevant business, technology and product takeaways from EMC earnings: Good ...
Breaking News: Dark Clouds – Startup Cirtas Systems Cutting Staff by 75% in Major Pivot
I am getting reports that cloud startup Cirtas is cutting almost 75% of their company in what appears to be a major pivot. According to a tweet by Cirtas employee Dave Graham, he tweeted the following: “well, the waiting is over. as of 3pm TODAY, i, along with 20 others are no longer employed by ...
Preparing for IPO Jive Software Buys Startup Proximal Labs – Forms Big Data Dream Team
On the heals of the news that Cloudera is extending their lead in Hadoop, a Cloudera Labs startup gets bought by pre-IPO startup Jive Software. Jive Software, located in Palo Alto California, is announcing a big data technology acquisition of unknown startup Proximal Labs. Proximal Labs was founded by David Gutelius, Lance Riedel, and Nigel ...
Nirvanix Takes the Cloud to Hollywood
Cloud adoption keeps spreading from industry to industry. Just as we wrapped SNW with the Flash Cube last week in Santa Clara—where cloud was an increasingly hot topic of discussion—today we turned our attention to the annual NAB Show in Vegas, where “cloud storage” kicked off the show in high gear. Nirvanix, which has been ...
The Wall Street Angle – Watch Our Wall Street Journal – Week in Review
After looking at the demographics of our audience, the types of content sharing, it’s social distribution, and finally based upon requests from our audience, I am introducing an experiment here at SiliconANGLE called the Wall Street Angle or (WSA). This will be a new focus and Angle section for us. Since this is new we’ll ...
Facebook Building Their Own DataCenter – Open Source & Programmable Infrastructure
Facebook announced that they are building their own datacenter and hardware products from the ground up. This includes building their own servers, storage, and infrastructure that complements their “home grown” approach to their software. Facebook is now scaling around 600 million users which includes over 100 million mobile users. This move is a notice to ...