John Furrier
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Cloud & Mobile Data Explosion Changing Data Warehouse Market
We are seeing a major transformation in the cloud and data market that is forcing traditional enterprise infrastructures to rethink their “data strategies” or “data warehouse” plans. This “Big Data” explosion” is being driven by Internet giants such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, Bit.ly, LinkedIn, etc., and startups such as Cloudera, ClickFox, Membase, Karmasphere, and many ...
Funding the Enemy: NetFlix Funding Amazon To Be A VOD Competitor
Cloud computing is experiencing a meteoric rise in the IT sector, and every day we hear about larger players leveraging cloud infrastructure in place of traditional, conventional data center architectures. On that note, it recently came to our attention that NetFlix is spending in excess of $40M per year with Amazon S3 to host several ...
President Obama in Silicon Valley Meeting With Tech Leaders
LA Times is reporting the official list of attendees for the big Obama visit to california. According to a White House official: “The meeting is a part of our ongoing dialogue with the business community on how we can work together to win the future, strengthen our economy, support entrepreneurship, increasing our exports, and get ...
Oracle Cloud File System – Epic Cloudwashing – (Not In A Good Way)
Cloudwashing: (n) The act of making existing products sound like a cloud offering, even if it’s not. The hype is high, but cloud computing benefits are real. Know the difference. In an attempt to further associate itself with all things cloud, Oracle recently announced a “Cloud File System,” which the company claims will “deliver advanced ...
HP On M&A Spree For Big Data – First Up Vertica – All About Information Infrastructure Play – Data
HP is on a big M&A buying spree in Big Data or information infrastructure. According to my sources close to HP, they are going to go on a massive buying spree. Great news for startups in the data field which we created and highlighted on SiliconANGLE.tv at the O’Reilly Strata conference. This week we saw ...
Internet Bubble Again? Yes and No.
There is a massive bubble brewing and it is going to pop and pop BIG. This isn’t like the dot com bubble in fact much different. It’s camouflaged around the new emerging mega-franchises: Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, Groupon, among others. It’s validated by the big moves of the big industry incumbents Microsoft, EMC, Cisco, amongst others. ...
Ken Olsen Founder Digital Equipment Corp Passes Away
SiliconANGLE has confirmed that Ken Olsen, a pioneer in the computing industry, died yesterday in Indiana. According to the founder of the DEC Alumni group, he has been ill f or the past few months. In a post to DEC Alum the following message has been sent: Dear Digital Family of Friends: It is with ...
Data: The Next Industrial Revolution, with the Cube Live at Strata Conference [Coverage & Commentary]
Next week, Feb 2-3, 2011, SiliconANGLE.com and SiliconANGLE.tv will be broadcasting live at the Strata Conference organized by O’Reilly Media. Strata is a new conference from O’Reilly, focusing on the business and practice of data. According to the Strata site it’s about unprecedented computing power and connectivity are bringing new layers of experience to our ...
Next Big Cloud Trend: The Storage Cloud – Eyes on Nirvanix and a New Storage Tier.
I was reading the posts over on Wikibon today and noticed Dave Vellante (my Cube co-host on #theCube) posted a detailed analysis titled “The Truth About Enterprise Cloud Adoption”. My angle on this is about the hype of cloud moving to reality. Can the Cloud cross the chasm to mainstream production environments? Is Cloud Disruptive ...
VC Funds Below $250m Face Problems
There is a lot of talk about Angels, Super Angels and Venture Capital firms (VCs) these days who are playing the startup field with small sums of money coming from small funds. The majority of those VCs, now stuck in their self propagated ten-year mantra of capital efficiency, have seen average Limited Partner (LP) returns ...