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SAP VMware Cisco EMC (VCE) – Vblock SAP Excellence Center Lab Day in Silicon Valley
I will be visiting the SAP Customer Excellence Center in Silicon Valley to followup on the work that VMware, Cisco, and EMC are doing with their joint venture VCE or VCE Coalition (previously known as Acadia). I’ll be talking to executives and customers who are pushing the envelope in this new world of cloud and ...
Did Hacker Get NetApp Earnings Early? NetApp Earnings Mistake Causes Stock To Plummet on Unauthorized Access
NetApp stock was suspended on the Nasdaq after the earnings were released early by some unauthorized access. Normally companies release after the bell, but in NetApp’s case it was suspect because it was released early. It looks like a hacker might have accessed the companies web site to get the numbers early. If this is ...
$2 Billion Later, EMC Buys Isilon.
EMC is buying Isilon to continue it’s position as #1 in storage virtualization. Under terms of the agreement, EMC will pay $33.85 per share in cash in exchange for each share of Isilon for an aggregate purchase price of about $2.25 billion, net of Isilon’s existing cash balance. The boards of directors of both EMC ...
Avaya Goes With QLogic – Convergence Leader QLogic Continues String of Design Wins
QLogic, a leader in the new converged data center, is on a roll with performance leadership ,and now with more design wins. Today, QLogic is announcing a deal with Avaya to team up with the new converged switch on a chip called the “Bullet”. The QLogic Bullet—a converged networking switch-on-a-chip, continues to shatter through competitive ...
Sex Lies and HP
Written By Adam Lashinsky, Editor Fortune Magazine There’s more to the story of Jodie Fisher, Mark Hurd, and now Gloria Allred’s role in the HP case, than has been reported. But it would probably take a legal action on the order of a shareholder lawsuit to find out what we don’t already know. In the ...
The Mark Hurd, HP, & Jodie Fisher Drama Continues. He Lied To Board & Was Caught.
More drama is coming in on the Mark Hurd HP situation. Fortune and Wall Street Journal have good in depth pieces which validate my reports in August [see editor’s note at bottom. -mrh]. As I had reported in August the real reason that Mark Hurd was ousted was because of his sexual relationship with Jodie ...
Exclusive: Big Name Industry Pioneers & Experts Push FCC for Open Internet
A group of industry pioneers and leaders have come together to advance the Open Internet and computer business. The group filed a statement with the FCC as a response to a notice of proposed rulemaking entitled Further Inquiry into Two Under-developed Issues in the Open Internet Proceeding. Seth Johnson mobilized and collaborated with prominent technical ...
Blekko Slash Search – All Sizzle, No Steak
Blekko launched their much hyped about search engine this week. In classic super funded VC backed startup fashion they put tons of cash into their launch. It reminds me of the last search engine that claimed to be the next big thing in search. Remember Cuil? Cuil had the big splash hyping up their new ...
I’m Running for Twitter: My Randy Moss Style Press Conference (With Myself)
As we all know, tomorrow is election day here in America. So in the spirit of democracy, I have decided to campaign for the privilege of running Twitter. I will now present you with my platform, which will explain what Twitter needs to do to be successful. In the interest of expediency, I will do ...
Facebook to Make Mobile Announcement this Tuesday
Facebook just sent out a round of invites to a mysterious mobile announcement event they’ll be hosting on Tuesday morning, and we just got ours. The blogosphere seems to think it has something to do with the “long rumored Facebook phone,” as CNet’s Josh Lowensohn put it. The fact that Facebook has repeatedly and flatly ...