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EMC Exec and Former Data Domain CEO Frank Slootman Leaves to Join Greylock
Frank Slootman, the former chief executive of Data Domain, is joining venture firm Greylock partners. It is a somewhat incestuous move, since Greylock backed Data Domain, which was purchased by EMC for $2.4 billion in 2009. Fifteen-year EMC staffer William “BJ” Jenkins replaces Slootman heading up the BRS team. EMC says that Slootman will stay ...
EMC Announcement About Breaking Records – Performance and Management.
We’re headed to London next week to report on, amongst other things, this mystery announcement EMC has been teasing out the last couple of weeks. I’d been personally hearing murmurs that “something big” was coming down the pike for at least two or three weeks – the speculation in the blogosphere has been ratcheting up ...
Power of Data – It’s Here – Groupon Cloudera and EMC Are Showing The Way To The New World
Reid Hoffman and James Slavet wrote a guest post on AOL Techcrunch today rationalizing their very late stage investment in Groupon. Their post is a attempting to be a justification and self promotion of their involvement in Groupon. What was striking to me about the post was the focus on opportunity of data not normal ...
iPhone 4 AntennaGate Head To Verizon – Verizon iPhone Will Have Issues
The much anticipated iPhone4 launch on Verizon is finally happening today. It’s great news for Apple and consumers, as the complaints have piled up on AT&T on coverage and signal. The ongoing impression over the past year in the tech business has been that Apple’s phone has a hard time making calls – in reference ...
Handling Big Data For Content Creators – Interview with Yoni Cohen Founder of Snowball vfx
This is a video from IBM talking about a customers success story from a innovator called Snowball Vfx. Snowball | VFX, industry innovator in video and animation takes advantage of IBM Real-time Compression to run their business more competitively. Handling data for media like video and special effects for animation is one of the biggest ...
Company Profile: "The SiliconANGLE" on Fusion-io
Fusion-io is one of those companies that comes around just once in a while that transforms the data center. I love this company. Why? Fusion-io has some of the smartest people in tech, their product is “running the table” on key wins, their CEO was on theCube, and the Woz works there. More importantly, Fusion-io ...
Why Dell’s Acquisition of Compellent is a Smart One
Editor’s Note: Last week the SiliconANGLE team met and decided to introduce a new format for our readers called “The SiliconANGLE.” Since our founding in the middle of 2009, there is one thing that SiliconANGLE has become known for – a unique angle on key news, trends, technologies, and companies. Now we are introducing “the ...
SalesForce.com Buys Heroku In Hopes To Be The Platform For Cloud Developers
Salesforce.com is plowing further into the cloud market recently announced its purchase of $212 million for Heroku, a cloud platform as a service, (PaaS) for $212 million in cash in an effort to expand into the fast growing social media and mobile space. M&A has been hot in storage, and now heating back up in ...
What Is A Rock Star Founder? Simple Answer: Keep Control After VC Series A
Paul Graham just posted one of his articles called “Founder Control”. I was eager to write this post, because as I have said before, the real rock star founders are the ones that can keep control of their company after their VC Series A. T he hall of fame founders are the ones that can ...
Mobile Advertising Booming – Google Apple & Millennial Media Top 3
I read an article from BusinessInsider by Dan Frommer today around the top mobile advertising platforms. We’ve been covering this sector over over a year and a half, years and in that time we have seen AdMob get bought by Google and Millennial rise to the top of the independent list. It’s a growing and ...