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Google Is The Next Google – Google Announces Quarter Earnings – Very Impressive Results
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2010. “Google had an excellent quarter,” said Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. “Our core business grew very well, and our newer businesses — particularly display and mobile — continued to show significant momentum. Going forward, we remain committed to aggressive investment ...
Oracle to Buy Out The Virtualization Market Leader EMC & VMware – Maybe $50b Gets The Job Done
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that shares of EMC Corp. (EMC) jumped Thursday on speculation that Oracle Corp. (ORCL) may be considering acquiring the data storage systems company. EMC shares were up 4.88% to $21.29 in early trading, closing in on its 52-week high of $21.83. Oracle’s stock was down about 1.16%. EMC shares ...
IBM Stares Into The Future of Cloud and Storage – It’s About Storwize and Real Time Compression
As I prepare for the big Hadoop World conference in NYC (which IBM will not be participating at), I am reflecting on IBM’s storage event that they held yesterday in NYC. Is IBM positioned for the future of the enterprise where the storage paradigm is the linchpin for cloud? Hadoop World will feature presentations by ...
QLogic Crushing It With Convergence for the Enterprise Cloud
We are now living in a converged enterprise infrastructure change over. Firms that are going fully to converged infrastructure will be the leaders in the enterprise and service provider infrastructure. Two examples are HP and QLogic. Both HP and QLogic are pumping out some serious market leading products that address a relevant and fast growing ...
Confirmed: Not First SuperAngels Collusion Meeting; Limited Partners Backing Out; Entrepreneurs Getting Screwed
Mike Arrington broke a story about a secret meeting of some of the big names of new super angels trying to figure out how to create "buddy networks" around early stage deals. My immediate reaction was no way that would happen. But after digging around, turns out, it is true. I have predicted the train ...
Avaya Flare IPad Clone Video Offering Looking To Competing With Cisco and Apple – Android The Secret Weapon?
Today, Avaya, announced a set of enterprise video products and services. They are calling it Avaya Flare Experience. It was unclear from the company’s messaging on the pricing but the positioning is clear – it’s a direct strike at Cisco and Apple. Avaya’s video device (tablet and iPad clone) features an 11.6″ HD touch screen ...
SAP vs. Oracle – Bill McDermott explains how SAP is different
At the SAP press conference today, I asked Bill McDermott, Co-CEO of SAP, specifically how SAP is different from Oracle? SAP has been the leader in business software for nearly four decades and McDermott had a compelling answer. Specifically, he said that despite “others” spending more than $50B in acquisitions to get into our space ...
Cloud Storage Startup StorSimple Lands $13 million in Funding – Mayfield Looks For The Next 3Par It’s StorSimple
Cloud storage startup StorSimple just raised $13 million in Series B funding round led by Mayfield Fund. Cloud storage is hot which is reflected by the massive M&A activity from the big guys like EMC, NetApp, IBM, and HP. One of the company’s co-founders, Guru Pangal, founded a company called Rhapsody Networks, which was sold ...
Innovation!! Apple App Store For Enterprise Apps – Juniper Networks Puts Mobile IT Services in Apple App Store – Future of IT
At VMworld 2010 Just this past month Paul Maritz, CEO of VMware, gave a compelling keynote where he showed the future of IT as a service model where IT managers will be deploying services out of an app store like feature. He showed a demo of it during his keynote at VMworld 2010. Well Juniper ...
EMC #1 in VMware Storage Virtualization – EMC Gaining Market Share Not Losing in VMware
On the heels of the big industry news of HP and Dell bidding for storage vendor 3Par (which SiliconANGLE covered like a blanket), there is a silent war going on. A war for leadership in virtualized storage. A battle for number one in virtualization by the leading vendors EMC, IBM, HP, NetApp, and others. According ...