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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 ...
#VMworld 2010 Live Schedule #theCube At Blogger Lounge
The team at VMware and SiliconANGLE are proud to announce the schedule of VMworld 2010 Live "The Cube" powered by SiliconANGLE.com. John Troyer, VMware community manager and VMworld Live’s executive producer, in conjunction with the SiliconANGLE team have put together a live video coverage program called #theCube at the VMworld 2010 blogger lounge The VMworld ...
Data Means Data Protection – FalconStor Software Announces Cloud Storage Server Accelerator for VMware
Backup and recovery has been around for a long time and is critical for business to secure their data. What’s disruptive is the cloud. Legacy solutions often have the wrong “process” for backup and recovery. It’s a different world now. New use cases and new networks are opening up the doors for new solutions. FalconStor ...
VMWorld Live Video at VMWorld 2010 – The CUBE is Here to Stay – Covering All Angles in Virtualization and Cloud – No Hype Just Proof Points
As posted earlier, The CUBE is part of SiliconANGLE’s continuous coverage of cloud computing and virtualization. The CUBE is powered by SiliconANGLE in conjunction with VMware, and introduces an innovative, four-day editorial live coverage of all the angles at VMworld 2010. Join Us. Watch Live! SiliconANGLE introduces VMworld Live – The CUBE. The CUBE is ...
Hot Cloud Startup Atlantis Computing Gets $10M Series C Funding From Cisco, Making Cloud Storage Cheaper
Atlantis Computing, Virtual Desktop storage provider, has announced the close of a $10 million Series C investment. The round was led by Partech International, El Dorado Ventures and Cisco Systems Inc. Atlantis will put the funds towards sales and marketing, particularly headed for international growth. “Desktop virtualization is one of the fastest growing technology sectors ...
