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Scoop: Oracle Gets “Spark Plug” for Converged Datacenter and Cloud Play with QLogic Deal
Is Oracle going hard at Private Cloud? Yes they are. I just confirmed that Oracle has done a deal with QLogic for FCoE in their stack and will be branding it Oracle. According to the QLogic earnings call its CNAs will be used in Oracle SPARC M Series servers, Oracle SPARC T Series servers and ...
FooBar In Silicon Valley – The Lost Decade – Entrepreneurship Lost In Translation
Great post by Steve Blank about “The Lost Decade” or the past ten years of the most f’d up entrepreneurship market that I have ever seen in my lifetime. I’ve been working up a post on this for some time in reflection to the past ten years of shit. I’m 44 years old and the ...
Viral Video Goof on Fat & Sweaty IT Guy – This Seems like more is going to happen
I ran into this viral video from Storwize and it’s looks like it’s the first in a series of posts. This is the kind of video that blends humor with informative ads. It’s obviously a teaser video love the apple that flys in at the end. I would have had the apple hit the guy ...
My Bing Review: It’s Clear Bing’s Big Bet Is Mobile – Bing Search Summit 2010
I was at the Bing Search Summit 2010 in San Francisco to hear what the folks at Bing are up to and what their product roadmap for the future looks like. Bing is moving the needle inch by inch trying to change the game to compete against the market incumbent Google who has monster sized ...
Official Skype Statement: We Did Not Block Fring – Fring Crashed On Their Own
I have been digging on this Skype thing with Fring. Apparently, Techcrunch is reporting that Skype blocked them and Fring has put out a release saying they were blocked by Skype. In checking around and now Skype officially responds and says that they didn’t block them. Skype Responds – Here is Skype’s statement: Skype has ...
Cisco Might Have Big Issues – Rip & Replace Verses Incremental Improvement
Let me get this out of the way. I have been a big fan of Cisco for many years. I have friends who work there and have friends who have sold companies to Cisco. I admired Cisco’s leadership in the Web 1.0. Recently, I’ve been down on Cisco for their strategy of locking infrastructure in ...
Big Data Clouds Are Here – EMC Acquires Greenplum A Move To Counter Oracle
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world’s leading provider of information infrastructure solutions, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire California-based Greenplum, Inc. Greenplum is a privately-held, fast-growing provider of disruptive data warehousing technology, a key enabler of "big data" clouds and self-service analytics. Upon completion of the acquisition, Greenplum will form the ...
Skype Massive Expansion In Silicon Valley – Plans to Build Out More Innovation
Skype CEO Josh Silverman announces today in a blog post that Skype is coming to Silicon Valley. My town of Palo Alto will be their location of their new Silicon Valley office. According to Skype, the operations will be in Palo Alto at Stanford University where Skype signed a lease for 90,000 square foot facility. ...
HP Palm Analysis: HP Finalized Palm Acqusition – It’s All About SmartPhones and Edge Devices
Today, HP today announced it has completed its acquisition of Palm Inc. at a price of $5.70 per share of Palm common stock in cash. Back in March SiliconAngle was the first to accurately report that HP would be buying Palm. We have been covering this story from that point forward. HP then went out ...
Foursquare Kisses All The Frogs And The Rise of Andreeseen Horowitz – A Venture Story
Foursquare just announced that they have secured $20 million in additional financing at a $95 million valuation, with Silicon Valley’s Andreessen Horowitz leading the new investment. Also stepping up in the round is previous investors Union Square Ventures and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. Kara Swisher has been tracking this development over the past few months. Kara ...