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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 ...
Special Report: Inside the HP Dell Bidding War for 3PAR – Will the Company Fetch More Than $2B?
As part of our continuous coverage of the Dell, 3PAR, and now HP, I’ve done some digging around over the past week talking with dozens of sources on this deal. We’ve been all over this 3PAR story and I broke the news that Frank Quattrone was leading the M&A for 3Par. 3PAR is apparently giving ...
Chegg CEO Dan Rosensweig – Video By Kara Swisher
Kara Swisher goes to Chegg headquarters to meet the Chegg team and interview Dan Rosensweig. As I reported first on Chegg plans to go public, Dan Rosensweig was hired to take Chegg to the next level including an IPO. Dan Rosensweig was hired to take Chegg public. Chegg is doing extremely well in the revenue ...
Foursquare Partnership!? No! The Real Time Value of Facebook Is About Places – Facebook Places
Kristen Nicole wrote up the news that Kara Swisher was teasing out regarding the big Facebook press event (happening now) and after party. Tonight, we will hear the news that Kara is calling Facebook Places. Will it be the real time location or geolocation intelligence feature that will rival the other existing smaller players like ...