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The New Service Providers Are Corporate Enterprises – Cloudera Goes Commercial For Enterprises
Hello Enterprise 2.0 World!! Mark the calendar – today the enterprise is moving to be the next service provider for consumers – the business user or worker. The biggest and fastest growing trend we are monitoring here on SiliconANGLE is the new Enterprise 2.0 around “converged infrastructure” meets “virtualization and cloud computing” – driving all ...
Cisco & Brocade Get the Smackdown: HP Selects QLogic for FCoE Switch Technology
Wow!! the HP Cisco war that we were the first to report is showing some movement and shaking up the pecking order of the industry. Just earlier in the week HP announced the new Virtual Connect Flex Fabric architecture and now they are announcing a big convergence innovation with emerging datacenter brand QLogic. HP and ...
Datacenters Are Cloudy – A New Network Infrastructure Model
The fundamental nature of data center computing is rapidly changing. The traditional model of separately provisioned and maintained server, storage, and network resources are constraining data center agility and increasing the operational budgets and killing budgets required to change and grow. It’s a big problem when you have static pools of isolated resources dedicated for ...
Cloud Predictions: My Chat With Tom Roloff EMC Senior VP Consulting
Tomorrow I’ll be at the GigaOm Structure 10 cloud event and I’ll see Tom Roloff who will be speaking there. Tom is a great guy but very much on top of one of the biggest trends – IT and Cloud convergence. I sat down and talked with Tom Roloff at EMC World. We had a ...
Mobile Action: Apple 3m iPads <3 months & Skype Gets Smart Launches SkypeKit For Developers
Big news today is that Apple announced that they have sold over 3 million iPads in only 80 days after its introduction in the US. Even more impressive is that Apple just this month started selling iPads outside the US. Apple keeps blowing away the iPad estimates. I wrote about how all of this cloud ...
Innovation Trends: Silicon Valley Verses Boston and The World – Consumerization of EveryThing Not Just IT
I just got back from my trip last week to the Boston and surrounding areas. Of course the Celtics Lakers were the big story, but I found myself contrasting the two regions from a tech angle and it’s relevance to how business is changing. Over the past decade Boston has fallen behind while Silicon Valley ...
Infographic: Public vs Private Cloud
There are as many definitions of cloud as there are technology bloggers. However, the major theme is that a Public Cloud provides IT resources that are provisioned remotely from the consumer and operated by a third party. In a Private Cloud, the infrastructure policies are governed by a single organization where workloads and data can ...
M&A $140m Action 10x Return- Venture Backed Storwize On The Selling Block
Reuters is putting out a story that Storwize is going to be bought by IBM for $140 million. Storwize, which develops online data compression software that increases storage space in network storage environments, has raised $40 million since it was founded in 2004. Storwize was funded by Sequoia Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Tenaya Capital, Tamares ...
Brocade Copies Juniper, Takes on Cisco and Emulex Tries to Take on QLogic in FCoE
According to eweek, Brocade is taking on Cisco in the datacenter for switches. This is on the heels of some other datacenter news where QLogic competitor Emulex announced they bought ServerEngines for a whooping $225 million when company was doing revenue of only $4 million per quarter ($16m per year). First the QLogic/Emulex and ServerEngines ...
What Twitter Really Means – Twitter User Data Highlights The Value Proposition
According to the Conversational Media summit in NY, Twitter’s COO Dick Costolo is putting out some stats on Twitter usage, unique visitors and more importantly the preferred user experience that Twitter is seeing. These latest number from Costolo confirms again that SiliconANGLE had the right angle on the meaning of Twitter. However, there is a ...