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Leadership Series: An Afternoon with Rightscale’s Michael Crandell
I recently had lunch at Max’s in Menlo Park with Michael Crandell, the CEO of Rightscale (the cloud services manager company), to talk about trends and observations in cloud computing. You can hear the background noise at Max’s (great desserts at Max’s). Here are my notes from the meeting: Rightscale has a unique perspective in ...
Google Chrome Cloud OS for Netbooks and Beyond – Google Chrome OS
According to Google a perfect storm of converging trends is the themes. The Netbook is really what Google is targeting. Chrome OS is for Netbooks for what Android is for SmartPhones. Best news is that it’s all open source. Here is Google’s blog post on the open sourcing of the effort. In their presentation and ...
Hey Developers Download Google Chrome OS – Chrome OS Download
If you’re a developer and you’re looking for Google Chrome operating system for download. Here it is. I’ve blogged in the past that we are seeing a massive developer boom and a growing entrepreneurial counter culture. Google is leading this counterculture. I like this approach by Google. You can find the source code here, and ...
I Was One Year Early on Google Chrome News – A Look Back At My Prediction Last Year
Google is hosting a small press gathering in Mountain View to give an update on their progress with Google Chrome OS. This is a technical announcement and set of demos featuring the Chrome OS team. Sundar Pichai, Vice President of Product Management will be speaking along with Matthew Papakipos, Engineering Director for Google Chrome OS. ...
Intel Leverages Cloud With Tools to Test Scalable Apps
Intel Corporation is announcing the launch of Intel® Parallel Universe Portal (http://paralleluniverse.intel.com), a new cloud-based application scalability testing service. The analysis offered by this service helps with scaling — a key programming challenge for multicore processors. This is important for developers in the development of scalable cloud ready apps. Intel Software Group has been outreaching ...
Executive Leadership Series: Lew Moorman President of Rackspace Cloud
Introducing the SiliconANGLE Executive Leadership Series. The SiliconANGLE Executive Leadership Series is a set of posts and podcasts that highlights industry leading figures innovating and changing the technology industry. The first installment is featuring Lew Moorman, senior vice president of strategy Rackspace and president of Rackspace Cloud. The Leadership Series will focus on the people ...
The Top 10 Domains on Sharing with Twitter: UberTwitter Is More Popular than Facebook
SALabs has a data tap into Twitter data and have been looking at the data around content sharing. When I look at the data here is what I’m seeing for Twitter usage and platform popularity. Here is the list of the most popular domain platforms for sharing on Twitter 1. Web Obviously, the web based ...
HP 3Com Exclusive: HP’s Marius Haas to Cisco: “We’ll Bring It.”
With HP’s announcement of the acquisition of 3Com for $2.7 billion it will be known as the day the HP Cisco “cold war” escalated to full on war. November 11, 2009 was the day the opening shot of the Cisco HP Networking and Server War was fired. I sat down yesterday evening with HP’s Senior ...
Blackberry Developer Conference – They Want to Friend Everyone
Update from event: The points below are NOT quotes. They are paraphrased and/or my own personal liberal interpretations. I cannot emphasize this point enough; nobody from RIM actually said these words. 1. We are the carrier’s friend. Bandwidth is extremely constrained, and upgrading networks costs tens or hundreds of billions of dollars. All-you-can-eat data plans ...
Blekko and The Google Killer Jinx
The worst thing that any startup can do is say that they are a Google killer. It is natural for Rich Skrenta the founder of Blekko – a search engine – messaging the opposite. Rich writes: “…there is no such thing as a Google killer. No company is going to play David to their Goliath ...
