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CrowdChat learn about the Horizon for desktop and app Virtualization #HorizonChat
Join the conversation on April 15th at 9am pst to find out what’s new about VMware’s Horizon desktop and app virtualization. VMware’s Shawn Bass (@shawnbass) has had over 20 years of experience and is an expert in desktop and app virtualization. Tomorrow he will be co-hosting a #horizonchat Crowdchat alongside analyst Simon Bramfitt @simonbramfitt and ...
Docker nabs massive Series D financing of $95 million | #DockerMadness
Docker, Inc. announced a new $95 million funding round, marking another major endorsement for the fast-growing startup whose container technology is the latest craze in cloud development. This new round of funding was led by Insight Venture Partners, with new contributions from Coatue, Goldman Sachs and Northern Trust. Existing investors Benchmark, Greylock Partners, Sequoia Capital, Trinity ...
Illumio raises monster funding of $100 million for new security model
Illumio has raised $100 million in new financing for its potentially game-changing approach to data center and cloud security. The latest round was led by BlackRock Funds, Accel Partners and others including industry leaders John W. Thompson. The Series C round brings the security company’s total investment to more than $142 million in the past ...
IronKey CrowdChat #GoldenKey #RSA15
We held a crowd sourced conversation with a company called Ironkey which provides any enterprise or government looking to secure their data. According to Marina Donovan, IronKey offers the most secure flash drives and Windows To Go drives on the market. “Security is like locking your home – often you increase your home security when ...
How to create a billion dollar venture “unicorn” in 10 steps
I just read a great post over on Medium by Salim Ismail (@salimismail) on The Secrets of Unicorn Companies a discussion on scalable organizations. 10-step plan for building a billion dollar venture: Select a Massive, Transformative Purpose (or MTP) like Google’s “Organize the World’s Information or Quirky’s “Make Invention Accessible”. All ExOs we’ve found have such ...
Launching #VCchat Inaugural CrowdChat with NEA Pete Sonsini
I’m starting a monthly crowd sourced content series via CrowdChat called #VCchat. It’s a monthly chat about the trends in venture capital and entrepreneurship. This is a topic that is near and dear to my heart. I’m kicking off the series with industry pro Pete Sonsini from NEA. Pete is one of the best if ...
[LIVE CHAT] Hedvig startup Q&A – crowd activated press conference with founder CEO – #CrowdChat
I (@furrier) will be host with Hedvig (@HedvigInc) a live chat crowdsourced press conference CrowdChat with @SiliconANGLE @theCUBE. We covered the startup when it launched. Hedvig is a new platform that offers to aggregate commodity hardware and off-premise cloud resources into a reliable storage environment with advanced management capabilities historically only available in expensive proprietary appliances. Join the ...
#ReDefineBigData CrowdChat with Bill Schmarzo
Bill Schmarzo is EMC’s hottest technologist when it comes to applying big data to business transformation projects. Join me for a [LIVE CHAT] on Monday March 23rd at 10am pst (1pm EST) for a special AMA with “the Dean of Big Data” – Bill Schmarzo. Topic will be about data lakes and how businesses are ...
Trending Links: Crowd generated trending stories
Some of the top trending stories from the crowd in the SiliconANGLE, @theCUBE, and Wikibon community that I’m reading. Enjoy. The Evolution Of Steve Jobs One of tech’s most important investors says ‘you’ll see some dead unicorns this year’ among startups worth $1 billion It Took the Telephone 75 Years To Do What Angry Birds ...
Entrepreneurial hustle or arbitrage? The meerkat pivot
Meerkat, a new app that rose out of their recent company pivot, has achieved tons of buzz over the past three weeks. The timing around the success of Meerkat and the recent Twitter acquisition of a similar app called Periscope. The main question is about opportunity recognition vs innovation with respect to software entrepreneurship. One ...