Klint Finley, Author at SiliconANGLE

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Facebook as an Enterprise Vendor? It’s Not as Crazy as It Sounds

By Klint Finley Oct 14, 2011

GigaOM’s Derreck Harris asks whether Facebook might be the next big enterprise software vendor. Why isn’t it crazy? Well, look at Amazon.com. Amazon.com is and was an e-commerce giant. But in 2006, it decided…

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IBM PaaS: It’s All About the Middleware

By Klint Finley Oct 13, 2011

IBM’s been working on its WebSphere based platform-as-a-service for years now. GigaOM first reported a public beta of the service way back in 2009. This week IBM gave its SmartCloud portfolio of service a…

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RIP Dennis Ritchie, Co-Creator of Unix and Creator of the C Programming Language

By Klint Finley Oct 13, 2011

Computer scientist Dennis Ritchie wasn’t as famous as Steve Jobs, but his contributions to technology are at least as mammoth. Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs confirmed today that Ritchie died October 8th. He was best…

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Cloud Sync Gets Hotter: Citrix Acquires ShareFile

By Klint Finley Oct 13, 2011

I’ve been saying in recent weeks that file syncing is hot. Dropbox reportedly declined a $600 million acquisition offer from Apple, and Box is rumored to have declined an offer of over $500 million.…

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A Leaked Memo, and What Google Plus Can Learn from Google Apps

By Klint Finley Oct 12, 2011

Today a Google developer named Steve Yegge made waves by accidentally publishing a long rant publicly on Google Plus instead of sharing it only internally. The jist of the post is that Google just…

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Benchmark, Yammer Poach Executives from Salesforce.com

By Klint Finley Oct 12, 2011

Today TechCrunch reported that former Salesforce.com CTO Craig Weissman is joining Benchmark Capital as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Meanwhile, Yammer announced that former Salesforce.com VP of Vertical Sales David Obrand is joining Yammer as VP of…

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Google Announces Cloud Storage Hot on Heels of IBM/Nirvanix Deal

By Klint Finley Oct 12, 2011

Last week Google followed Oracle’s Public Cloud announcement with its own Cloud SQL announcement. Today, Google made an enterprise cloud announcement that includes a new Cloud Storage service along with an SLA update for…

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Big Data at Monsanto: Genome Sequencing with BigCouch

By Klint Finley Oct 12, 2011

Today Cloudant, the sponsor company behind the Apache CouchDB-based open source BigCouch project, announced a new customer acquisition: the controversial agriculture company Monsanto. Monsanto is using BigCouch to manage its genome sequencing data analysis,…

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Egnyte Takes On Box with Server Sync and More

By Klint Finley Oct 11, 2011

Today Box officially announced its new $81 million round of funding, taking the company’s total raised this year to $164 million. Following its BoxWorks event last month and rumors it turned down an acquisition…

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Google Grabs Talent Behind Social Analytics Company SocialGrapple

By Klint Finley Oct 10, 2011

Google has acquired SocialGrapple, a social graph analytics company founded by Andrey Petrov. Petrov issued a statement saying that SocialGrapple is being shut down as part of the acquisition. Google confirmed to Dain Binder…

Klint Finley

Facebook as an Enterprise Vendor? It’s Not as Crazy as It Sounds

RIP Dennis Ritchie, Co-Creator of Unix and Creator of the C Programming Language

A Leaked Memo, and What Google Plus Can Learn from Google Apps

Benchmark, Yammer Poach Executives from Salesforce.com

Big Data at Monsanto: Genome Sequencing with BigCouch

Google Grabs Talent Behind Social Analytics Company SocialGrapple

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