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LIVE: Why PRISM is Just the First of Many Private User Data Balls to Drop
On today’s SiliconANGLE Live NewsDesk Show, (see live feed below or visit youtube.com/siliconangle to watch on-demand), we learn about the government spying program PRISM where it was reported that Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and soon Dropbox were participants. According to the Washington Post, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple, Yahoo, AOL and PalTalk are all knowing ...
Horses, Buggies and SSDs – Outlining Storage Market’s Transition Period
We have a tendency to explain things in dumbed-down versions of what they really are, to make them far easier to understand. It’s a great tactic for comprehending the increasing complexity of today’s data center and all its networked components. The storage sector is particularly complicated, considering its central role in today’s data management cycle. ...
HP, Dell Angle for the Top Spot In Converged Storage : It’s a Race
There has been a lot of recent movement in the converged storage space. And while its not a new topic, it’s definitely a topic that has gotten a lot of buzz in the hype cycle as of late. Converged storage is one of the three components of the emerging vision of converged infrastructure, evolving the ...
LIVE: IBM Shifts From Private to Public Cloud With Acquisition of SoftLayer
Updated with full video – see below. On today’s SiliconANGLE Live NewsDesk Show, (see live feed below or visit youtube.com/siliconangle to watch on-demand), we discuss IBM’s reported $2 billion acquisition of Softlayer and its plans for the public cloud. This week IBM made an estimated two-billion dollar acquisition of Softlayer. In a story originally cracked ...
LIVE: Mobile Consumption on Smartphone Snowball – Rollin’ at Full Speed
Updated with full video – see below. On today’s SiliconANGLE Live NewsDesk Show, (see live feed below or visit youtube.com/siliconangle to watch on-demand), we learn that, according to a Pew Research Center study, for the first time in history the majority (56 percent) of adults in America have a smartphone. This is a historic day ...
What’s HP’s Strategy for Flash + 3PAR? Scale Up vs. Scale Out
HP Discover 2013 kicks off next week, running June 11th-13th. One of the stories we’re looking for at HP Discover is going to be Hewlett-Packard’s current position with 3PAR, a key acquisition from a couple years back, and 3PAR’s role in HP’s goals to update its Flash-based storage technology. On its earnings call last week, ...
Without Storage, Our Data Revolution Falls Flat on Its Face
In seven years, both Cisco (2011 report) and SAP (2013 report) estimate that there will be 50 billion ‘things’ connected to the Internet. That means that in 2020 there will be 3-6.5 devices for every man, woman, and child on this planet. The Internet of Things “movement” expects almost seven Internet connected devices for every ...
LIVE: Dell Buyout Plan Admits Troubled Recovery
Updated with full video – see below. On today’s SiliconANGLE Live NewsDesk Show, (see live feed below or visit youtube.com/siliconangle to watch on-demand), we discuss Dell trimming CEO Michael Dell’s pay by 14 percent as performance slips ahead of the buyout, and the Dell Enterprise Forum. Dell trimmed Chief Executive Officer Michael Dell’s compensation by ...
LIVE: FreedomPop Steals a Page Out of the Dot-Com Internet Providers’ Playbook
Updated with full video – see below. On today’s SiliconANGLE Live NewsDesk Show, (see live feed below or visit youtube.com/siliconangle to watch on-demand), we discuss freemium wireless data startup FreedomPop and its free voice + data wireless service. Freemium wireless data startup FreedomPop has been dead-set on undercutting traditional wireless carriers on data plan costs since ...
Top Trends Driving Converged Infrastructure Adoption + Evolution
Spending on converged infrastructure is expected to exceed $17 billion by 2016, so it’s no wonder top vendors are pouring resources into expanding their product portfolios around this unified technology. The data center of the future will have to be smarter and more efficient, minimizing management and points of access. That means machines will need ...