On today’s SiliconANGLE Live NewsDesk Show (see live feed below or visit youtube.com/siliconangle to watch on-demand), we learn that BuzzFeed is collaborating with CNN and YouTube in an effort to reach out to the youth market. Today BuzzFeed will unveil “CNN BuzzFeed,” a YouTube channel based on content from CNN, including archival and current content, ...

Two trends in particular have disrupted the storage market in recent years: Flash and software-led initiatives.  They’re both game-changers, destined to meet along the path to evolved storage architecture.  But will that inevitable juncture be met with harmony or conflict? When Flash Meets Software-Defined Storage    Earlier this week we held a tweet chat posing ...

As Yahoo announced its acquisition of Tumblr and a significant update to Flickr in the same day — my first reaction was, “why did they blow their load in one day?” Our news cycle is short, but even as short as a one-day cycle, Yahoo in essence snowed in its own product upgrade announcement. I ...

On today’s SiliconANGLE Live NewsDesk Show, (see live feed below or visit youtube.com/siliconangle to watch on-demand), we discuss the crowd-sourced mapping app Waze, and the who’s who of web giants, including Google Now, interested in buying it. Its being reported that Google is interesting in buying map-software provider Waze Inc., setting up a potential bidding ...

Google Compute Engine’s (GCE) entrance into the public cloud space offers nothing short of a jolt to the collective pulse of CIOs. Wikibon’s Stu Miniman recently sized up the public cloud playing field, giving some action items for the CIO, briefly highlighting some of the pros and cons. Public cloud providers are making a strong ...

On today’s SiliconANGLE Live NewsDesk Show, (see live feed below or visit youtube.com/siliconangle to watch on-demand), we discuss Twitter FINALLY implementing two-step authentication for users to protect their accounts. Two-step authentication means those who activate it will be required to enter a second, six-digit passcode sent via SMS each time they attempt to login to ...

On today’s SiliconANGLE Live NewsDesk Show, (see live feed below or visit youtube.com/siliconangle to watch on-demand), we dive into the earnings reports of computer industry giant Hewlett-Packard and its fiscal year Q2 2013 results, as well as storage industry specialist NetApp and its fiscal Q4 2013 and full year results. Revenue came in at $27.6 ...

Google Compute Engine’s (GCE) entry into the public cloud market highlights the pricing war going on amongst the web giants that have begun to commoditize their infrastructure. The playing field in the cloud wars is starting to level in pricing, as all the major players feature comparable pricing. However, even with comparable pricing, public cloud ...

Today we’re teaming up with The Wikibon Project’s own Stu Miniman (@stu), David Floyer (@dfloyer) and Dave Vellante (@dvellante) will be hosting a #tweetchat on the intersection between Flash and Software Defined Storage (SDS) / Software-Led Infrastructure (SLI). Please join us and use the hashtag #flashahead. According to Dave, Flash is transforming infrastructure and application ...

Updated with full video – see below. On today’s SiliconANGLE Live NewsDesk Show, (see embed feed below or visit youtube.com/siliconangle to watch on-demand), we learn about VMware’s first public infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud product, dubbed the vCloud Hybrid Service. Gartner Inc. estimates that sales of Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) will surge by an average of 38 percent annually ...