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 catch our first glimpse of Microsoft’s Xbox One – the first all-in-one gaming and entertainment system. When the Xbox series started, there wasn’t the connected consumer of today. Smartphones weren’t so ...

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 that Butterfly Labs has finally begun to ship its long awaited ASIC Bitcoin Miners. Imagine being told about something great that you want, and then told about delay after delay on ...

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 discuss how Orchestrate.io just received $3 million to crunch all kinds of data in the cloud. Antony Falco, co-founder of Basho Technologies, has been around his fair share of databases. Specifically, ...

Let’s size up Google Compute Engine, Amazon AWS and the rest of the Cloud field. While the “who” is important, the “where” they’ll be competing in is equally important. Service Level Agreements (SLAs) will be a key development to watch in Google Compute Engine’s (GCE) ecosystem to determine its maturity in the public cloud sector. If Google ...

Snowed in by the Tumblr news, Lenovo announced today that its LenovoEMC portfolio of Network Attached Storage (NAS) products are now available through Lenovo channel partners and direct from Lenovo in North America. LenovoEMC products are now fully integrated into Lenovo’s leading channel partner program. In a joint venture that was finalized earlier this year, ...

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 discuss the news of Yahoo! acquiring Tumblr. If you were anywhere near the Internet this weekend, you heard the news break of Yahoo!’s board approving the acquisition of Tumblr, reported at ...

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 Jolla’s first Sailfish OS smartphone. This is Jolla’s first smartphone. It will go on sale this year for €399 (roughly $510). The smartphone will run Jolla’s MeeGo-derived Sailfish OS, ...

The public cloud is becoming a crowded cloud-mess of who’s-who in technology. The incumbent is Amazon Web Services (AWS), going up against the likes of Microsoft Windows Azure, OpenStack-based providers RackSpace, HP and others…and now Google with the Google Compute Engine (GCE). GCE has all of the makings to be one of Amazon AWS’s strongest ...

It’s not often that two competing startups in a specific industry close funding rounds on the same day. Data centers and Big Data, specifically the storage of that data, are a growing need for companies today. Two startups that offer technology to help those companies manage their data centers closed their respective financing rounds earlier ...

Virtualized Storage (an important aspect of the Software-led datacenter movement) is already here. Companies are virtualizing their storage environments and saving significant time and money in doing so. While the evolution of the cloud might still be “up in the air” (pun intended, credit: John Furrier), the fact is it is happening. Cloud infrastructures and ...