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VMware Marching Towards Software Defined Datacenter with Software Defined Storage Acquisition of Virsto
VMware today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Virsto Software, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based provider of software that optimizes storage performance and utilization in virtual environments. This is a big move for Virsto. Virsto has done a great job in VM Centric and purpose built software that addresses the automation and orchestration for the ...
Apple Becomes Largest Mobile Phone Vendor in United States
Apple has become the #1 mobile phone vendor according to a recent report by Strategy Analysis market research firm. Mobile phone shipments grew 4 percent annually from 50.2 million units in Q4 2011 to 52.0million in the United States in Q4 2012. The growth was driven by robust demand among consumers for 4G smartphones and ...
Dell 2.0 – Michael Dell Going “All-In” – Going Private is Gutsy Move
According to Reuters Dell Inc is about to go private in a buyout led by its founder and Chief Executive Michael Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, possibly announcing a deal as soon as Monday, according to two people familiar with the matter. Michael Dell is expected to take majority ownership of the ...
NEA VC Bolts Firm to Head Up NYC Startup Incubator Techstars
It was announced today that Eugene Chung (@eyc), a venture capitalist at NEA, flew the nest at NEA to head up NYC startup incubator TechStars NYC. On Twitter Eugene describes himself as “Managing Director at TechStars NYC, film director, dreams about solipsism & the singularity”. He is Harvard guy HBS to be specific. I ...
Big Data Search Engines are Big Right Now – Stremor Announces Heuristic Engine
Big Data is all the rage right now. Search engines value appears to be polluted with SEO and social networks are booming. Graph search is hot and Big Data is smoking hot. Startups are constantly trying to add Big Data to their pitch deck. Companies looking at a few thousand data points or want to ...
Facebook 4th Qtr Results – Mobile Beats Web Usage
Facebook’s 4th quarter report just came out. Revenue for the fourth quarter totaled $1.585 billion, an increase of 40%, compared with $1.13 billion in the fourth quarter of 2011. “In 2012, we connected over a billion people and became a mobile company,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO. “We enter 2013 with good momentum ...
Storage Magic Kingdom: Top 10 Storage Trending Topics in Tech Week of Jan 30, 2013
The publishing and research teams at SiliconANGLE and Wikibon are tracking the top conversations trends in the technology crowd. Verticals include cloud, enterprise mobile, big data, datacenter, software-defined networking, virtualization, devops, and many more. One area in the crowd where the conversation is hot is storage. From a sample size of 240,175 unique users in the storage ...
ThisMoment Proving Social Media Is About Measurement – Keeping it Real As In Real Time
In business there is an old saying and it goes “you can’t understand what you can’t measure”. Recently, there has been a backlash against the “S word” being thrown about by consultants looking to make a quick buck from unknowing audiences. Social is changing as businesses are crying foul and the buck is stopping. Or ...
10gen Promotes Max Schireson to CEO to Scale the Hell Out of 10Gen
SiliconANGLE theCUBE alum Max Schireson was promoted to CEO of 10gen from President according to the company. Co-founder and former CEO Dwight Merriman will continue to serve as Chairman in a full-time capacity. 10Gen powers MongoDB is an open source database system. At Oracle Openworld I sat down with Max Schireson recently to talk about ...
Desperately Seeking Flash – Seagate Invests $40 Million in Virident Systems For Joint Flash Solution
Seagate Technology and Virident Systems announced a strategic partnership to jointly deliver flash storage solutions to the enterprise. In conjunction with the partnership, Seagate is investing $40 million in Virident and will appoint a member to its Board of Directors. With the partnership Seagate will immediately offer a complete line of flash-based PCIe solutions to its OEM and distribution ...
