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Bloomberg is reporting that Violin Memory is going public at a $2 billion dollar valuation. According to Bloomberg, Violin IPO is being led by JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Deutsche Bank AG (DBK) and Bank of America Corp. (BAC). The timing and price of the offering …
Microsoft Punches Back: Responds To Scathing NY Times Article on Cloud Factories – Our Summary
Microsoft responses to the NY Times article (series) called Cloud Factories. Here was my response yesterday on SiliconANGLE. New York Times took a cheap shot at Microsoft on a story saying Microsoft was an evil corporate overlord dictating their control over …
Cloud Factory Series: Datacenter Innovation Advancement Not About Power, Pollution, and Internet
Breaking Analysis: The NY Times article published over the weekend on datacenter power is a rehash of old data and old concepts that no longer apply to today’s datacenter market. Another one is up today called Data Barns in Farm Town, Gobbling Power …
Apple iPhone 5 – Official Release
Apple is dominating the Internet every time they put out an iPhone. Today, they introduced the Apple iPhone 5. What’s interesting is the evolution of the iPhone vs Android. Here is an interesting picture of the iPhone vs Android innovation rollout. Here …
Cloud Cold War – No Nukes Please – Weapons of Mass Abstraction
Chris Hoff the most excellent theCUBE guest was inspired to write a post titled “The Cuban Cloud Missile Crisis…Weapons Of Mass Abstraction”. This was a topic that we discussed at length on SiliconANGLE.com’s theCUBE at VMWorld2012 – www.youtube.com/siliconangle As John Furrier, Dave Vellante …
Mobile Revenue Will Soar for Facebook, Millennial Media and Mobile Social Media Revolution
According to eMarketer report cited in the Wall Street Journal, the mobile revolution will be a lift for Facebook. Companies pioneering this effort like Millennial Media , Apple, and Google Admob will contribute to this new mobile platform trend. Despite worries about …
Dell Tweets Deal to Deliver STaaS – Storage as a Service Offering
A saw a tweet from @DellServices last week that indicates that Dell is now offering cloud storage services as “Dell Cloud Storage with Nirvanix,” which it lists as a “Storage as a Services (STaaS) offering designed to enable the integration of Internet …
Hunger Games, Olympics and Presidential Elections Thismoment.com is Demonstrating Social Media Works
Social Media is no joke. The recent Republican National Convention (RNC) is the latest example of how it works (see video at the end of this story). While many sceptics are down on social media startups these days, there is one …
Breaking Analysis: Data Infrastructure – New Wikibon Research and Survey on Storage Integration with VMware
New research is out from the leading big data and infrastructure firm Wikibon.org that is validating a new trend is emerging that I have been following. I call it Data Infrastructure. Data infrastructure is about the new forces that are driving the …
Big Data Hadoop Death Match – Again But – Hadoop Era is Different from Linux Era
Matt Asay, VP of big data cloud startup called Nodeable, writes a post today titled “Becoming Red Hat: Cloudera & Hortonworks Big Data Death Match”. He grabbed that headline from a link to our content on free research site Wikibon.org -thx Matt. …