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Breaking News: Dark Clouds – Startup Cirtas Systems Cutting Staff by 75% in Major Pivot
I am getting reports that cloud startup Cirtas is cutting almost 75% of their company in what appears to be a major pivot. According to a tweet by Cirtas employee Dave Graham, he tweeted the following: “well, the waiting is over. as of 3pm TODAY, i, along with 20 others are no longer employed by ...
Preparing for IPO Jive Software Buys Startup Proximal Labs – Forms Big Data Dream Team
On the heals of the news that Cloudera is extending their lead in Hadoop, a Cloudera Labs startup gets bought by pre-IPO startup Jive Software. Jive Software, located in Palo Alto California, is announcing a big data technology acquisition of unknown startup Proximal Labs. Proximal Labs was founded by David Gutelius, Lance Riedel, and Nigel ...
Nirvanix Takes the Cloud to Hollywood
Cloud adoption keeps spreading from industry to industry. Just as we wrapped SNW with the Flash Cube last week in Santa Clara—where cloud was an increasingly hot topic of discussion—today we turned our attention to the annual NAB Show in Vegas, where “cloud storage” kicked off the show in high gear. Nirvanix, which has been ...
The Wall Street Angle – Watch Our Wall Street Journal – Week in Review
After looking at the demographics of our audience, the types of content sharing, it’s social distribution, and finally based upon requests from our audience, I am introducing an experiment here at SiliconANGLE called the Wall Street Angle or (WSA). This will be a new focus and Angle section for us. Since this is new we’ll ...
Facebook Building Their Own DataCenter – Open Source & Programmable Infrastructure
Facebook announced that they are building their own datacenter and hardware products from the ground up. This includes building their own servers, storage, and infrastructure that complements their “home grown” approach to their software. Facebook is now scaling around 600 million users which includes over 100 million mobile users. This move is a notice to ...
Cisco Datacenter Cloud MegaLaunch – Bonus: Partner Blog Battle Scorecard Winners and Losers
I’ve been reading the coverage of the massive Cisco datacenter cloud sweeping product announcements. It is chock full of details. If you want a quick summary of the announcements here are some great links. The Wikibon Project, the open analyst site, has a detailed blog post, a detailed community “open” research note, and video commentary ...
Wall Street Journal Doesn’t Get Facebook, Slams Fusion-io’s IPO, Gets Story Wrong
SiliconANGLE sometimes feels a little like Charlie Sheen – “the truth seeker”. Today was one of those days. The Wall Street Journal put out a story that was totally clueless about the technology infrastructure market. Specifically the writer Peter Gallagher of VentureOne’s group. We have to establish the correct angle on Facebook and Fusion-io. Today, ...
HP On M&A Spree For Big Data – First Up Vertica – All About Information Infrastructure Play – Data
HP is on a big M&A buying spree in Big Data or information infrastructure. According to my sources close to HP, they are going to go on a massive buying spree. Great news for startups in the data field which we created and highlighted on SiliconANGLE.tv at the O’Reilly Strata conference. This week we saw ...
HP New Strategic Plan – Cloud Meets Big Data, Consumerization of Enterprise
The SiliconANGLE and Wikibon teams are in town this week to go deep and cover HP’s new public unveiling of their strategy. Not only will we cover the news but we’ll go deep. So stay tuned here on SiliconANGLE.com and Wikibon.org for the complete coverage. HP’s last decade has been marked by two high profile ...
Cloud & Mobile Data Explosion Changing Data Warehouse Market
We are seeing a major transformation in the cloud and data market that is forcing traditional enterprise infrastructures to rethink their “data strategies” or “data warehouse” plans. This “Big Data” explosion” is being driven by Internet giants such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, Bit.ly, LinkedIn, etc., and startups such as Cloudera, ClickFox, Membase, Karmasphere, and many ...
