Matt Weinberger

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The Cost of Bad Customer Service [Infographic]

It’s hard to put a dollar value on good customer service. But bad customer service will send a once-loyal customer to the competition, undermine a company’s reputation, and generally irritate and alienate people. But for those companies willing to take on the …

OpenStack’s Game: The Enemy’s Gate Is Down

NEWS By MATT WEINBERGER14 YEARS AGO

There’s this idea out there that OpenStack, the open source cloud computing platform project started by Rackspace Hosting and NASA and since taken up by over 150 other companies, is out to erode the market positions of proprietary-powered pioneers Amazon Web Services …

VMware Gets Into Cloud Consulting Services, Makes Benchmarking Acquisition

NEWS By MATT WEINBERGER14 YEARS AGO

VMware is the latest major technology market player to get into the cloud consultancy game with this week’s formation of VMware Accelerate Advisory Services, a new business group of former IT executives that aims to lend their expertise to CIOs seeking to make cloud …

Skybox Imaging Raises $70 Million To Take Hadoop To The Final Frontier

NEWS By MATT WEINBERGER14 YEARS AGO

Skybox Imaging, a fledgling services startup that’s building a business around applying big data analytics to satellite imagery and video, has raised $70 million in Series C funding from Canaan Partners and Norwest Venture Partners, bringing its overall funding to $91 million. But wait until …

Dell, Rackspace Build OpenStack, Big Data Service Partnerships

NEWS By MATT WEINBERGER14 YEARS AGO

Dell and Rackspace Hosting made announcements today that make partners a key part of their OpenStack and big data market plays. Dell’s announcement is the more far-reaching. The Dell Emerging Solutions Ecosystem is a partnership program designed to integrate hardware, software and services from …

Rackspace Puts OpenStack Where Its Mouth Is With New Cloud Services

NEWS By MATT WEINBERGER14 YEARS AGO

As we gear up for this week’s OpenStack Conference, Rackspace is betting its business on the OpenStack project with today’s announcement that the hosting provider is moving its flagship Cloud Servers offering onto a platform powered by the jewel of the open …

Dear Google Apps: Please Don’t Pivot and Prove Microsoft Correct

NEWS By MATT WEINBERGER14 YEARS AGO

Rumors are starting to surface that Google may be de-emphasizing its Google Apps enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) play for a renewed focus on its core search/advertising business, and a reallocation of resources and expertise towards social networking. If that’s true, “disruptive” is an …

Avnet: Customers Who Want VSPEX Need Services

NEWS By MATT WEINBERGER14 YEARS AGO

After today’s EMC VSPEX launch event, Avnet VP and GM Scott Look, along with Al Chin, VP of Sales and Marketing for Avnet reseller partner Dasher, sat down with Wikibon founder Dave Vellante in theCube to discuss how the channel actually helps a …

OpenStack Foundation Gets Funded With Help From AT&T, HP, IBM and More

NEWS By MATT WEINBERGER14 YEARS AGO

In a move to build buzz ahead of next week’s OpenStack Conference here in San Francisco, eighteen major technology companies have announced their intent to become paying members of the OpenStack Foundation, the open source cloud platform’s governing body. AT&T, Canonical, HP, IBM, …

Matt Weinberger

Latest from Matt Weinberger

The Cost of Bad Customer Service [Infographic]

OpenStack’s Game: The Enemy’s Gate Is Down

Skybox Imaging Raises $70 Million To Take Hadoop To The Final Frontier

Rackspace Puts OpenStack Where Its Mouth Is With New Cloud Services

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