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Short Video Clip: Pat Gelsinger Talks About Intel vs EMC Culture – EMC is More Customer Focused
Pat Gelsinger, ex Intel 30 year vet now the President and COO of EMC, sat down with me and Dave Vellante at SAP Sapphire to talk tech and what EMC is doing at SAP Sapphire. Here in this clip Mark Rizzn Hopkins and Michael Sean Wright asked Pat to followup on Joe Tucci’s comments about ...
Analysis: Enterprise Wars – SAP Buys Sybase – Good Move For SAP
SAP’s $5.8B acquisition of Sybase is being touted by many in the news media as a desperate act by a firm in trouble who overpaid for a legacy asset. Here at SiliconAngle we’ve been following the disruptive trends and this deal makes sense. A new world has emerged (well documented here at SiliconANGLE.com) and it’s ...
Study Shows Private Clouds More Cost Effective Than Public Clouds
According to Wikibon, an industry analyst research firm, a new study reveals that private clouds are more cost effective than public clouds. This is interesting because the debate has been raging on about public and private clouds for months. Although the hype of public clouds have been high there hasn’t been much action in term ...
Cloud & Storage Blowout – Chowda, SiliconANGLE, The Cube, and EMC World – Shipping Up To Boston
UPDATE: John tweeted out just before he got onto the plane for Boston #emcworld Sox/Yankees Sunday at fenway. 2 tix to best comment my Chowda/TheCube post (http://bit.ly/aSSAAk) or RT it. To clarify, retweet out the line above, make sure you include the #EMCworld hashtag, and leave an impressive comment here on the site, and the ...
Death Of The Netbook? Apple Sells 1 Million iPads – 30% Estimated To Be 3G; New User Experience Very Compelling
Apple just announced that they have sold over 1 million iPads. I hope this data released by Apple and validated by consumers serves as a wake up call for Intel to start innovating fast because the much under-marketed Netbook initiatives are all but toast. Intel does have a consumer marketing team and they need to ...
Steve Jobs Memo: Thoughts on Flash (Why Apple Doesn’t Use Flash)
Apple put out a release by the CEO Steve Jobs on his thoughts on Flash. Basically it’s a slam on Adobe. Here are some of the highlights from Steve’s statement: Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big ...
Daily Show Video: Apple Busting Down Doors WTF Is Going On
Ever since Gizmodo broke the news of the new iPhone 4 which was acquired illegally, the entire iPhone 4 thing has been a disaster. Everything went wrong with it. My Angle: Gizmodo never should have bought stolen goods, Apple never should have broken down their doors, the blogger never should have participated in this scheme, ...
C-Squared – Controversy & Creativity; Is The Theme For Apple Worldwide Developers Conference Kicks Off June 7 in San Francisco
Apple is announcing the dates for their Worldwide Developer Confernence – June 7th in San Francisco. This should be a ton of fun given all the creativity around the iPad and all the market success of the iPhone. Of course on the heels of the most amazing financial quarter of corporate performance in the company’s ...
#Datacenter #Metrics – Is 70 Data Center Performance Metrics Enough?
There is a movement in the datacenter circles to rethink metrics. What are the right metrics for performance? The industry is moving towards heavily towards Application Performance oriented metrics for better business visibility into their Data Centers and away from traditional “up / down status” reporting. Faster troubleshooting is increasingly important especially as companies begin ...
Moving Up The Stack – VMWare and Salesforce.com Team Up for Turn Key Cloud Applications as a Service
Today, VMWare and Salesforce.com teamed up to announce VMforce an enterprise Java cloud. In an effort to productize general-purpose cloud computing services VMware and Salesforces produce a joint product called VMforce. The new solution and offering is a loud-based service called VMforce for running Java applications and is the combination of a server virtualization player ...