Technology entrepreneurs and investors alike have long regarded commoditization as a dark and dangerous force, a destroyer of high-margin businesses, to be avoided at all costs. An exciting new class of… Read more »
Flash storage vendor SolidFire has raised $82 million as it rides the wave of excitement about storage performance over the past few years. The Boulder, Colorado–based company is one of a… Read more »
Violin Memory Chief Operating Officer Dixon Doll, Jr., resigned just weeks after the resignation of CTO Jonathan Goldrick and termination of CEO Don Basile. The company hopes new leadership can get… Read more »
Nimble Storage shares closed Friday at just under $34 a share, up nearly 62 percent from the opening day price of $21. On the whole, a pretty good day. Read more »
Did Twitter really leave a billion dollars on the table? Or was it smart? Why did Chegg crash and what makes Zulily IPO so hot? Those answers plus more pointers abut… Read more »
When it comes to flash memory, everyone’s buying and everyone’s for sale, apparently. Cisco says it will integrate Whiptail flash memory into its UCS servers. Read more »
This quarter we saw more signs of maturity in the cloud computing market, including a new version of the OpenStack standard, more consolidation of cloud computing companies, and a scandal that… Read more »
The usual suspects, Amazon and VMware made significant announcements in cloud in the third quarter, while Hadoop remains the talk of the town in big data. Emerging trends in software-defined networking… Read more »