silicon valley
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Digital technology
Fusion-io: flash io-memory, flash results, flash growth
Fusion-io isn’t just about flash io-memory technology, it’s about scaling up. On November 16, we paid the scale-up a visit. Fusion-io is the epitome of these successful technology companies as can be found almost only in the US and which make this kind of press trips so useful. Fusion-io: flash…
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Digital technology
Cloud computing: StorSimple battles against “cloud washing”
Cloud washing is just like greenwashing for cloud computing. On November 15, after Zscaler, we visited StorSimple, provider of Hybrid Cloud technology. Ursheet Parikh is one of the 2 co-founders and the CEO of StorSimple, a promising start-up operating in the storage domain, based in Santa Clara, Calif. Cloud computing:…
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digital marketing
Zscaler wants to be the Salesforce.com of Internet security!
On November 15, I was invited with a group of journalist to a press tour in the Silicon Valley (a sequel to our June 2010 press tour in the Valley). Our first presentation took place in Sunnyvale, Calif. at the main office of Zscaler, a ground-breaking cloud security provider, which…
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Digital technology
Arista brings cloud networking in data centre
Arista brings cloud networking in the data centre and increases performance 5 times for 10 times less power. On 3 June 2010 we had the opportunity to meet with some very important figures of the Silicon Valley in Menlo Park California. We had indeed a meeting with the people from Arista,…
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AI and Big Data
A new file data management system to support transactional Websites
Clustrix is a start-up which devised a new file data management system to support highly transactional Websites. Paul Mikesell, CEO and co-founder of Clustrix explained that his aim was to help “Web businesses spend less time working on their infrastructure, and spend all their time trying to make their site better…
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Digital technology
Blade Network Technologies: The network as a business enabler
To BNT, the network isn’t just about pipes; it’s a true business enabler. On June 3rd, 2010, at the end of our press trip in Silicon Valley, we have had the opportunity to meet with Vikram Mehta, President and CEO of Blade Network Technologies (BNT), a four-year-old company dedicated to…
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Web, Internet and the Economy
8 lessons I have learnt from Silicon Valley entrepreneurs
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs can teach us a few things. I summed it all up in 8 short lessons. I have just come back from a week spent in Silicon Valley, during which I was able to have meetings – as part of a press tour – with various start-ups in the areas…
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Marketing & Innovation
It’s never been so easy for a start-up to get started on a very low budget
On June 2nd, 2010 we had the opportunity to meet with Howard Greenfield, president ofGO associates, a global consulting firm that helps companies bring technology to the market place. Howard Greenfield is also EIR (i.e. Executive In Residence) at the plug and play Tech center, a unique facility in Sunnyvale…
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