Silicon Valley Press tour
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Marketing & Innovation
Sujal Patel: EMC shares a joint ambition with Isilon on storage
EMC has just taken over Isilon and both businesses share a common understanding of where the storage business is going. On November 17, as part of our November US press tour, we went outside of Silicon Valley. We took an early morning flight to Seattle to meet with the representatives…
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Digital technology
Joyent enables service providers to deploy a new Cloud in a few weeks
To deploy a new cloud can be time-consuming. With Joyent, things may change greatly for service providers. The last visit of our November press tour in Silicon Valley took place in downtown San Francisco, with Joyent, an innovative company dedicated to Cloud deployments. Joyent is now planning to deploy in…
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Digital technology
Blade Network Technologies and IBM: plans for the future
Back in June 2010, we visited Blade Network Technologies, a Nortel spin-off which was doing exceptionally well in the data centre business by providing networking infrastructure and services within the data centre. Blade Network Technologies and IBM: plans for the future A concept Vikram Mehta had described as being the…
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Marketing & Innovation
Terry Cunningham of i365 reinvents the VAR business
Our 4th visit of innovative companies in Silicon Valley was devoted to i365, a Seagate company. The presentation was delivered by Terry Cunningham, President and GM of i365, George Hoenig, head of products and services and Valerie Fawzi, head of Marketing. The topic was the reinvention of the VAR business.…
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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 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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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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