Arista shares don’t disappoint on strong opening day
Arista’s opening day went smoothly despite a bizarre lawsuit lodged against it by one of its co-founders. Shares closed up 27.9 percent from their open at $43.
EMC buys secret chip maker DSSD
Updated: The storage leader is buying the Andy Bechtolsheim-backed DSSD, which will become part of EMC’s emerging technology unit.
Patterns & fallacies: Why they have no place in my Silicon Valley
If history has taught us anything, then the line between patterns and fallacies is nearly invisible. In a place where we talk about inventing the future, the patterns (or fallacies) of the past can prove to be counterproductive and create unnecessary biases.
Near misses, at best, in data center interconnection
Data centers have been hobbled by using optical interconnections designed and optimized for telecom applications, but what’s next for interconnect technology designed for scale out computing?
Berlin startup NumberFour raises $38M from Index, Jerry Yang, Andy Bechtolsheim
Serial entrepreneur Marco Boerries wants to provide well-designed apps for the small businesses of the world, and has raised a $38 million round from well-known investors to do it.
Heck yeah! Facebook’s Open Compute Project is making an open source switch
Not content with open sourcing the server and storage hardware inside data centers, Facebook’s Open Compute Project has teamed up with others to build an open source top of rack switch. Here’s why it matters.
Meet DSSD, Andy Bechtolsheim’s secret chip startup for big data
The solution for better and faster storage may lie in DSSD, a stealthy chip startup backed by Andreas von Bechtolsheim, that counts several members of the Sun ZFS team as founders.
Intel: We’ve always been serious about microservers. No, really
Intel almost can’t bring itself to call the market for wimpy cores a real market, but since its customers seem to really want them the chip giant is trying to offer products for microservers. But the strain is clear, as is the looming competition from ARM.
Hotshot Nebula gets $25M for plug-and-play OpenStack clouds
Nebula CEO and co-founder Chris Kemp says the OpenStack cloud company will use its new-found money to hire engineers, expand its private beta and build out its new Menlo Park, CA headquarters. Comcast Ventures led the $25 million Series B round.
When it comes to startups timing really is everything
When it comes to startups, a lot is made of startup’s founders, the market opportunities, its advisers and the team. Of course, there is chest thumping around investors and dollars raised. Yes, those are important issues, but let’s not forget that timing is everything.