10 posts and columns on Diane Greene

Networking Start-Up Nicira Hires New VP of Sales From Riverbed

in News on April 23 at 2:18 pm PT

The once secretive start-up continues its impressive round of executive staffing.
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Networking Start-Up Nicira Wants to Mess Up Cisco and Juniper’s Business

in News on February 5 at 8:59 pm PT

Watch out Cisco, Juniper and other networking vendors. Your business model is about to get disrupted by Nicira, which is coming out of stealth mode today.
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News Byte

VMWare Co-Founder Diane Greene Joins Google’s Board

in News on January 12 at 3:02 pm PT

Search giant Google said today it had appointed Diane B. Greene to its board of directors. Greene, 56, is a co-founder of VMWare and took that company public in 2007. She was its CEO and president for 10 years ending 2008, and was executive vice president at EMC, which partially owns VMWare. She also sits on the board of Intuit.

Cisco Enterprise VP Alan Cohen Joins Stealthy Start-Up Nicira

in News on October 10, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

The networking giant that’s lately been known for rebuilding itself and cutting its headcount is losing a senior executive to the stealth networking start-up Nicira.
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Juniper Engineering VP Joins Stealth Networking Start-Up Nicira

in Enterprise on January 20, 2011 at 9:47 am PT

Juniper loses Rob Enns to the Andreessen Horowitz-backed start-up that aims to “virtualize the network.”

The Naked VC: Tim Draper Unveils His Investing Secrets for Astia

in News on November 21, 2008 at 7:27 pm PT

Last night, I was the master of ceremonies, as I have been for several years, at the laudable annual Astia Awards Dinner, which celebrated venture firms that support women-led companies. And VC Tim Draper really went above and beyond in showing–quite literally–his support.

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VMware Closes Under $40 for First Time Ever

in News on July 9, 2008 at 6:32 pm PT

Investors continued to shed VMware (VMW) shares today in the wake of yesterday’s firing of CEO Diane Greene and a reduction in the company’s 2008 outlook. The company, which went public August 13, 2007, at $29 a share, immediately went soaring higher, trading as high as $125.25 on an intra-day basis last Halloween.

VMware: The Agony of Defeat

in News on July 8, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

VMware: A Global Leader in Wealth Vaporization Solutions

in News on July 8, 2008 at 8:13 am PT

VMware (VMW), whose share price set records last year by spiking more than 300 percent in the months following its IPO, offered a bit of perspective on the exuberance with which that offering was met today, delivering a brace of ugly announcements.