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For Valley Engineers, Big Data and Networking Start-Ups Are Still Sexy

Consumer companies may be hot among investors, but big data and networking start-ups are hotter still to Valley engineering talent, according to a recent LinkedIn report. The study claims that analytics firms and networking start-ups like Cloudera and Arista Networks are garnering the most engineering mindshare. The study took into account the LinkedIn activity of more than 240,000 Bay Area engineers from January through March.

IBM’s Latest Hardware Aims to Make Less Work for IT Shops

What’s the biggest expense in owning a server? All the labor that goes into setting it up and running it over time. IBM’s latest system aims to cut those costs by as much as one-third.
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Intel’s Romley Chip Is Good News for Storage Players EMC and NetApp

But maybe not so much for Intel itself, Deutsche Bank analyst Chris Whitmore argues.
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Dell to Acquire Virtual Desktop Player Wyse Technology

Virtual desktops are in, and Wyse is the company that makes more of them than any other.
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Flash Start-Up Violin Poaches VP From VMware

Flash Madness Club member Violin Memory has tapped Narayan Venkat as its VP of product management.
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BlueStacks’ Android-on-Windows App Hits Beta

The start-up says the code is in pretty good shape, though it is still figuring out how much it will charge consumers.
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When Office Is in the Cloud and on a Tablet, Is It Really Office?

Microsoft says, yes it is, and no, you can’t run it that way.
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Networking Start-Up Nicira Wants to Mess Up Cisco and Juniper’s Business

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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VMware Q3 Profit More Than Doubled on Wide Growth in Demand

VMware Inc.’s third-quarter earnings more than doubled on demand growth across its products, as the software maker continued to position itself as a provider of key technology for cloud computing.

BlueStacks Ready to Test Its Android-on-Windows Software

The start-up says it is ready with an alpha version of its software, which lets many Android apps run on Windows PCs.
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Google’s Chrome OS: “It Just Works”

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