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CrowdStrike Sets New CIO

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Irvine-based security software developer CrowdStrike announced this morning that it has named Colin Black as its new Chief Information Officer. Black was previously CIO of Kratos Defense and Security, and also had served at Cymer and Mindspeed Technologies. CrowdStrike said Black will focus on infrastructure expansion of its platform.

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Corent Adds Advisor

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Aliso Viejo-based Corent Technology , which develops software that makes it easy for companies to convert their legacy applications into software-as-a-service, has added a new advisor, the firm said this week. Corent said it has added Mario Leone, former CIO of Ingram Micro, FIAT, Federal-Mogul and Dow Chemical, as an advisor.

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Mature Companies Can Learn Many Things From Startups

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Microsoft spent a huge amount of time and money with software developers for applications, and with hardware manufacturers to support multiple PC platforms. Now CIOs, as well as consumers, buy their next computer based largely on an image set by marketing. That’s real viral marketing.

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How Bill Gates Was A Role Model For New Entrepreneurs

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Microsoft spent a huge amount of time and money with software developers for applications, and with hardware manufacturers to support multiple PC platforms. Now CIOs, as well as consumers, buy their next computer based largely on an image set by marketing. That’s real viral marketing.

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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

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We have the best engineers in the world here at MetaCloud, the former cloud engineering team at Ticketmaster, which operates your cloud every day, deploys software updates, and gives you the economic performance of the cloud, but where you data is always under control and on your premises. Sean Lynch: I think they''re hunting for efficiency.

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Interview with David Loo, CEO and Founder of Perspectium

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For today's interview, we sat down and spoke with David Loo , the founder and CEO of Perspectium (www.perspectium.com), a startup which is developing service management applications designed to help connect different, enterprise service management software products together. Perspectium recently raised a funding round from TVC Capital.

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How Cloudvirga Wants To Disrupt The Slow, Antiquated Mortgage Industry

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So, instead of just dealing with the consumer experience, we decided to tackle the problem head on and build an entire platform, and intelligent mortgage platform. For them to get to date with the times, to automate and build a platform, they'd have to reinvent and re-engineer their entire platform. It's plan and simple.

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