Daily Links 10/19/2012: SAP TechEd wrap; Cloudforce NYC

Tom Paine


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Early SAP HANA customers separate reality from the hype (Computerworld)

SAP TechEd wrap (Dennis Howlett/Enterprise Irregulars via ZDNet)

Cloudforce NYC Brings New Analytics to Marketing Cloud (Denis Pombriant/Enterprise Irregulars)

The Cloud is Gospel at Cloudforce 2012 (PC Magazine)

Despite Legal Risks, FundersClub Raises Massive $6M Seed Round To Turn The Crowd Into Venture Capitalists (TechCrunch)
FundersClub's founders have Penn/Wharton backgrounds and First Round Capital is among its seed investors.

Man defrauded Philly-based Checkpoint Systems of $5.5M: police (CityNews.ca)


New York startups can compete to get a fiber connection (Gigaom)
Something Comcast should try in Philly.

Verizon predicts it will add 150,000-plus FiOS TV subscribers in Q4 2012 (FierceCable)



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Daily Links 10/16/2012: SAPTeched 2012, SCTE Cable-Tec Expo kick off

The Enterprise: I’m Not Sexy And I Know It (TechCrunch)
Very good article on current limitations of the Cloud in the enterprise.

After Larry Ellison Keynote, I Can’t Wait For SAPTeched 2012, Las Vegas (Vijay Vijayasankar/Vijay's thoughts on all things big and small)

SAP puts its HANA in-memory database on Amazon Web Services (Computerworld)


SAP Pumps Up Mobile Analytics Power (Information Week)

Edison data center company attracts $90M investment from venture group (NJBiz)

Cable-Tec Expo: Motorola Transcoder Spits 3 Billion Pixels Per Second
Vendor Claims GT-3 Provides 10 Times Density of Server-Based Transcoders (Multichannel News)

Boxee Looks to Reinvent Itself with Cloud-Based DVR Box (All Things D)

Comcast trademarks DEEPDRIVE, AIRBASE for network DVR product (FierceCable)



Sprint Said Not to Plan Buying Clearwire After Softbank Deal (Bloomberg)

Uber quietly shutting down taxis in New York after fight with regulators, cabbies say (The Verge)

Deacom Invests in Mid-Tier Process Manufacturing
(PR Newswire)

PHD Virtual Announces Record Revenue Growth With 40 Percent Increase Year Over Year (Business Wire)
Also adds to management team and board.



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