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$1B annual run rate, 1,000+ vBlocks sold (cumulative?), with $1.3B investment, founded 2011. More: How's VCE been doin'?

three years ago 65-70 percent of Spiceworks users were from companies that had fewer than 100 employees. In the last 24 months, however, that has completely turned on its head, and now 75 percent of usage comes from companies with 100 employees or more. Specifically the two fastest growing segments are companies with 500-1,000 employees and companies with 1,000 employees and above. As of last month there were 13,000 installations with more than 1,000 devices, implying that 60-65 percent of enterprises in the world use Spiceworks for something.

It's all true, and yet it seems like a good idea still. More: Yahoo! 'won't screw Tumblr'? Then Tumblr will screw its balance sheet

If there was a common thread among everyone The Verge spoke with for this story, it was Samsung's brutal dominance: the Korean giant's own-sourced display and processor combined with an enormous marketing war chest make competing in Android extraordinarily difficult. --The beast known as Samsung

I love it when companies let you pay to stop showing ads: it gives you a good sense for how much each customer (each pair of "eyeballs") is worth. Here, $50/year. More: Yahoo gives Flickr a new face, a new app, and a new business model | Ars Technica

Watch over the next 2 years as the Big 4 of BI (IBM, Oracle, SAP, and Microstragy) battle distuption from well funded upstarts. Folks like SAS snd Terradata will have to pick sides. More: QLIK Rising: As DATA Soars, BMO Cheers New Analytics Approach

The engineer says for $7,500 a month, Amazon will guarantee they will be on dedicated hardware, and not just have the IP addresses segmented through the VPC. Noisy neighbors are usually only a problem for larger customers though, he says. … He considers Google to be a serious threat to AWS, but not Azure. "Anyone who thinks there is a ‘cloud war’ currently and AWS is seeing any type of real challenge is just fooling themselves.

It's expected to have a valuation of $1.4B. I love it when pure play software company IPO's because you get a peak at their financials and how they're run for a specific type of software. More: Tableau IPO'ing - Big DATA

“By starting with test and dev with virtualization, you could ensure that you had a high degree of success, gain your skills and then move on to infrastructure and finally tier-two apps. Then maybe three years later you got to business-critical apps. “Just as it was a big mistake to try to start virtualization with the most complex workloads, it is true for clouds too." –Ten years on: How did that cloud strategy pan out?

Local business owners take as a given that they need an ugly, slow, expensive and complicated point of sale system cluttering their counter. –Square unveils new iPad stand dubbed Square Stand The spread of iOS into retail/PoS is a great disruption story playing out right in front of us. The fact that they're called PoS's should have been the first clue.