Silicon Valley PR

04/26/2024

Since 2005, we have been focused on data infrastructure companies and worked with close to 100 of them. With AI in the picture, we need to make sure the infrastructure is ready, so here we are, more focused than ever and more needed than ever to provide PR support. "With only a minimal boost from AI, Gartner estimates enterprises spent $500 billion globally on cloud infrastructure and services in 2023. This year, the analyst firm expects cloud spend to approach $700 billion, as generative AI infrastructure investments help to push total IT spend to over $5 trillion."

Sourcing the power to feed large language models is a growing concern as AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud embark on a data center building boom.

03/25/2024

“The largest technology companies are diving deep into cloud computing and subscriptions, as well as cloud cybersecurity and AI-powered cloud products.” https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/2024/the-100-hottest-cloud-computing-companies-of-2024

11/17/2023

News at SC23 this week from Vcinity and Hammerspace: https://blocksandfiles.com/2023/11/13/hammerspace-using-vcinity-tech-as-remote-data-delivery-and-access-pump/

Large scale data orchestrator Hammerspace is using Vcinity’s high-speed remote data movement technology to overcome data gravity. VCinity’s software moves chunks of data, using remote direct memory access (RDMA) inside IP packets, and enables real-time compute on data thousands of miles away. It...

11/17/2023

Tomorrow is the last day! Please vote if you recognize any of the startups here or if you like what challenges they solve. While some like our client Datamotive, who is a finalist in both the Cloud and Storage categories, are newer than others, do your homework and decide. There is a lot of cool stuff out there.

Tech Trailblazers Awards 2023 Shortlists Award Categories News Posted by Jon Howell  |   03/11/2023 Today is the day that the Tech Trailblazers Awards has revealed its 2023 shortlists of 12th edition finalists. The 16 categories have been reduced to just the top entrants, determined by a panel of ...

08/31/2023

We represented two clients at VMware Explore Vegas 2023, ControlUp and Datamotive. Pleased to say that ControlUp won best of show while earlier-stage startup Datamotive announced that it has joined the VMware Technology Alliance Partner Program on the heels of its recent series A funding round. https://www.techtarget.com/searchvmware/photostory/366549540/Winners-of-the-Best-of-VMware-Explore-Awards/7/Best-of-VMware-Explore-2023-Awards-Best-of-Show-winner

The Best of Show winner represents the best of the best for this year's awards.

06/20/2023

Startup PR, specifically tech startup PR, is not the “glamorous” PR job that TV shows such as Succession portray. It’s a lot of work in the background most of the time. Congrats, Georgiana Comsa and everybody else who made the list (there is a real organization behind this award and there is a methodology explained here, so it’s legit). https://lnkd.in/e3STsWqp

The latest Propel 100 is our carefully curated list of PR pros leading the industry's conversation, sparking innovation, delivering successful PR results for startups, and elevating startup communities..

05/10/2023

The one about Santa who walked into a bar all alone... https://www.linkedin.com/posts/georgianacomsa_santa-walked-into-a-bar-activity-7062092002904977409-POKy?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

02/14/2023

Congrats to clients and friends on this list! It's always good to see what a top channel publication such as CRN considers "cool" in cloud storage, and this is the time every year when we find out. https://www.crn.com/news/storage/the-20-coolest-cloud-storage-companies-of-the-2023-cloud-100/

As part of CRN’s 2023 Cloud 100, these 20 cloud storage vendors have come up with innovative ways to not only store data but keep it safe.

01/18/2023

For those watching the space, here is some news that is quite a big deal, especially in 2023. The total funding for Cloudian is now $233 million: https://cloudian.com/press/cloudian-raises-60m-in-funding/.

01/12/2023

Listen to this if you are heading to a conference this year - many on a budget, especially in 2023 - and you are looking for all of the resources and ideas you could use: http://siliconvalleypr.com/2022/11/conference-pr/.

12/21/2022

Useful VentureBeat piece, especially these days with so many layoffs, and this is the time for "IT and HR need to do more policy enforcement to avoid potential harm from departing or former employees." There are ways. For example, per Steve Wallo of Vcinity, “Since data and applications don’t need to be geographically co-located, you can launch applications in the cloud, but keep the data that the application needs on-prem." https://lnkd.in/ghwEzAFW

Concerned about the challenge of compliance with the alphabet soup of global data privacy laws? Read on for analysis and strategies.

12/20/2022

Just announced last week: https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/16/xen_4_17_hyperlaunch/.

More ways to boot, with less overhead – just what's needed in the embedded market