" Storage and networking companies, cloud technologies, "are changing the way the world works.
Advanced data center and networking companies like Equinix would love to be the place where multi-cloud services live.
Instead, they will build on the work of AOL, Palm and the wireless networking and phone companies.
Yet over the past 18 months, hope has sprung eternal amongst IT and Internet venture investors driven largely by a daily barrage of blog and news headlines covering the exponential growth and dramatic returns prospects of a small handful of social networking and gaming companies.
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The macroeconomic uncertainty surrounding the Euro debt crisis has forced businesses to cut spending on network infrastructure, in turn affecting the revenues and profits of most networking companies including Alcatel-Lucent and Juniper Networks.
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Brilliant has also been an early-stage chief executive of several networking and Internet companies.
In a prior piece for FORBES, I indicated that using the two-stage KeyStone Compact developed at the Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, Facebook and similar social networking companies are squarely positioned in the high-growth quadrant.
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IP, such as Skype and Vonage, or networking companies such as Cisco (especially once fast, wireless internet access has become ubiquitous and totally reliable).
In the early 2000, the US experience similar problems with dot-com, networking, and telecom companies though not of the same nature and magnitude.
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It has been left behind in hot areas such as search and social networking by younger companies, some of which love to thumb their noses at their older rival.
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Power companies and networking startups have spent years touting a technology called broadband-over-power lines, or BPL. In those systems, the utility sends a data signal across existing wires at a much higher frequency than electricity, so the two signals don't interfere.
High valuations for social networking and e-commerce companies are seen as out of whack with revenue growth figures and money losing or barely profitable operations.
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") IBM, for its part, has partnered with networking companies Juniper and Brocade to resell their hardware to its data center customers. (See: "IBM's Neutral Networking Play.
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While Ms. Mayer has continued to engage in early-stage deal talks with a wide range of video, social-networking and advertising-technology companies, according to people familiar with the talks, to date, she only has bought small companies for their engineering and product-management talent.
But she says the company now should be able to growing more in line with the markets, after pruning low-margin PCs and shifting focus to corporate PC upgrades and adding Wyse, while also acquiring companies in storage, networking, software and services.
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Rob Tarkoff is the president and chief executive of Lithium Technologies, which advises companies on using social networking tools and technologies to reach their customers.
The first products, to be released in the second and third quarter of this year, will include Ethernet and phone line networking kits, the companies said in a statement.
While she has continued to engage in early-stage deal talks with a wide range of video, social-networking, and advertising-technology companies, according to people familiar with the talks, to date, she has bought only small companies for their engineering and product-management talent.
To prove the feasibility of the technique, Kapela and Pilosov, both owners of small networking companies, collaborated with conference organizers to reroute all of Defcon's Los Vegas Internet traffic through Pilosov's company servers in New York.
The strength of the combined company would put significant pressure on other companies in the telecom and networking-equipment space, including Ericsson (nasdaq: ERICY - news - people ), Siemens (nyse: SI - news - people ) and Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ).
In any given month 300 reps from outside companies pass through for meetings and networking.
There were particularly severe issues for companies making disk drives and optical networking components, but the impact was widespread.
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Later, he turned to doing more deals among emerging tech companies: mobile gaming and social networking (Mauj) and Internet (Travelguru, TutorVista and Shaadi).
Ando's comments suggest that the early adopter phase of home networking is over, and that consumer electronics companies like Sony and others are going to start pushing networks for the home in a big way.
At that time, the government swooped in with relevant rules, essentially telling companies like the social networking and gaming portal Tencent that customer use of QQ coins, or similar virtual currencies, to facilitate certain transactions was starting to look a lot like traditional banking activities.
Lucent and Nortel were perhaps quicker to respond because American companies have led the way in exploiting the Internet and data-networking technologies.
The use of flash memory enables social networking companies such as Facebook to retain acceptable response to traffic-heavy social networking and is behind a great many new cloud based services.
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Social networking is spreading out of schools and colleges into companies, big and small, and as that happens the boundary between the personal and the professional is being blurred.
Visible Technologies, FMS and StreamBase, all companies that provide products that analyze the massive amount of data flowing out of social networking and communication sites, all found spots in the In-Q-Tel portfolio.
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