One of today's fresh tech IPOs is Violin Memory (VMEM), a Silicon Valley maker of flash-memory storage systems. But Violin's IPO wasn't anything like the FireEye (EYE) and Rocket

Speaking with CloudPhysics Founder and CEO John Blumenthal, you get the sense that the modern data center, which supplies all that cloud-computing power, is a total mess.

Yes, 11,000 tech writers have already weighed in on the deal proposed by Canadian firm Fairfax Financial to take wireless device and services company Blackberry private for $9 per

The financial mavens are taking notice of the tech IPO market. They're worried, 'cause it's gotten too hot. On Friday, two tech IPOs covered here, Rocket Fuel (FUEL) and

FireEye (FEYE) and Rocket Fuel (FUEL) will be the most newly minted public technology companies after they priced Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) last night and hit the market in

SAN FRANCISCO -- Michelangelo "Mike" Volpi, the former Cisco Systems executive who is now a venture partner with Index Ventures, sat across from me in the comfy chairs of

Do people at sports stadiums actually watch the game anymore? Connectivity and social networking is becoming a more integral part of the live sports experience, and stadium owners and

Verizon's $130 billion acquisition of Vodafone's Verizon Wireless stake last week marked the biggest deal in communications history. What's even more interesting is the biggest bond financing in corporate

BOZEMAN, MT -- Don't know Greg Gianforte? You should. Gianforte, a former Bell Labs engineer, started several technology companies on the East Coast before lighting out for the mountains

The Software Defined Networking (SDN) market just got more complicated. Nothing demonstrates that more than the rumors floating around the alleged declining value of private startup Big Switch. Our

The Tuesday after Labor Day often brings lots of deals. Sometimes the market likes them, sometimes the market hates them. This morning we learned that Microsoft (MSFT) is ponying

LAS VEGAS -- ITEXPO -- Life as an entrepreneur or a startup worker can be tough and challenging, sometimes seemingly up against all odds. So what keeps people going?

VMWorld, for those of you not in the know, is where ever-powerful virtualization technology company VMware (VMW) shows off its stuff, along with many partners (and many parties). This

Many veterans of the networking technology market will recognize the name Jonathan Reeves. A long-time entrepreneur with engineering roots dating back to General Datacomm in the early 1990s, Reeves

Canadian security company AFORE Solutions thinks it has a new security approach to prevent insiders such as former NSA analyst Edward Snowden from sneaking off with sensitive data.

Yesterday I wrote about the complacency about NSA data surveillance. Meanwhile, every day, we find out that the NSA surveillance program ran deeper and wider than anybody imagined. It

"When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty,"

There's this thing called Software Defined Networking (SDN) generating quite a lot of noise in the networking technology market right now. PR and marketing people love new buzzwords and

Yesterday I covered the Rocket Fuel IPO filing. The digital marketing analysis firm plans to raise up to $100 million going public. Even more insightful are the many digital

Internet ad networks are hot. Data science is hot. Therefore, Rocket Fuel, the company that combines ad networks and data science, can go public. And on Friday it filed

Shares of Cisco (CSCO) opened down sharply this morning, dropping nearly 7% at the market open, following an earnings report that delivered satisfactory earnings but scared investors with the

A big theme of the Rayno Report is innovation in the connected world. That is, how do our network connections create value. We have seen this over time with

I've been out and about gathering opinions on Blackberry (BBRY), the handset and mobile communications company that is trying to find a buyer. The investment and trading community doesn't

So Blackberry Ltd. (BBRY) has formed an special committee to explore strategic options. Maybe they need an extra-special committee.This morning BlackBerry Ltd. (BBRY) announced these moves to extract shareholder