In the second half of Alex Benik’s “Smart People on Ice” segment with JR Rivers and Nolan Leake, the co-founders of Cumulus Networks discuss the company’s genesis, the current ecosystem th…
Smart People on Ice: JR Rivers and Nolan Leake On Founding Cumulus Networks
In Alex Benik’s latest “Smart People on Ice” segment he sits down with JR Rivers and Nolan Leake, the co-founders of Cumulus Networks. In the video, Rivers and Leake share stories about their early ca…
Smart People on Ice: Raj Patel, Part Two–Powering Pinterest
In the second half of Alex Benik’s “Smart People on Ice” interview with Raj Patel, Raj gives a behind-the-scenes look at technology powering Pinterest. Founded in 2010, Pinterest now hosts more than 3…
Smart People on Ice: Raj Patel of Pinterest Talks Being a Perpetual Student of Technology
In this week’s “Smart People on Ice” video, host Alex Benik sits down with Raj Patel, the head of cloud engineering at Pinterest to discuss his career in tech. Spanning companies such as Pacific…
Smart People on Ice: Shapiro, Leventhal, Part Two–What Fosters True Innovation and Risk-Taking in Tech
In part two of Alex Benik’s “Smart People on Ice” video with Mike Shapiro and Adam Leventhal, the two discuss the culture of innovation at their former employer, Sun Microsystems, an…
Moving Beyond “Perimeter” Security to Thwart Hackers
Online security breaches are all over the news today—giant companies ranging from Target to eBay have been hacked. It proves that so-called “perimeter” security, or trying to set up firewalls to preve…
Smart People on Ice: Mike Shapiro and Adam Leventhal on their Early Days at Sun Microsystems
Alex Benik’s latest “Smart People on Ice” video interview is a double feature: Alex chats with both Mike Shapiro, co-founder of DSSD and vice president of software engineering at EMC/DSSD, as well as …
Smart People on Ice: Adam Jacob on Open Source and Chef, Part 2
Here’s the second half of Alex Benik’s “Smart People on Ice” interview with Adam Jacob, a co-founder and CTO of IT-automation company Chef. Alex and Adam continue their discuss…
Smart People on Ice: Adam Jacob, the Dalai Lama of DevOps
Today we debut a new video feature on Powered by Battery called “Smart People on Ice”. The phrase is a line from the 1985 movie Real Genius, the classic comedy which chronicled the exploit…
Bare Metal Networking Goes Mainstream
As an investor in Cumulus Networks*, I often give the company’s elevator pitch to technologists and networking folks I meet on my travels. Almost universally the reaction is very positive. People quic…