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Enterprise IT
Insights about enterprise technology, including sectors such as big data, security, DevOps, cloud computing and open-source technology.
The Real Story Behind the Cloud Price War
As part of my opening keynote March 31 at Cloud Connect in Las Vegas, I summarized the latest moves in cloud computing, including the recent price cut…
SlideShare: Tapping the Cloud to More Quickly Deliver IT Services (and Lessons from Netflix)
There is a huge transformation going on in enterprise IT at the moment. Decades-old companies are discovering that IT–which used to be a small s…
Schmoozing at Strata–Photo Gallery
Entrepreneurs, CIOs, analysts, investors, data scientists and other big-data thought leaders gathered at Parcel 104 restaurant in Santa Clara in Febru…
Who Cares About Hybrid Cloud? In a Disaster, You Should
With the recent unveiling of Cisco InterCloud, Cisco and a select group of cloud service providers and technology partners have taken a significant st…
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 univ…
Cold Pizza and AWS: Adrian Cockcroft Joins Battery from Netflix
A big part of being a VC is recruiting. I spend a lot of time looking for people to join companies I’ve invested in, and I also spend a lot of time l…
The Sony Hack: We’ve Seen This Movie Before, and It’s About More than Malware
Are we missing the big picture, again, in the fervor around the Sony hack? It makes a great scene, you can picture it in a movie: Employees showing up…
The Changing Face of Cyber Crime
Cyber-crime used to be reserved for top-secret, state-sponsored operations; today it regularly targets everyday businesses and has become a major drai…
The Next Phase of Networking Evolution: Cumulus Networks and the Linux Revolution
Sometimes you just know. Rarely do you meet entrepreneurs whose expertise is so great, vision so clear, and passion so strong that you leave the first…