A global land grab for dominance in the public cloud. The rise of OpenStack as a datacenter-automation tool. SaaS investment soaring as enterprises lo…
Enterprise IT
Insights about enterprise technology, including sectors such as big data, security, DevOps, cloud computing and open-source technology.
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 Geniu…
Geek Alert: Battery Sponsors SDN Meetup
Battery recently sponsored a meet-up on the Stanford University campus for a software-defined networking interest group known as the “Control Freaks.”…
Q&A, Over Dinner: Tips on Smartly Leveraging the Cloud, Big Data, BI and Open-Source Networking
Last week, Battery brought together six of the industry’s top global enterprise-IT CEOs and founders with a group of noted technology journalists for …
The Hummus-Baked Bean Connection, or How an Israeli Learned to Love Boston
What is it about the Israel-Boston connection that works so well in the world of tech startups?…
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…