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…
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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…
Generation 3 of Business Analytics is Finally Here
It’s well known that gaming poses the most demanding requirements on consumer computing. Graphic Processing Units have been on the forefront of innova…