Interop Shakedown
Interop was filled with small, smart companies that shone well amongst the dim light of mediocrity. To be fair, it was a good show. Not great. But filled with gems. It was small enough for me to meet almost everyone of the ~350 booths that claimed presence. What made...
Case Study: Bay Area Colo – When Proximity to AWS Matters
Let's say you're a scaling company that's well funded and hitting bottlenecks within the software, systems and database architecture originally designed to simply push a proof of concept out the door. "All good problems to have" the business folks say... as you try to...
Shawn Achor vs. Cult of the “Average”
Shawn Achor is funny and smart. His rhetoric is hypnotic and powerfully addictive. When charged to write a reviewing this twelve and a half minute talk on the stage of TedX, I didn’t know what to do. Sure, it was easy to watch Shawn deftly cut through the rhetoric we...
What the Hell is Cloud Computing?
I generally don't agree with much of what Oracle or Larry himself has to say, however thanks to my friend Hazem, I came across a rather old recording of Larry Ellison speaking to a crowd answering a question about how cloud computing would effect his business... and...
Citrix Pushing CloudStack to Apache Software Foundation
Recent news that Citrix has discontinued its OpenStack development effort and shifted CloudStack from a GPL license to the the Apache Software Foundation is definitely news in our world. We've been hearing clients and service providers going back and forth as to which...
Partner We Like: Kevin Holmes & Founders Network
I first met Kevin while working side by side on the management team of our first startup in college at Santa Clara University. It was 2002, and while Silicon Valley was drastically changing all around us we were pounding the phones 10 hours a day cold calling into...
Hard Decisions Are The Most Personal
Layoffs happen and sometimes need to happen. Companies change vendors and clients sometimes decide to work with a competitor. Sometimes vendors and employees need to go without getting paid for a period of time until the company can get out of a temporarily cash...
Person We Like: Bill Norton “Dr. Peering”
It is rare, even in our industry, that you find an engineer or business executive who is truly passionate about IT Infrastructure. At OSI, such people are a breath of fresh air and thus we would like to introduce you to a new friend of ours Bill Norton (aka Dr....
A Company is a Marriage
Inc Magazine published an article this week titled 10 Things Bosses Never Tell Employees and another article last month titled 7 Things Your Employees Will Never Tell You. If you own your own business or if you manage one for someone else, you should read these 2...
Partner We Like: SOASTA
We recently came across a service that blew our minds in how they effectively leverage all things awesome about elastic computing to deliver a service that, bar none, can't be beat in their respective industry. That company is SOASTA and we HIGHLY recommend you...