Peering from a Provider’s Perspective
The following article is being re-syndicated, courtesy of Ask Dr. Peering Q: Dr. Peering, We’re trying to get a sense of how peering is different for content providers. Would you be a good sport and tell us a little more about that? Bob Slydell and Bob Porter...
Which is less expensive: Amazon or self-hosted?
We recently came across a blog post in GigaOM that walked through some hard numbers showing what we have always suspected and heard from entrepreneurs and engineers scaling companies online... Amazon really isn't all that cheap and most definitely isn't always "the...
Person We Like: Jason Maxham
I first got to know Jason while he was the CTO at Discovery Mining; A forward thinking SaaS company serving the e-litigation industry which was bought out by Interwoven in 2008, then bought out by Autonomy in 2009 and finally bought out by HP. While representing Jason...
Case Study: Hosting & Preparing for Serious Growth
Let's say you're a scaling online startup with a rock star CEO who knows how to raise money and build momentum with an amazing technical co-founder who is a Ruby on Rails application building ninja. Let's also say you're about to land some massive deals that will...
Partner We Like: FastDataDelivery
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." —Tanenbaum, Andrew S. (1996) Have you ever had to move a massive amount of data - say, over 5 terabytes or... 100+ terabytes - to the other side of the country? If you have...
Internet Plumbing Basics & Options
I feel that the attention focused on "CLOUD" has kept many people from actually looking into and understanding what cloud really is - a way to deploy physical IT Infrastructure. Rather than asking what your cloud strategy should be, you need to be asking; What does my...
Where to host your domain if SOPA/PIPA Passes
By now, most of you should be aware of the two bills SOPA and PIPA being pushed through Congress that attempt to thwart online piracy and copyright infringement - as well as the much covered opposition from the likes of Google, Wikipedia, Reddit, etc. For those of you...
Quality OVER Quantity
I've been thinking a lot lately about "Quality and Quantity", or probably better stated "Quality vs. Quantity", as it is coming into play both personally and at work more and more often. I'm fully aware that almost everything I'm about to write has been written...
Roundup Dec 12
Here is your Headline Roundup for the week beginning Nov 12, ending Nov 16. HP and Microsoft announced a global, four-year initiative to deliver Microsoft’s communications and collaboration applications via global private and public cloud services - more Australian...
Person We Like: Fan Zhu
Many of you have already met or heard from my business partner and right hand man Fan Zhu, but to those of you who haven't had the chance yet I hope you do soon. Fan is a huge technology geek and semi-professional jack-of-all-trades. His passion for business...