PARTNER WE LIKE: ENKI

by Sean Tario | Jun 1, 2012 | Business is Personal, From our Newsletter, People We Like

One of the hand full of providers we love working with that fill the “private IT service and managed elastic hosting provider owned and run by engineers” niche we speak about in A Cloud Divided: Part One is called ENKI, headquartered in Mountain View...

Interop Shakedown

by Sean Tario | May 24, 2012 | People We Like, What We're Reading

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...

Partner We Like: Kevin Holmes & Founders Network

by Sean Tario | Mar 27, 2012 | From our Newsletter, People We Like

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...

Person We Like: Bill Norton “Dr. Peering”

by Sean Tario | Feb 28, 2012 | From our Newsletter, People We Like, What We're Reading

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....

Partner We Like: SOASTA

by Sean Tario | Feb 14, 2012 | From our Newsletter, People We Like

  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...

Person We Like: Jason Maxham

by Sean Tario | Jan 30, 2012 | Business is Personal, From our Newsletter, People We Like

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...