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| Mar 1, 2015 | Solutions for Your Cloud Computing Struggles | Perhaps it’s a case of unrealistic expectations or simple lack of preparation, but companies that adopt cloud computing are finding that using it is a greater challenge than anticipated. That’s not to take away from the many benefits that t... |
| Jun 2, 2013 | Why The Data Problem Is A Good Thing For The Open Cloud Movement | Piston Cloud Co-Founder Joshua McKenty says the OpenStack customer ecosystem has four emerging market segments. On one side are the customers who hire consultants to build them a cloud. On the other side are the IBM customers who will alway... |
| Oct 29, 2012 | Amazon Reveals How It Views Google’s Cloud Efforts In Suit Filed Against Former Employee | Amazon has revealed a bit of detail for how it views Google’s cloud efforts in a lawsuit filed against a former employee on grounds he violated a non-compete clause.
Amazon filed the lawsuit on behalf of Amazon Web Services, claiming Daniel... |
| Oct 21, 2012 | Why VCs Will Continue To Invest In Big Data Startups For Many Years To Come | This week, Splice Machine raised $4 million to develop its SQL Engine for big data apps. MongoHQ raised $6 million for its database as a service. A third startup, Bloomreach, announced $25 million in funding for its big data applications.
T... |
| Oct 9, 2012 | Zenoss Raises $25 Million Series C To Automate IT | Open source IT management and monitoring company Zenoss raised a $25 million series C lead by Summit Partners with participation from previous investors Grotech Ventures, Intersouth Partners and Boulder Ventures. This brings the company’s t... |
| Oct 8, 2012 | What’s To Come As Jive’s Tony Zingale Appears On Stage at Boxworks With Box CEO Aaron Levie? | Jive CEO Tony Zingale zinged Zynga, Yammer, Oracle and you name who else in an interview with Box CEO Aaron Levie at Boxworks. But the real story comes with Zingale appearing as a mystery guest for the company’s annual event — fueling specu... |
| Oct 15, 2011 | Anti-Piracy Outfit Tries to Erase History | While there have always been suspicions that anti-piracy outfits are actively DDoSing torrent sites, when the boss of the Indian company AiPlex Software admitted to using these tactics in public it still came as a shock.
“When we detect a w... |
| Jul 12, 2011 | Citrix Buys Private Cloud Vendor Cloud.com | This morning Citrix announced its acquisition of Cloud.com, a company that sells virtualization infrastructure for building private clouds. Cloud.com brings with it a number of high profile customers such as Bechtel, GoDaddy, Tata Communica... |
| Jun 2, 2011 | China denies Gmail hacking allegations..again | Google claims it traced an attack back to Jinan, China, but China says "nuh-uh"
It’s been more than a year since Google announced it would be pulling out of China after a cyber attack that everyone except China believes China orch... |
| Mar 27, 2011 | Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …) | Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners. Read more about Suster at Bothsidesofthetable
Blogs. We all read them to get a sense of what is going on in the world, peeling back la... |
| Mar 24, 2011 | Is Apple a Social Company? | Paul Greenberg described Apple as a product and engineering centric company, as opposed to a customer and social media centric company, in the interview with Dennis Howlett we posted yesterday. But today, Mindtouch Executive Vice President ... |
| Mar 16, 2011 | Why SXSW is for Influencers and What It Says About the Cloudies | Spiceworks CEO Scott Abel sat next to me at dinner last Saturday night during SXSW. We were at Porter Finn, a restaurant in the Hilton, right in the center of the action for the annual event in Austin.
Our conversation turned to Steve Jobs.... |
| Feb 28, 2011 | Marketing and the bubble | Marketing is a weapon that startups will need to use in a very crowded environment
Rand Fishkin has a good post in response to my marketing posts over the past two days. In it he makes this assertion:
For the first few years that I was in t... |
| Feb 22, 2011 | Thoughts on public and private markets | We need to allow individual investors to participate in the value creation of large tech companies
I had breakfast with Alan Patricof last week. Alan is the dean of NYC VCs, he's been at this game longer than any of us. He was in the busine... |
| Feb 17, 2011 | This Week in iPad for Business: Twitter Analytics, Zendesk and Box | Earlier this week, thanks to the iPad, Apple overtook HP as the biggest vendor of mobile computers. Challenging HP, one of the largest vendors of both consumer and enterprise technology, is quite a feat. Expect this trend to continue. Recen... |
| Jan 24, 2011 | The State of the Platform and its Increasing Diversity | As RedMonk‘s Stephen O’Grady points out, platform-as-a-service wasn’t a hot topic for most of 2010. But interest has exploded since Salesforce.com purchased Heroku and Red Hat purchased Makara. Last week Amazon Web Services launched its Ela... |
| Jan 5, 2011 | Will the Cloud Be Tinged with Venture Capital Gold in 2011? | The forces changing the enterprise are not lost on venture capitalists. They recognize the transformation as well as anyone. So much so that it looks like cloud computing investments are expected to be greater than those in other market sec... |
| Nov 1, 2010 | The Debate About a Cloud Service in the Spirit of Hotwire.com | A service has launched that in its business scope is similar to Hotwire.com by creating spot markets for excess capacity from cloud computing providers.
SpotCloud provides a way for sellers to market excess cloud computing capacity from exi... |
| Sep 1, 2010 | Weekly Poll: What’s in Store for Cloud-Related IT Jobs? | There’s a lot of talk about the ways in which cloud computing will impact the IT job market – changing demands for the numbers and the skills of employees.
As James Urquhart notes in an article in CNET today, there have been a number of int... |
| Mar 29, 2010 | FourSquare for the Enterprise: Give it 2 Years, Max | In the past few weeks we’ve seen more references to FourSquare as a potential enterprise tool. The discussion represents an emerging law of Enterprise 2.0 Inevitably, a consumer trend in the social technology space will start to seep into t... |
| Feb 25, 2010 | Memo to CEOs And Founders: Share The Love | Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman is an occasional contributor to TechCrunch. And when he does take the time to write a guest column, they are certainly worth reading. In this post he laments cheapskate founders who trickle tiny amounts of equity dow... |
| Oct 27, 2009 | Amazon expands its database products with the Relational Database Service | Amazon continues to expand the services and infrastructure it provides online. Early this morning, it announced that you can run a powerful database in Amazon’s cloud with its Relational Database Service (RDS).
The RDS should serve as an on... |
| Apr 10, 2009 | About Those New CrunchPad Pictures | A little background for those of you who haven’t heard of the CrunchPad: This is the post that kicked off the project. I wanted something I couldn’t buy, and found people who said it could be built for a lot less than I imagined. The goal –... |
| Feb 11, 2009 | Kashflow vs Sage: SaaS Battles in the Tornado | If you sell SaaS, security is the big concern you have to deal with. Get past that one and you’ll draw serious attention from potential customers. Stumble on the issue and you’re in deep doo-doo. That is ever truer when money is involved. W... |
| Feb 6, 2009 | Zemanta For Webmail | Let's start with the disclosure part. Union Square Ventures is an investor in Zemanta. I'm talking my own book here.
Zemanta is a tool that recommends content to you *while* you are composing it. Here's a post I wrote last September that ex... |
| Dec 14, 2008 | Cloud Computing Is More Than a Computer in the Cloud | It is quite a remarkable feeling to watch as the pieces fall into place and the picture, anticipated for so long, is finally revealed in all its splendour. As with any jigsaw that lacked a guiding picture on the box, the final result is tha... |
