The skirmishes that have been taking place between Hewlett-Packard and Cisco as each tries to encroach on the other’s territory in an effort to own both the enterprise and consumer IT markets have been heating up over the past year. HP has been strengthening… Read More »
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Microsoft is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to build out its next generation of data centers to host its cloud computing offering, Windows Azure Platform. While the company is clearly innovative in its data center designs and plans, the true reason… Read More »
When Cisco Systems announced plans to enter the enterprise server market, no company stood up and took notice more than Hewlett-Packard — the HP ProLiant line of servers, after all, is a force in the enterprise market; Cisco’s entrance was essentially a declaration of war… Read More »
It seems as though our Canadian neighbors have imported our “too big to let fail” economic policy. The Canadian government on Wednesday pledged to give telecom equipment maker Nortel Networks, which has suspended efforts to sell its Metro Ethernet unit, up to C$30 million… Read More »
Microsoft Data Center Chief Mike Manos posted a blog entry yesterday on the company’s vision for next generation data centers. The blog post (and the accompanying animated video) has extensive details on how Microsoft envisions building the data center of the future — and… Read More »
The prospect of outsourcing servers and storage to the cloud has an irresistible lure of operational simplicity and cash efficiency for today’s application developers. Cloud computing vendors help operate social networking applications, micro-blogging sites, global gaming networks and a plethora of… Read More »
Anyone who knows me will tell you that I am not a great dancer. Yet I have recently become a proponent of a technology strategy that I have coined the “cloud two-step.” The cloud two-step is the way enterprise IT departments are going to dance… Read More »
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There has been a rumor rustling around Silicon Valley for a number of months that Cisco Systems is on the verge of acquiring EMC. Such a move would make a lot of strategic sense for Cisco, but this rumored mega-merger of technology giants may have… Read More »
The current economic meltdown and its effects, which are expected to be felt for at least the next year, require entrepreneurs to find investors with deep pockets and a long-term investment horizon starting from a company’s earliest days. In other words: venture capital. Read More »
There’s buzz around Silicon Valley that there will be a big announcement made at VMworld next week in Las Vegas. I think Cisco Systems will announce support of VMware virtual machines on their networking hardware. And if I’m right, it will have numerous ramifications, not only… Read More »
Broadband service providers are looking to add higher-value services to their offerings, services that could soon include a virtual desktop for consumers. Indeed, the idea of a service provider offering a PC as a Service (PCaaS), essentially a PC in the cloud, may be coming to… Read More »
Ten years from now, I believe that clouds will be evaluated based on three generic criteria: transactions, user experience and presence. And as with any active market, it’s a safe bet that there will be plenty of companies that best showcase each of them. But which… Read More »
The usage-based pricing plans being considered by AT&T, Time Warner and others will force us all to wonder about the size of our connectivity bill on a monthly basis. Which means it won’t only be bad for users, but for some of the Internet service providers’… Read More »
While the Internet has evolved, U.S. Internet service providers have not kept pace. And their lagging is costing them money, which they are now looking to pass onto the consumer in the form of usage-based pricing. Read More »
I was recently talking to Richard Donaldson (an adviser of ours at Panorama Capital) of United Layer about a novel approach to optimizing data center cooling – using forward-looking infrared (FLIR) cameras. United Layer rents a FLIR camera, he told me, the kind… Read More »
When it comes to the operations of Internet businesses, 99.999 percent uptime, or five nines, is one of the critical metrics of reliability. Yet that metric — essentially the ability to say that users will reliably be able to reach a business’ web site 99.999… Read More »
Many of the Web 2.0 companies that I meet in my job as a venture capitalist lack even the most basic understanding of Internet operations. They’d better figure it out — and fast — because not doing so will only cost them money down the road.… Read More »
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