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 »
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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 typically used to help… 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 »
