Back in the late 1990s I was often asked what I thought would happen if Internet bandwidth was infinite — what would that change about the Internet itself? Level 3’s (LVLT) recent decision to slash prices on its content distribution network and rumors of… Read More »
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The delivery of Internet video to your PC and television has changed the way we consume entertainment — but when will the Internet be deemed a successful channel for Hollywood? The Internet needs to deliver to the entertainment industry a metric of success that translates into revenues… Read More »
A friend of mine who runs a very large data center told me recently that his biggest day-to-day challenge is one that is becoming commonplace in his industry: how to consume less energy. Data centers consume vast amounts of energy, and rising energy costs are cutting… Read More »
I was talking to some colleagues earlier this month about Intel’s (INTC) plan to have an 80-core processor ready for the market within five years. I’ve written about commodity computing in this space before, but this latest Intel announcement made me realize that we’re… Read More »
Google (GOOG) should buy Adobe (ADBE), but not for the reasons you might think. Google would acquire some great software in Acrobat, Photoshop and their desktop run-time environment (now called Adobe Integrated Runtime, or AIR). But while these are good software assets that could… Read More »
Get ready for a fracturing of the Internet domain name space and the global Internet looking far less homogenous and more like the ancient town of Babel. And a lot of it has to do with International Domain Names in Applications or IDNA. The Internet and its… Read More »
Venture capital has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into companies building equipment to enable FMC (fixed-to-mobile convergence) products and services. To date, the cellular operator market opportunity has languished but the tide may be changing if the MVNOs take advantage of the technology. FMC, among other… Read More »
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I was recently meeting with a Web 2.0 company discussing their network infrastructure plans. As I started asking questions about their racks of servers, their storage area network (SAN), their plans for routing, load-balancing and network security, the CTO of the company stopped me and… Read More »
The traditional content delivery networks (CDNs) of the mid-1990s were designed to move web content close to the narrowband last mile of modems and ISDN connections. As I’ve written about here before, even today in the broadband age CDNs are booming because digital media is… Read More »
The cost effectiveness and convenience of outsourcing your data center to a hosting provider has been under attack from a lack of consumable power from utility companies. There are numerous stories about major hosting providers turning away customers because of their power requirements. Some of the… Read More »
EngineYard, a Sacramento, California-based start-up that has developed expertise in providing managed Ruby-on-Rails (RoR) application deployment environments, and a smart two-pronged go to market strategy, is fast becoming a major trend. Lance Walley, co-founder of EngineYard argues that if you are a business that depends on… Read More »
In my VC role I focus on technology investments – specifically Internet infrastructure and services (networking, servers, storage) for both the enterprise and service provider markets. Although not as hot as web2.0, there are a lot of startups building interesting technologies in this area. To filter… Read More »
A friend of mine in enterprise sales once told me that “absolutely nothing sells like great personal service.” This is a lesson for any business and has been the mantra of traditional consumer goods over the ages. Not surprisingly, I’ve noticed a clear trend of consumer… Read More »
We all know that the Internet is available on your mobile phone – but how about bringing the Internet to your cordless home phone? In case you have forgotten (because you use your mobile phone for everything), your home phone is cordless but not too… Read More »
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