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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 things, allows your dual-mode mobile phone to seamlessly transfer [...]

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 made a bold statement.
He said, “The Internet is like [...]

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 largest enterprises and service providers are have resorted to [...]

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 RoR applications or you’re a RoR application developer, you should [...]

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 potential investments further, I’ve recently taken an approach where [...]

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 electronics companies trying to differentiate their commodity products with [...]