A Layer 3 Elevator
For years, I’ve used the metaphor of escalators and elevators to explain the difference between Asynchronous and Synchronous (TDM and VoIP). It’s not a perfect analogy, but people get it. It goes something like this: Escalators are a consistent speed – people get on in a certain order and their arrival time and order sequence [...]
IBM Announces FISMA Compliant Social Cloud – Will It Make Govt. Efficient?
After a soft release in early October, IBM has announced that they are releasing a social cloud targeting the US government agencies. This is a set of social and collaboration tools IBM is building on top of Federal Community Cloud they announced last year. Federal community cloud are secure, private cloud environments, part of IBM’s established [...]
Understanding How Dilution Affects You at a Startup
Dilution. Or as industry insiders call it, “taking a haircut.” Everybody knows that when you raise money at a startup your ownership percentage of the company goes down. The goal is to have the value of the startup go up by enough that you own a smaller percentage of a much larger business and therefore [...]
CloudU Webinar Recap: Does Data Want to be Free?
Last week we had the latest CloudU webinar, this time looking at the role of Open Standards in Cloud Computing. I was really excited to be joined on the call by Scott Sanchez, someone who is intimately involved with one of the biggest Cloud Open Standards plays, OpenStack. As well as Sanchez, we were joined [...]
What is Amazon’s Secret for Success and Why is EC2 a Runaway Train?
We can all see it Amazon’s continued growth. The ‘Other’ line in their revenue reports is now the #1 area of growth for Amazon, even above consumer electronics. Their latest 10-Qreported 87% year-over-year growth, well over their consumer electronics business. Per predictions from myself, UBS, and others, AWS is staying on-track for 100% year-over-year growth, revenues in the [...]
