Gridstore Announces Funding With An Aim To Disrupt Storage Market
Gridstore, the Mountain View based distributed storage vendor, today announced Series A funding lead by GGV Capital and Onset Ventures along with participation from their existing investors. Gridstore will use this to expand their sales efforts, possibly, in new market segments. Taking advantage of grid architecture and virtualization, Gridstore is hoping to disrupt the storage [...]
I’m sorry, you’re just not incompetent enough to get it
Olivier Blanchard made me do it. @martijnlinssen As far as I can tell, incompetence isn’t a driver of failure. It’s a driver of advancement. — Olivier Blanchard (@thebrandbuilder) October 16, 2012 And it is. Definition of advancement? Coming up soon. But this is the driver for most, if not all, of your life: work, [...]
Analytics-first Enterprise Applications
This is the story of Tim Zimmer who has been working as a technician for one of the large appliance store chains. His job is to attend service calls for washers and dryers. He has seen a lot in his life; a lot has changed but a few things have stayed t…
Do You Scale? It’s Harder in SaaS.
Generally speaking, I think scaling product in SaaS is about 10x easier than consumer internet. Not easy mind you, but 10x easier. Why? Even Salesforce.com only has a tiny fraction of the concurrent sessions of Twitter, let alone Facebook. Your SaaS apps? It will likely barely tax a couple of instances at AWS. I [...]
