
NextAxiom Looks to Solve Application Integration
NextAxiom, a company founded over a decade ago, is pushing hard to create what it calls a silo-free enterprise. It’s take on this hallowed territory is that by enabling intelligent information flow between discrete information silos, organizations will be able to integrate existing applications and develop new ones that leverage the “building blocks” of core […]

The Market Data Sweet Spot for Cloud Computing
Optimizing and tuning the market data systems that keep this crucial information flowing smoothly and cost effectively is no easy task. What, if anything, can cloud computing offer to ease the challenge?

Using the Cloud to Design Your Startup Computing Infrastructure
Now that the wireframe is done for the startup, we are looking at the backend architecture for what we want to accomplish. The idea of using the cloud to cut down on costs is nothing new, and my new startup will be heavily leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to keep […]

Another New Startup for Seattle Starts Today
What is interesting about problems is that if you are lucky enough to have a good idea that will help solve the problem you can pretty much do a great startup. Over the last week my startup has been in trouble yet again, and in thinking through some of the problems with third party selling […]

The Anti-Beta Revolution. Or is it a Counter-Revolution?
Gizmodo has just issued A Call for Revolution Against Beta Culture – great article, and boy, do I love the illustration!. I’m tired of this beta culture that has spread like metastatic cancer in the last few years, starting with software from Google and others and ending up in almost every gadget and computer system […]