April 2011
31 posts
Apr 29th
Apr 29th
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Apr 28th
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Microsoft: Our rights to Nortel patents do not... →
Microsoft: Our rights to Nortel patents do not change if they are acquired Abner: Hmm this popcorn is delicious.
Apr 27th
“We have contracts with correctional facilities in 43 states to supply clear...”
– World’s Last Typewriter Maker Is Alive and Well in New Jersey - FoxNews.com Huh. How about that?
Apr 27th
“Ahoy hoy and welcome to the newly minted Twilio engineering blog! We the Twilio...”
– Twilio Engineering Blog — If the post re AWS EBS failure is any indication, this is gonna be a great blog. (via irq) Agree. Twillo has been doing some very cool stuff for a long time. Sharp dudes. Disruptive service.
Apr 26th
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Melchior Aelmans » Building a Juniper Olive lab →
Completely unofficially and in a personal capacity: Like.
Apr 26th
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Apr 26th
The Aftermath of Amazon’s Cloud Outage « Data... →
Apr 26th
Confluence: Testing Cloud Services at home:... →
leoboulton: Cloud services are everywhere, particularly in the home. This week I decided to give it a try at going full cloud on entertainment: I bought the latest Sony Blue-ray BDP-S780 which comes with a boat load of online streaming services. My selection criteria was based on the following services: Amazon Instant Video Also try Onlive for gaming. Pretty cool.
Apr 23rd
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“It could have been the fault of a telecom vendor, an app vendor, a customer who...”
– Amazon crash reveals ‘cloud’ computing actually based on data centers | ITworld
Apr 23rd
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Index Ventures Blog – Big Switch: Virtualizing IP... →
Interesting additions to the team and words from Volpi of all people.
Apr 22nd
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Apr 21st
High Scalability - High Scalability - Packet... →
Great list
Apr 21st
“To enterprise companies, the consumer market is the Afghanistan of business”
– Consumer Markets Bewilder Enterprise Companies - NYTimes.com It’s funny because it’s true.
Apr 18th
“Peacetime CEO strives not to use profanity. Wartime CEO sometimes uses profanity...”
– my favorite blogger right now is @bhorowitz Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO // ben’s blog (via fred-wilson)
Apr 18th
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Daring Fireball Linked List: Claim Chowder Pairs... →
Netbooks vs iPad predictions. I find it funny, but likely for different reasons than others.
Apr 16th
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Cisco EOS Dead
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Apr 14th
“Loura let workers choose between an iPhone or Android or Window Phone 7-powered...”
– Ralph Loura, CIO at Clorox, let employees choose their phone. The results are, um, interesting. Choo choo… (via brycedotvc)
Apr 14th
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“Some people think that the potential adoption of OpenFlow API will magically...”
– Cisco IOS Hints and Tricks: OpenFlow: BIOS does not a server make
Apr 8th
Open Compute Project →
Apr 7th
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WatchWatch
leoboulton: Facebook’s servers are introduced to the world.
Apr 7th
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WatchWatch
Packet Flight: Facebook News Feed @8X (by Carlos Bueno)
Apr 7th
“The notion that there is a sea change in switch buying appears flawed based on...”
– Cisco: Switch Share-Loss Overstated, Says Pac Crest - Tech Trader Daily - Barrons.com Nobody buys just one box. Price is increasingly dependent on architecture as opposed to an orange to tangerine box comparison between vendors. No vendor has ever gained significant share in networking based on...
Apr 7th
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“We will charge no management fee on the additional funds—neither on committed...”
– Andreessen Horowitz has a new $200mm Co-Investment Fund // ben’s blog Dudes are killing it and only slightly behind the Russians/DTS in the new world of private markets and investors that hate maintenance fees.
Apr 7th
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Apr 5th
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“So after a lot of thought, we’ve decided to bid for Nortel’s patent portfolio in...”
– Official Google Blog: Patents and innovation (via irq) Google takes another potential step in becoming an even bigger force in communications, LTE, and more. Avaya bid $475 and then bought Nortel enterprise coms for $900m after outbidding Siemens. I suspect there may be a few interested parties...
Apr 4th
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“Here’s an analogy, you can rent a whole house, rent a room in a house, or...”
– Adrian Cockcroft’s Blog: Understanding and using Amazon EBS - Elastic Block Store
Apr 4th
“As noted in End User Prediction #1, above, the number of applications companies...”
– Cloud Computing: 2011 Predictions CIO.com
Apr 4th
“First, our engineers extended many of Twitter’s core systems to replicate Tweets...”
– Twitter Engineering: The Great Migration, the Winter of 2011
Apr 2nd