Author of Essentials of Venture Capital. Tech/Finance Writer. Thought Leader at Rackspace, the Open Cloud Company.
Joined May 2008
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"Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less." -R.E.Lee
"It's not the big that eat the small, it's the fast that eat the slow..." And they typically get indigestion w/o expert help #rackspacesolve
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Scaling isn't just adding servers, but it’s also about figuring out fastest way to serve customers through data connections #rackspacesolve
"We want to do to big data what Excel did to old school data processing" says @newrelic CEO. Exciting vision 4 data nerds. #rackspacesolve
"You can't just read a blog and do devops on a multi-tier application." says @WePay CEO, that's what they come to @rackspace #rackspacesolve
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The power of docker is that it allows devs to focus on content creation and not on the problems of distribution. @golubbe at #rackspacesolve
"It should be easier to ship applications from one datacenter to another than to ship car parts halfway around the world." @docker's CEO
Learning about "the cloud" from @camerondiaz is one way, but we think there's a better way says @jengates at #rackspacesolve.
Focusing on what really differentiates you as a company--not on a maze of IT issues--is what customers want says @jengates #rackspacesolve
Ever since @rackspace launched #OnMetal, people ask me how much does it cost & when can I get it? Answers today: rackspace.com/cloud/servers/
I'm blown away by the vision @kordless has for a distributed compute future. Read this eye-opener: github.com/StackMonkey/utter…
Want a challenge? Leave your startup and join a big company: medium.com/@ahaislip/cad699d…
Fast and Freaky Technology on Display at GigaOm Structure. Cloud is in an evolution stage. The Revolution is over. forbes.com/sites/alexanderha…
Proud of the team for announcing free backups for MongoDB, live on stage at #MongoDBWorld : rackspace.com/blog/free-back… @ObjectRocket
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This is what I've been working on: eventbrite.com/e/rackspace-s… - this Thursday - 7:30pm - Rackspace SF. – at San Francisco, CA
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Ben Horowitz on stage at Cannes : the difference between vision and hallucination is that other people can see vision
@jayprikh says FB using "free space optics" to beam Facebook to the developing world. They put freaking lasers on the Net. #gigaomlive
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Very excited to welcome Lucy Mendel, @Rackspace Community Leader, for a new talk on D2D Collaboration Strategies: sfbeta.com/d2d-collaboration…
Congratulations to @gretcurtis for winning a spot in the 40-under-40. Well deserved for her work w/ @piston broadwayworld.com/bwwgeeks/a…
Awesome post today by my friends @annegentle & @geography76 on helping kids get excited about open source science: developer.rackspace.com/blog…