In this blog I share something I’ve been saying for a while now that people suggested might just be audacious enough to spark a conversation. Plus — I explain why I’ve decided to help found another storage project — OpenEBS — and to become CEO of the underlying company, CloudByte, at a time in which venture capital funding to the space has …
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Cloudbyte Announces Evan Powell as CEO and Additional Funding
Today Cloudbyte announced that Evan Powell, Co-founder of companies including Nexenta Systems, a leader in open storage, and StackStorm, a leader in DevOps automation, has joined as CEO. In addition, OpenEBS has achieved a major milestone with 0.3 release and is now available for trial use as a hyper-converged solution for containerized environments. OpenEBS enables the use of …
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Experts in Residence (EIRs)
The EVO Expert Network brings together the foremost IT Infrastructure experts in Europe, delivering education and mentorship to our portfolio across a diverse range of specific domains (including Sales, Product, Marketing, International Scaling). Want to become a EVO Experts in Residence (EIRs) ? a closed group (invite-only) of experts in the IT Infrastructure …
The next generation of cloud infrastructure – Serverless explainer
The first thing to know about serverless computing is that “serverless” is a pretty bad name to call it. Contrary to the vernacular, the technology that has burst onto the cloud computing scene in the past two years still does in fact run on servers. The name serverless instead highlights the fact that end users …
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Value Adding Network Services require real-time insights
User experience is key in the digital economy. Enterprises are continuously challenged to optimize their global network infrastructures to maintain the best experience and performance for their workforce and their customers. To do this, they need comprehensive and real-time insights into their network’s behaviour — something the typical carrier cannot, and will not, provide. Right …
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EVO Industry Expert Dinner 2016
This December 8th 2016 we had the pleasure to welcome a great group of IT infrastructure experts. Great food by Pieter and a wonderful location arranged by Joop of Aventura Wines. Thanks to all our attendees: Joep Piscaer, Rutger Kosters, Niels Hagoort, Frank Denneman, Harm Boertien, Walter Heck, Francisco Perez, Dennis Bruin, Dave Dirks, Funs Kessen, Willem ter …
Why RackN Is Joining Infrastructure Masons
A few months ago, Dean Nelson, who for many years ran the eBay data center strategy shared his vision of Infrastructure Masons ( http://www.infrastructuremasons.org ) with me and asked us if we were interested in participating. He invited us to attend the very first Infrastructure Masons Leadership Summit which is being held November 16th at …
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The AWS RI Marketplace – a ghost town?
In 2009 AWS launched their EC2 Reserved Instance (RI) pricing model , providing a significant discount compared to the on-demand pricing model if you are willing to commit to 1 or 3 years of usage. Cost management on AWS is a hot topic, with hundreds of blogs on making the right choice of RI’s. A …
DDoS attacks are not only distressing but costly. They need for Tech Startups
DDoS attacks are not only distressing but costly. That’s why we need now more than ever tech startups. Recently The Atlantic wrote a great blog. How Much Will Today’s Internet Outage Cost? Some companies lose tens of thousands of dollars for every minute of a DDoS attack. Internet outages continued into Friday afternoon, with major websites …
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What are attributes of great companies? When do we invest and how to be a different Tech VC?
Every time I assessed an opportunity during the last 15 years, I evaluated four questions: How big is the problem that you are addressing with the solution you need to bring to market? Each potential customer should agree that what you’re addressing is a major issue. How disruptive is the solution you are going to market …