
A Tip of the Hat to Grid On Their Launch Day
It’s not every day you hear about a startup in Iceland, founded by a guy whose last company was a data marketplace that he sold to Qlik. And it’s a small world when a friend and fellow board member had independently discovered the same tool and built a simple agreement for future equity (SAFE) calculator […]

Single Tenant, Multitenant, Private and Public Clouds: Oh My!
My head is starting to hurt with all the back and forth among my Enterprise Irregulars buddies about the relationships between the complex concepts of Multitenancy, Private, and Public Clouds. A set of disjoint conversations and posts came together like the whirlpool in the bottom of a tub when it drains. I was busy with […]

What’s Hadoop Good For?
Image via CrunchBase Hadoop, for those who haven’t heard of it, is an Open Source version of Google’s Map Reduce distributed computing algorithm. After reading that Adobe has agreed to Open Source their Puppet modules for managing Hadoop, I got curious about what Adobe might be doing with it. It didn’t take long on Google […]