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The Googlization of IT

Oct 27, 2009
in Infrastructure, On Demand

Today I took a sales team from a portfolio company to meet with a couple of senior IT executives at a major retail company.  Towards the end of the meeting, it started to become quite clear to me the effect that Google and the web has had on IT to date and where it was [...]

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Data wars heating up – Microsoft buys DATAllegro

Jul 25, 2008
in Infrastructure

As I have written in previous posts, what you do with data will be one of the next battlegrounds on the web.  Knowing that they had some limitations with SQL Server, Microsoft announced its acquisition of DATAllegro (full disclosure: my fund is an investor in competitor Greenplum) to enter the data warehousing market.  Enterprise volumes [...]

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Picks and shovels for the web

Nov 13, 2007
in Infrastructure, Web/Tech

We have had quite a resurgence in the web market during the last few years.  A number of great companies have come out of nowhere to become household names, and it seems that everyday we are inundated with news on another slew of new web startups going after the consumer.  And yes, looking for the [...]

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