I'm happy to announce that I've agreed to pitch in as a TechStars Mentor for
their new Cloud accelerator program.
For those of you unfamiliar with TechStars, it's the #1 startup accelerator
in the world. Not to mention one of the most selective – although thousands
of companies apply each year, they only take about ten companies per program.
This gives them a selection rate lower than most Ivy League schools, so you
have to be among the best of the best to be in TechStar.
TechStars Cloud is a vertically-focused accelerator that funds companies
focused exclusively on cloud computing and cloud infrastructure. For me, the
more exciting aspect of the TechStars Cloud program is that it's
specifically targeting cloud infrastructure startups exclusively. Yes,
something I have a bit of experience with.
What do you get? How's $100k cash sound? Oh did I mention it's provided b... (more)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada—December 15, 2011— We are happy to announce
today that Enomaly Inc., has entered into a definitive agreement to be
acquired by Virtustream, Inc., a leading global cloud solutions provider.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, and the deal is expected to close in Q1
of 2012.
Virtustream owns and operates its own data centers in the U.S. and U.K., and
has offices in Washington, D.C., New York, San Francisco, Atlanta, London and
Dublin. Virtusteam clients include some of the worlds largest and most
successful firms including Domino Foods and Yum Brands.
... (more)
As many of you know I've been pushing for the creation of a formal Cloud
Computing Trade Association for quite sometime, but unfortunately we've
lacked both the will of the industry and the money to make this happen. Given
the recent announcement of a EuroCloud Cloud Computing association in Europe,
the opportunity to do something here in North America or more broadly has
re-emerged. In my previous discussions there has been a tremendous amount of
interest in the creation of an International Cloud Computing Trade
Association, but when it comes down to it, the money to fund such a... (more)
Security Session at Cloud Expo
By now most of you have probably heard about the GoogleHack in China.
Yesterday Google's Chief Legal Officer David Drummond wrote in a blog post
that indicated the accounts of dozens of Gmail users in the U.S., Europe and
China who are advocates of human rights in China were routinely accessed by
third parties.
Drummond said that these accounts were compromised through phishing scams or
malware, not through holes in Google's computing infrastructure.
And as expected there are headlines saying that this proves that "The Cloud"
isn't secure and CAN'T BE... (more)
Since starting Enomaly almost 5 1/2 years ago we've learned a lot about the
bootstrapping, building and management of an open source business. Over that
time the open source model for application development and marketing has
grown from a fringe approach to mainstream model being used by a significant
portion of the software & technology industry.
Recently with the emergence of cloud computing, open source has become an
even more important aspect in the modern enterprise technology landscape. By
using the cloud we are no longer locked into a single server, data center or
network ... (more)