Recently Matt Asay wrote a thoughtful piece about how some technology companies are consumerizing the computing experience. In the case of Apple, Business Week writer Peter Burrows has also recently wrote about The Mac in the Gray Flannel Suite exploring how CIOs are testing the appetite for Macs in the enterprise. Michele Goins CIO […]

The US economy is heading into a recession and technology spending is in for a steep decline in 2008. So every major prognosticator and news outlet from the Wall Street Journal to the Financial Times would have us believe.
Are these people watching the same movie I am? There are two problems I […]

I’m not sure if it’s the start of a new quarter, the full moon or my two seven year old boys that have me thinking about this, but we seem to be blowing a lot of things up lately. A few examples…
1. We blew up our product development process
2. We blew up lots of our […]

A few months ago I started working on a next round of funding for our company, Splunk. As an exercise I decided to keep notes on the progress of the fund raising in hopes of looking back and perhaps sharing a thing or two with other entrepreneurs. I’ve raised a lot of venture […]

Who am I to second guess it. Virtualization is hot. In the past week VMWare went public closing at the end of the first day with a $20B market cap and Citrix agreed to buy XenSource for $500M.
WOW! This kind of activity make the bubble days pale in comparison.
I […]

Yesterday I gave the keynote at the annual Deutsche Bank innovation awards ceremony in London. Once a year DB celebrates the innovators within the bank and awards prizes for the most entrepreneurial, cost reducing and revenue generating new inventions.
What a cool thing to do.
I have to admit speaking to a group like […]

Last week two significant developments took place in the world of datacenter technologies. At first these two events may seem unrelated but a closer look makes for an interesting debate about how we’ll be managing our IT environments and who will be providing the solutions.
First Marc Andreesen posted on his blog, “HP […]

With all the consumer Internet, video sharing, Web 2.0 hype in Silicon Valley, it’s easy to forget lots of money still gets made investing in the less sexy nuts and bolts stuff. This past week, the Wall Street Journal published a piece summing up the effect of technology IPOs over the past 18 months. […]