I started tracking 3Tera in August 2005. They made some amazing progress with their AppLogic release in the next 12 months and things were really starting to look good, so I wrote my first article about them in September 2006. A couple weeks later, ReadWriteWeb called them out as well. Time passed. 3Tera was early. The market was

Enjoying Apple Hill with family & friends this weekend. Perfect day in Placerville today… Thrilled that my daughter could stay weekend! [#]

Big news: Starting with HP next week as Distinguished Technologist in the IM CTO Office. Very excited! [#]

Published Grand Central Dispatch now Open For Business

I recently gushed about Apple's new Grand Central Dispatch code at the heart of the recent Snow Leopard Mac OS X release. Good news. Apple has decided to Open Source the code under an Apache license. Drew McCormack over at MacResearch speculates as to why in?Grand Central Now Open to All | MacResearch: There could be one

Published Petabytes on a budget: Cheap Storage

The folks at Backblaze provided a very nice, and detailed look into how they create cheap, reliable storage to host their customer's data. Via?Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage | Backblaze Blog: At Backblaze, we provide unlimited storage to our customers for only $5 per month, so we had to figure out

John Siracusa does an awesome job writing his review of mac OS X Snow Leopard for As Technica:?Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: the Ars Technica review – Ars Technica. Grand Central Dispatch is far and away the coolest technology that I've seen created in a long time for super-simple concurrent programming that fits your existing

I think this move surprised a number of people, since Bill recently wrapped up Cassatt Corproation, getting the technology and people?acquired by Computer Associates. However, I was not surprised at all. The announcement, via?3tera Welcomes Bill Coleman: You may or may not have seen the recent press realease.? Bill Coleman, IT/Silicon Valley lumina...

From Liming Liu of www.cloudcomputingchina.com, check out:?Cloud Computing Introduction. Nicely done, and is an indication of how fast this market is changing. Finally.

Ken North writes a great article in Dr. Dobb's Journal on Databases in the Cloud. Check out Dr. Dobb's | Databases in the Cloud: Elysian Fields or Briar Patch? | August 3, 2009: The cloud is an elastic computing and data storage engine, a virtual network of servers, storage devices, and other computing resources. It's a...

This post by Fred Wilson certainly resonated with me, and caused me to reflect about my time with Sevin Rosen Funds. Via Doubling Down: Like most VCs, I am guilty of sticking with our investments too long and putting too much money into the ones that are not working. It's an occupational hazard. As I've gotten

Last week, Amazon acquired Zappos for roughly $847M. The founders did very well. Via What Everyone Made from the Zappos Sale. It?s much harder to see how much Hsieh and Lin are making, because no one knows how much of the proceeds of the Venture Frogs shares goes to their pockets or to their LPs. But

Here's how I integrated my Twitter status updates into my Wordpress blog. I wanted to load all of my old, archived tweets as "Weekly Digest" combined posts, but I didn't want those digests to show up on my home-page, and I didn't want those digests to show up in my RSS feed. I wanted all

Check out http://bigtable.appspot.com/ It's basically a REST interface to the Google BigTable database service that is included with Google App Engine. This is simple, yet powerful stuff. And, this is just another example – see my earlier post on creating a simple blog engine on top of this infrastructure. So, yeah. Your Google App Engine app...

Some interesting things have happened recently that have caused me to spend way too much time writing Python code: Google App Engine was release with native support for pure Python web applications. It's now really easy to write and deploy Python applications that are extremely scalable on top of a solid (and portable)  infrastructure. Apple...