Is data decentralization the future of data management ?
The future is decentralized — enabling low storage costs, speed of access and rapid analytics.
Manual data collection, manual reports, lack of visibility — this is 2020 and yet it feels like we are in 1920. The data management grunt work includes extracting, moving, cleaning, and merging data, as well as making, formatting, and presenting calculations….thanks to data decentralization, this world is changing.
The growing demand for automation in Application Security
Coding vulnerabilities will soon be identified and remediated automatically…welcome to the brave new world.
Coding vulnerabilities will soon be identified and remediated automatically, complete with code suggestions ……
Pure Storage acquires Portworx
In today’s technology environment, storage vendors are often overlooked, taken for granted, and considered commoditized. Wall Street doesn’t show them much love, and their trading multiples are nothing to write home about. Storage is approximately a $24 billion market. The vendor landscape of five dominants includes Dell, NetApp, HP, Hitachi, and IBM, but their revenues are dropping fast….
Can Snowflake forge a path to $50 bn?
Snowflakes fall from clouds. And in a multi-cloud world, one snowflake plans to rule them all. A $20bn snowflake is about to drop in the IPO market, creating its own thunderstorm, smack in the middle of a COVID-ridden summer. How will this company change the cloud database landscape? Can it make databases great again?
Snowflakes fall from clouds. And in a multi-cloud world, one snowflake plans to rule them all. A $20bn snowflake is about to drop in the IPO market, creating its own thunderstorm, smack in the middle of a COVID-ridden summer. How will this company change the cloud database landscape? What market forces are driving this company, which struggled mighty to raise its Series A round? As databases become great again, which companies are worthy of pursuit? Data is powering every part of the economy. Snowflake is powering the data machines. For one, if Snowflake achieves its true potential, it can become the next Oracle, even SalesForce of data. Read the rest of this post here
Building entrepreneurial ecosystems in a post-COVID world
So tell me…how exactly do you build startup communities amidst a global pandemic? Also, why should I care about communities when everything has gone virtual?
So tell me…how exactly do you build startup communities amidst a global pandemic? Also, why should I care about communities when everything has gone virtual? After all, I cannot meet, engage and connect the good ole fashioned way — over some coffee, beer or a meal. No one has all the answers yet, and we are still in the middle of this storm…..
Amidst pandemic, investors focused on resilience and adaptability
In my TechCrunch post, I discuss the fallout of the pandemic on the funding challenges. For the vast majority of startup founders who were planning their capital raise in Q1 2020, the COVID-19 blow was so dramatic and sweeping, we cannot see all its effects at once. One big question on the minds of most founders: How should we plan our next raise in terms of timing, valuation and amounts?
My post in TechCrunch on how investors shift the focus to resilience….
Making the most of RSA 2020
Are the RSA VC schmooze sessions, after-parties and secret dinners mere distractions? Or are these an opportunity to close a deal? Which parties should you attend? How do you get in? And above all, what outcome are you working toward?
Are the RSA2020 VC schmooze sessions, after-parties and secret dinners at conferences mere distractions? Or are these an opportunity to close a deal? Which parties should you attend? How do you get in? And above all, what outcome are you working toward?