The future is decentralized — enabling low storage costs, speed of access and rapid analytics.
Read MoreThe growing demand for automation in Application Security →
Coding vulnerabilities will soon be identified and remediated automatically…welcome to the brave new world.
Read MorePure 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….
Read MoreCan 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?
Read MoreBuilding 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?
Read MoreAmidst 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?
Read MoreMaking 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?
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