I left Part 1 talking about how the demands of high performance compute had outgrown the chip and were increasingly being handled at the level of the data center. There are two different but related planes of inter-connection inside a datacenter: within a single server (scale-up) and across servers (scale-out). In a scale-up configuration a […]
At a high level, a computer runs a program by compiling human decipherable instructions into machine readable sequences of commands (threads) that are carried out by processing units (cores) on a CPU. So when you open a web browser, one thread might tell a processor to display images, another to download a file. The speed […]
Original Post: Yet Another IAC Writeup So the Angi’s bull case is that fixed pricing (aka, “pre-pricing”, aka “Angi Services”), by alleviating friction on each side of the network, should help convert service requests into transactions: service providers would rather be paid for confirmed jobs than play jump ball for leads that may not convert; […]
Everbridge sells software that companies (63% of rev) and government agencies (26%) use to notify their constituents of unforeseen events and orchestrate a response. Its mass notification solution will ingest all kinds of employee data – name, job title, home and office address, time zone, email, cell, work number, first language – from an enterprise’s […]
Below is a transcript of a podcast I recently recorded. It has been lightly edited for clarity. You can find the podcast by searching for “scuttleblurb” on Apple or Spotify. So Align technology is the company behind the Invisalign brand of clear liners. And so those are the clear removable plastic trays that are used […]
Like many online retailers, Zooplus converts incremental profits from its growing scale into growth through investments in price and Google keywords. But cutting prices is a blunt tool as it reduces profits from all existing customers, and spending 80% of your marketing budget on Google eventually hits a limit. There are no volume discounts on […]
Salesforce.com disrupted enterprise software and then invited others to do the same. Sometime in the early 2000s, the company exposed its internal development platform – the infrastructure, databases, and APIs used to support salesforce.com – as a service, force.com, that third parties could leverage to build their own apps for faster and cheaper than they […]
Dropbox and Box both originated as file sharing and sync (FSS) vendors in the mid-2000s but have since traveled along different trajectories. Box began migrating upmarket in 2008, complementing its core document storage solution with add-ons demanded by compliance-sensitive large enterprises….things like: Box Shield, which prevents a user from downloading a file infected with malware, […]