Forget offshore tax-havens & meet the offshore cloud
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Can a niche player build a business offering an offshore cloud to rival Amazon's infrastructure as a service? Calligo wants to try. The startup has...
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Calligo creates an offshore cloud (with a cameo from Nicira)
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Can a niche player build a business offering an offshore cloud to rival Amazon's infrastructure as a service? Calligo wants to try. The startup has...
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He said, she said: Is Comcast prioritizing traffic or not?
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Comcast, once again, has some explaining to do. An engineer has conducted experiments that he says show the nation’s largest broadband provider...
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Qualtrics, a decade-old marketing research company has raised a $70 million first round of venture capital. This isn't a growth capital deal,...
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LightSquared's bankruptcy is the conclusion of a process that is rigged against broadband competition. Maybe it would have failed for economic...
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Superstacks: How consumers trade convenience for choice
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Welcome to the concept of the superstack -- which acts to circumvent the openness that the Internet and the digitization of content has enabled and...
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Verizon Communications has had a history of standing up against publishers seeking to subpoena information about its subscribers and their...
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How big data will change networking
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What if you could know everything about your network? Instead of getting snapshots you could see the path of every packet and run analytics on that...
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Adventures in big data: How AddThis’ Hydra works
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With 10 terabytes of data generated everyday, AddThis (formerly called Clearspring) has access to a social graph that rivals Facebook. But unlike...
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T-Mobile grows but its lack of iPhone is still a problem
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T-Mobile is still struggling after its planned acquisition by AT&T fell through. In the first full quarter after the proposed merger was...
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Exclusive: Cloud Foundry’s founder debuts Apcera with $2.2M in funding
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Derek Collison, the guy who built VMware's CloudFoundry service, left the hypervisor giant in mid-February with an idea to make platforms as a...
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Exclusive: CloudFoundry’s founder debuts Apcera with $2.2M in funding
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Derek Collison, the guy who built VMware's CloudFoundry service, left the hypervisor giant in mid-February with an idea to make platforms as a...
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Go read this article in the New York Times. It articles the problems we have with U.S. broadband and where those problems come from. Not evil ISPs,...
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Every year at our Structure 2012 conference we host a Launchpad of startups. This year, we decided to give the 10 finalists more than stage-time:...
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