I’ve been following Cloud Foundry, the platform as a service offering since it first came to light as a small project within VMware. Since then, Cloud Foundry has flourished – it’s achieved large-vendor buy in (IBM, HPE, and SAP…

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Whereas most VCs are justifiably known by the tongue-in-cheek Vulture Capital term, Foundry Group are the genuine good guys I’ve known of the Foundry Group venture capital firm for a few years now. I’m a long-time attendee of the…

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When Envestnet acquired banking feeds aggregator Yodlee a year or two ago, many of us suggested it was a strategy to add value on top of the screeds of data that Yodlee scrapes. The announcement of the new Financial…

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GE has always had technology as a core part of its offering. After all, you don’t build wind turbines, jet engines and gas plants without leveraging technology. But in recent years, the company has moved from being an industrial…

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As an emergency services worker (coming up to two decades as a Firefighter and previously a paramedic), I’m particularly interested in crisis response and specifically how technology can be applied to crisis situations. I’ve written about emergency communications networks…

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News from Adaptive Insights this week points to the changing role of the CFO Increasingly the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for an organization is charged with delivering far more than simply financial reporting and compliance. The CFO is increasingly…

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Slowly, but inexorably, DigitalOcean is broadening its franchise. This week, it’s Cloud Firewalls Back in the day, DigitalOcean was a simple thing to explain. They did cheap and cheerful cloud servers and storage. Think of Amazon Web Services (AWS)…

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I do a lot of startup mentoring both in New Zealand and overseas – I don’t have the temperament to focus on one thing and commit to a startup 100% but, in the absence of that focus, it’s super…

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