Trying my hardest to avoid making flippant comments referencing Monty Python’s “don’t mention the war” sketch, I’ll try and stick to the facts of this story. It seems the German federal government is none too keen to see data…

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Scality has been around for awhile now, founded back around 2010, the storage player was the first to build a commercial storage offering with a full fidelity interface to Amazon S3 – back when Amazon S3 was still largely…

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OpenStack poster child Mirantis signaled some time ago that it was moving on from being a pure-play OpenStack shop and would instead be looking at supporting a range of open source technologies in order to justify its existence build…

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Debt is often the anchor that traps people in a sub-optimal life. On a low income and need to pay for some medical care? Often the solution is to turn to money lenders who offer the allure of easy…

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Important alert: there are going to be a lot of three-letter-acronyms in this post (and the odd four-letter one as well) News this morning from the FIDO Alliance and W3C relating to a new standard for browser-based web authentication.…

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As if the recent news about Cambridge Analytica wasn’t enough, here’s another story. Because, after all, we’re all just mice to be trained to perform to the whims of others. There is much hand-wringing and angst about Artificial Intelligence…

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Simon Crosby is something of an over-achiever. Not only does he have the tendency towards wearing lovely pink shirts, he’s also a technology company founding machine. Subsequent to completing his Ph.D., Crosby went on to found a range of…

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Rubrik is one of the big disruptive forces in the storage world. The company, which has raised squillions of dollars from investors who are super bullish about the existential threat that Rubrik creates for legacy companies such as NetApp…

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Raygun is a company that I first got involved in as an investor (and, for a brief period, as a board member) a few years ago. Raygun was formed out of an earlier developer tools company, Mindscape. But while…

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Awhile ago I wrote a frustrated post after being pitched some blockchain-enriched solutions. Blockchain fashion show, blockchain toothpaste, blockchain animal supplements, it seems everything that can be sold, is a candidate for blockchainization. The pity about this all is…

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