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Times are officially tough: Sequoia says so

Times are officially tough: Sequoia says soSequoia Capital Meeting: Our take on the economy and on-demand adoptionAs a Sequoia portfolio company, we actually had a slightly different take on this meeting. Read more here: http://www.appirio.com/blog/2008/10/chris-barbin-theres-lot-of-talk-today.php

Tags: cloud computing, Sequoia

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

Times are officially tough: Sequoia says so

Talk about the insulated bubble that is Silicon Valley. Sequoia, one of the best venture capital firms out there, emails a bunch of portfolio companies and tells them to hunker down. And now everyone notices that things may not be so peachy in Web 2.0-ville. GigaOm has...

Tags: Web, Sequoia, E-mail, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, Government, Channel Management, Investment, Online Communications, Finance, Financing Startups, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Sequoia bets on enterprise apps in the cloud

Sequoia bets on enterprise apps in the cloudA Future On-DemandGreat description of our philosophy and approach. As you noted and we expand on in our blog we are just as excited about what doesn't change -our core business model- as we are about what does - being even more...

Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Groupware, Google Gmail, Sequoia, enterprise app, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Additional Resources

How will Silicon Valley startups be affected by a downturn?

Things were tough enough for startups in Silicon Valley before the credit crunch financial crisis because of extremely few exit strategies. There are almost no IPOs, and the M&A market has slowed to a trickle. The latest Wall Street crisis isn't helping. Here is a some...

Tags: Silicon Valley, IPO, Mergers & Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Financing Startups, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-10-13

News to know: IBM earnings, Blackberry Storm, WiMax arrives, Oracle+ Primavera

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: IBM reports early. Profits up 20 percent, full year estimates reaffirmed. Larry Dignan: IBM: Beats earnings target but... Times are officially...

Tags: Touch Screen, Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, RIM BlackBerry, Earnings, IBM Corp., E-mail, Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, WiMAX, Monitors & Displays, Online Communications, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Wireless, Components, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-09

News to know: Mozilla; Windows Server; LinuxWorld; Apple

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Talking Firefox security with Mozilla's Window Snyder Mary Jo Foley: What's next for Windows Server Microsoft finalizes SQL Server 2008 TechRepublic: 10 questions and answers about Microsoft Live Mesh Dancho Danchev: Today's...

Tags: google inc., larry dignan, microsoft windows server, server, apple inc., mozilla corp., linux, phishing, smart phones, service-oriented architecture (soa), cyberthreats, microsoft windows, operating systems, unix, open source, software, security, spam and phishing, consumer electronics, personal technology, web services, enterprise software

Blog posts 2008-08-07

Video: Oracle's CIO on 'Project Sequoia'

At the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, Oracle CIO Mark Sunday explains the techniques behind Project Sequoia, the company's new data center in Utah. By utilizing outside air, hot aisle containment, and independently controlled supercells, he says this will be its most efficient center yet. by Larry Dignan

Tags: cio, oracle corp., video, data centers, productivity, corporate communications, storage, hardware, data management, marketing, larry dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-06

Oracle announces Project Sequoia

At the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, Oracle CIO Mark Sunday explains the techniques behind Project Sequoia, the company's new data center in Utah. By utilizing outside air, hot aisle containment, and independently controlled supercells, he says this will be its most efficient center yet.

Tags: oracle corp., data centers, productivity, storage, hardware, data management, linuxworld, linux, oracle

Videos 2008-08-06

Oracle: Gimme an L. Gimme an I. Gimme an N-U-X

Enterprise software giant Oracle is at LinuxWorld this week, positioning itself as head cheerleader for widespread adoption in the Enterprise. In addition to a keynote speech that discussed Oracle's position around Linux, as well as details of its own deployment, there were two announcements issued today. The...

Tags: data center, oracle corp., linux, data centers, unix, operating systems, open source, software, storage, hardware, data management, sam diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-06

Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide

Convicted spammer Eddie Davidson, who escaped from federal prison over the weekend, killed his wife and 3-year-old daughter before killing himself in what is being described as a murder-suicide. Colorado's 9News.com said the tragic end of the man known as the "Spam King" was confirmed by the...

Tags: Prison, Sheriff, Internal Revenue Service, Attorney, Healthcare, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-24

2009 Subaru Forester 2.5X Premium

Photo gallery:2009 Subaru Forester 2.5X PremiumIn a major update, the 2009 Subaru Forester features a longer wheelbase and a modernized exterior design. And, for the first time, a navigation system is available. Unfortunately, our test vehicle was the low trim 2.5X Premium model, and navigation can only be had in...

Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Subaru Forester, Subaru

Product reviews 2008-07-22

News to know: Apple, Crapware; Icahn and Yahoo; Brocade

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Apple's Mac shipments surge; Lowballs on outlook; Jobs health worries Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple reports record Q3 08 Does Apple need to announce a post Steve Jobs plan? Dennis Howlett: Apple chaos theory Jason O'Grady: Apple Q3 2008...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Sony Corp., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Apple Inc., Mice, Utility Computing, 3G, Open Source, Hardware, Peripherals, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Sequoia bets on enterprise apps in the cloud

Big-hitting VC firm Sequoia Capital has invested in SaaS pureplay integrator Appirio, making a bet that bringing cloud applications to the enterprise will prove to be a disruptive opportunity. by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Professional Services, Sequoia Capital, Appirio, Cloud Computing, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Seesmic raises another $6 million. Why?

TechCrunch mentions the fact Seesmic has raised another $6 million. My question is why? In a Skype conversation with Loic LeMeur, Seesmic's CEO I asked whether the company had burned through the first $6 million. The answer a flat no. I then recalled a conversation we had...

Tags: Mobile, Money, Seesmic, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-06-20

LinkedIn raises $53 million

LinkedIn has raised another $53 million in venture capital to give the company a rough valuation of $1 billion. The social networking company said in a post that its latest round was led by Bain Capital Ventures, which joins...

Tags: LinkedIn, Social Networking, Venture Capital, Investment, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, Financing Startups, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Build your own Google

In an earlier post I talked a bit about a start-up called Kickfire who are releasing an accelerated database appliance for MySQL applications in the 1TB-3TB range that gives comparable performance to an equivalent Oracle RDBMS setup for around a quarter of the price. Kickfire sounds compelling for utility...

Tags: Google Inc., Worker, Aster, Aster Beehives, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-06-05

OXML as Microsoft's swivel point

My apologies for not writing more this week. A rather interesting twist in my IT career occurred recently, which I'll relate later. It's exciting stuff which will involve lots of travel to rarely-visited parts of the world (well, rarely visited by me). But enough of that. I...

Tags: ISO, Microsoft Corp., Nothing, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-04-18

eVoting systems come under fire

eVoting systems come under fireNot truly independent review...I'm sorry, but if Sequoia is hiring the outside vendor to conduct the audit, then the external parties' independence is already suspect.State vs FedRunning elections is a State power. I am always leery of stealing power from the Sates and moving it...

Tags: Quality, e-voting, standards, Federal Reserve Board

Discussion threads 2008-03-21

eVoting systems come under fire

As reported by Robert McMillan and Elizabeth Montalbano at IDG News Service, Sequoia voting systems web site has been hacked and subsequently taken down. Sequoia and its voting system is not new to the news, as it was recently investigated by the Attorney General of New Jersey...

Tags: Sequoia Software, New Jersey, Sequoia Voting Systems, E-voting, Intellectual Property, Government, Research & Development, Business Operations, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-03-20

With friends like these... how can Seesmic fail?

Having secured $5.5 million of funding from investment group Atomico (Skype's Niklas Zennstrom, Janus Friis and co.), Loic Le Meur admits he didn't need the money. And yet he's enlisted a further twelve individual backers for his new startup Seesmic -- which has been described as "Twitter for video" --...

Tags: Board, Connection, Image, Investor, Seesmic, Pendants, VC, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-02-18