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An American-Israeli Sushi-Humus Grill-Bar
In my May post A Mexican, a Sicilian and a Greek Walk Into a Restaurant I discussed how three different restaurants,in the same location, next to our start-up office, went out of business one after...
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Why Won’t The Big Big Giant Eat You for Lunch ?
Oh, man! We killed Mr. Burns! Mr. Burns is gonna be so mad! – Homer Simpson Giant Stepping On A Small Company One of the most annoying questions I had to answer in last couple of years was “Why can’t...
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Bar Refaeli, DNA Sequencing and Cloud Computing
Much like Bar Refaeli and Leonardo DiCaprio, DNA Sequencing and cloud computing go hand in hand together. I had a very interesting conversation with a friend yesterday about DNA Sequencing and cloud...
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Lady Ga-Ga or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Facebook
The western world ended quite suddenly. The news, and pictures, about Lady Ga-Ga actually being a man, were first reported by Steve Jobs as he presented Apple’s new iPlot gadget at a secret location....
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Commodity Clouds? You must be kidding
A commodity is a good for which there is demand, but which is supplied without qualitative differentiation across a market. Commodities are substances that come out of the earth and maintain roughly a...
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Does SLA really mean anything?
I believe most SLA’s (Service Level Agreements) are meaningless. In the world of Software as a Service and cloud computing it has become a very popular topic, but the reality is very different from...
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Commodity Clouds, IAAS and PAAS – Part II
In the first post we looked at some common mistakes resulting in premature “Commoditization” declarations. In this post we would look at IAAS and PAAS in more detail. In software, it is rare to have...
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New Version Every Other Week – Part II
In part one I covered some principles that allow us to sustain a rate of a new version every two weeks. In this post I’ll discuss some of the customer facing challenges and how to overcome them....
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Cloud Computing in the Year 2000
I came across my old unborn thesis proposal from the year 2000. The gist of the thesis was to evaluate the economical value of cloud computing However, the proposal was rejected by my Professor as...
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Can You Make Money Writing Algorithms? – Part III
“Money For Nothing and the (K) Nearest Neighbors Are Free”, Doctor Mark Knopfler In 2007 I wrote Why it is hard to make money form algorithms and How new technologies allow making money from...
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Public Cloud is Better than On-Premise and Netflix vs Zynga proves it
There is a common myth that for super large scale companies it makes sense to build their own data center instead of using a public cloud. In many cases I believe this is exactly the opposite. For many...
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