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I Salute You, Mr. Custom Stored Procedure Guy

Friday, July 24th, 2009

Borrowing a little from the Budweiser “Real Men of Genius” ad campaign, I want to use today’s post to sing the praises of one of the many ingenious IT guys we run into during the course of our business.
IT is certainly not an easy job. Dealing with hundreds if not thousands of moving pieces daily, [...]

Separate Marketing Hype from Product Reality

Friday, July 10th, 2009

We were in an analyst briefing the other week. It’s always good when these things get interactive, and the analyst fires great questions back at you. That shows they’re following, they get your story. In this particular briefing, after a few slides, the other end of the line was just silent. So we paused and [...]

Three Cheers for Andreessen Horowitz

Monday, July 6th, 2009

The press announcement from Marc and Ben’s new fund is dominating techmeme today. Congratulations are definitely in order – so here’s a shout out to our investors. Compared to other investment firms, Marc and Ben are not only visionaries, but they’ve also been deep-in-the-trenches practitioners – which really shines through in the advice you get [...]

Ten Best Practices for Optimizing BIG-IP Deployments

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

We had a great webinar yesterday, on the Top 10 Best Practices for Optimizing Application Delivery Controller Deployments, with a special emphasis for F5’s BIG-IP. (Given Jesse’s background, it’s hard to think of anyone who’s more qualified to talk about this subject really.) Thanks to those of you who took time out of your busy [...]