Category Archives: SaaS

The next reincarnation of cloud computing

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Simeon Simeonov

Over Memorial Day weekend I wanted to play with CrunchBase data. I wrote a quick bash script that pulled data from CrunchBase and put it in MongoDB, one of the new databases from the NoSQL movement. In the process, I … Continue reading →

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Forced Upgrades

Posted on June 6, 2008 by Simeon Simeonov

Rolling out a product upgrade used to be a big deal. Decades ago it was about replacing boards and ICs. Twenty years ago it was about shipping stacks of floppies and hoping they survive the UPS trip. A decade ago … Continue reading →

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Amazon Web Services Outage: Causes And Remedies

Posted on February 16, 2008 by Simeon Simeonov

If been a big fan of Amazon Web Services (AWS) because they lower the costs of startup experimentation. I’ve sponsored their events, judged their startup competition, etc. I have friends on the team. I’ve also had frank conversations with them … Continue reading →

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Bringing Security to the Masses

Posted on January 12, 2008 by Simeon Simeonov

Xconomy did a good write up on Veracode. Matt’s point below is spot on: the only way to address the application security problem is (a) through technology as opposed to people and (b) through easy-to-adopt SaaS solutions as opposed to … Continue reading →

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Amazon Web Services Startup Challenge

Posted on December 4, 2007 by Simeon Simeonov

I’m heading to Seattle tomorrow for the AWS Startup Challenge finals. Many entered the competition with the hope of winning fame & glory, $50K in cash, $50K in AWS credit and an investment offer from Amazon (the details of which … Continue reading →

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Shifting The Cost/Benefit Conversation

Posted on November 28, 2007 by Simeon Simeonov

Had a great dinner last night in the Valley with a group of founder/CEOs. At one point in the evening the conversation shifted to a topic that’s near and dear to my heart as I continually find myself challenging entrepreneurs … Continue reading →

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Google Addressing the "Facebook issue"

Posted on September 23, 2007 by Simeon Simeonov

I’ve been slammed with two financings but this news merits taking time on a Sunday night to blog… Ever since word got out that Brad Fitzpatrick (previously chief architect at Six Apart) had joined Google people had a pretty clear idea what Brad’s … Continue reading →

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Emerging Ecosystems & Platforms

Posted on July 12, 2007 by Simeon Simeonov

I’m at David Kirkpatrick’s iMeme conference in SF. It’s likely going to be a treat. The speakers and the attendees are of great caliber. As an ex-platform guy who’s recently spent a lot of time thinking about social infrastructure, I’m … Continue reading →

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Google Gears Powers Web-to-Desktop Convergence

Posted on May 31, 2007 by Simeon Simeonov

Google Gears will bring offline processing to AJAX applications, which promises to be a step towards closing the last big delta between traditional desktop and Web 2.0 applications. Web-to-desktop convergence is a very interesting topic and one that is bound to … Continue reading →

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Analysis: Automated Code Scanners

Posted on April 17, 2007 by Simeon Simeonov

One of the best articles I’ve seen on application security analysis. Of course, some of the problem with current approaches are remedied when one takes a binary, SaaS approach and issues are scrubbed for false positives by trained security experts–in … Continue reading →

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