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Data has long been lauded as a competitive moat for companies, and that narrative’s been further hyped with the recent wave of AI startups. Network effects have been similarly promoted as a defensible force in building s...
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Editor’s note: This recent podcast interview of Marc Andreessen was conducted by Brian Koppelman, writer (Rounders, Ocean's Thirteen, etc.), director, and showrunner (with David Levien) of Billions. The full Q&A is t...
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In 2017 The Economist declared data to be the world's most valuable resource. And yet “data insight” is one of those phrases that, while important, is now so ubiquitous it’s been numbed of meaning. So how do you actually...
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As we enter a new era of distributed computing -- and of big data, in the form of machine and deep learning -- storage becomes (even more) important. It might not be sexy, but storage is what makes the internet and cloud...
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Here at a16z, we treat “big data” and “machine learning” as connected activities. People have been talking about the need for more 'analysis' and insight in big data, which is obviously important, because we’ve been in t...
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Imagine carrying around a bag of cell phones everywhere because you needed to use a new and separate piece of hardware for every single app -- games, email, etc. -- that you currently run on a single smartphone today.
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A while back I wrote a blog post suggesting that datacenter infrastructure would move from an on-premise operation to the cloud. It may have seemed counter-intuitive that the infrastructure itself would become available...
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The mobile revolution has spread beyond the mini supercomputers in our hands all the way to the datacenter.
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The promise of big data has ushered in an era of data intelligence. From machine data to human thought streams, we are now collecting more data each day, so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created i...
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With all the recent innovations in flash storage design, you’d think we’d have a smooth path toward supporting storage requirements for new hyper-scale datacenters and cloud computing. However, nothing could be further f...
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DataGravity is poised to transform the storage landscape. The company represents a once-in-a-decade opportunity to create an entirely new category of storage by unlocking the value of data that today sits idle in a stora...
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SAP bought Business Objects for $6.78 billion dollars. Oracle bought Hyperion for $3.3 billion dollars. IBM bought Cognos for $4.9 billion dollars.
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When I first met Suhail Doshi, the CEO of Mixpanel, I was blown away by his passion, focus and vision for his company. Here was a twenty-something, technical founder who articulated the perfect vision for collecting and...
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Facts are simple and facts are straight
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Data underlies every Web site, gaming company, social network and enterprise computing environment. We’re talking massive quantities, too, created by users and computers, and getting bigger all the time. In fact, we’ve...
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In 2017 The Economist declared data to be the world's most valuable resource. And yet “data insight” is one of those phrases that, while important, is now so ubiquitous it’s been numbed of meaning. So how do you actually...
-
As we enter a new era of distributed computing -- and of big data, in the form of machine and deep learning -- storage becomes (even more) important. It might not be sexy, but storage is what makes the internet and cloud...
-
We're starting to see the very early stages of a tech stack emerge in generative artificial intelligence (AI). Hundreds of new startups are rushing into the market to develop foundation models, build AI-native apps, and...
-
The Data50 are the 50 bellwether data startups across the most exciting categories in data, such as AI/ML, ELT and orchestration, and data observability.
-
To help data teams stay on top of the changes happening in the industry, this article reviews an updated set of data infrastructure architectures.
-
Data has long been lauded as a competitive moat for companies, and that narrative’s been further hyped with the recent wave of AI startups. Network effects have been similarly promoted as a defensible force in building s...
-
Editor’s note: This recent podcast interview of Marc Andreessen was conducted by Brian Koppelman, writer (Rounders, Ocean's Thirteen, etc.), director, and showrunner (with David Levien) of Billions. The full Q&A is t...
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An investor’s perspective on the financial discipline, disclosures, planning and delivering to plan, and strategic direction it takes to go public.
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This post is all about network effects and critical mass. But it’s also about applying those concepts as important mental models in business, so I will share a short story about a business decision I once made that requi...
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Here at a16z, we treat “big data” and “machine learning” as connected activities. People have been talking about the need for more 'analysis' and insight in big data, which is obviously important, because we’ve been in t...
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Imagine carrying around a bag of cell phones everywhere because you needed to use a new and separate piece of hardware for every single app -- games, email, etc. -- that you currently run on a single smartphone today.
-
A while back I wrote a blog post suggesting that datacenter infrastructure would move from an on-premise operation to the cloud. It may have seemed counter-intuitive that the infrastructure itself would become available...
-
The mobile revolution has spread beyond the mini supercomputers in our hands all the way to the datacenter.
-
The promise of big data has ushered in an era of data intelligence. From machine data to human thought streams, we are now collecting more data each day, so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created i...
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[vimeo 89632040 w=720 h=404]
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With all the recent innovations in flash storage design, you’d think we’d have a smooth path toward supporting storage requirements for new hyper-scale datacenters and cloud computing. However, nothing could be further f...
-
DataGravity is poised to transform the storage landscape. The company represents a once-in-a-decade opportunity to create an entirely new category of storage by unlocking the value of data that today sits idle in a stora...
-
SAP bought Business Objects for $6.78 billion dollars. Oracle bought Hyperion for $3.3 billion dollars. IBM bought Cognos for $4.9 billion dollars.
-
When I first met Suhail Doshi, the CEO of Mixpanel, I was blown away by his passion, focus and vision for his company. Here was a twenty-something, technical founder who articulated the perfect vision for collecting and...
-
Facts are simple and facts are straight
-
Data underlies every Web site, gaming company, social network and enterprise computing environment. We’re talking massive quantities, too, created by users and computers, and getting bigger all the time. In fact, we’ve...