“Incremental change may be good theory, but in practice you have to have a big enough stick to hit everybody with to make everything move at once”. So shares Adrian Cockcroft, who helped lead Netflix’s ...

It’s not just the likes of Google, Facebook, and Amazon that lean on a massive and growing corpus of data, today every company is a data-driven company. In this world, access to data — and how you manage it ̵...

  a16z’s Peter Levine goes deeper into the changing nature of the data center with Yoram Novick, CEO of Maxta, and Florian Leibert, CEO of Mesosphere. Does ARM architecture, the foundation of the chips in prac...

There is a shift in enterprise hardware from expensive, proprietary hardware to cheap components plucked directly from the consumer hardware supply chain. While that trend has been underway for some time thanks to compan...

The datacenter has long been — there’s no nice way to put this — a bit of a snoozer. Expensive boxes running expensive software. No more, says a16z General Partner Peter Levine, who lays out a vision fo...

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...

The mobile revolution has spread beyond the mini supercomputers in our hands all the way to the datacenter.

A new architectural era in computing is upon us, and the datacenter is changing to accommodate it. The cloud generation of companies has ramped their dominance and proven their models, and the legacy enterprise is close ...

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 furth...