Author Archives: Carter

Posted in Opinion

Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff greatly exaggerate the death of the Web

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Carter

Echoing an observation by the musician Prince, Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff’s must-read article in this month’s Wired foretells the death of the Web (full disclosure: I worked with Michael on a book project in 1992 and have been friends …

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Posted in Industry

Vera Wang’s husband steps down as CEO of Navisite

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Carter

Only days after a failed bid (from his own investment firm, Atlantic Investors) to take Navisite private, Arthur Becker is stepping down as Navisite’s CEO, a position he’s held for the past 8 years. The company’s President, R. Brooks Borcherding …

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Posted in Events

Is “Inception” a parable about virtualization?

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Carter

Couldn’t not post this: Original tweet here.

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Posted in Hardware, Industry, Servers

Was the real reason for Mark Hurd’s ouster from HP that he was a douche?

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Carter

It helps to remember that HP is not just the printer/server/desktop company we now know them as, but in Silicon Valley, HP is the ur-technology company. They were the first garage startup, the original engineering-centric-company-that-won, the boot camp that spawned …

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Posted in Events

Dell to buy 3PAR for $1.15 Billion

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Carter

Fresh off the heels of their outing for screwing their customers (how could I not have covered that yet?), Dell announced today they’re getting into the enterprise storage market in a big way. 3PAR is one of the powerhouses in …

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Posted in Events

New SSD entrant Anobit promises longer SSD lifespan

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Carter

Israeli-based Anobit announced new SSD drives based on their own Memory Signal Processor controller, which extends MLC NAND lifespan through a special error-correction algorithm. Anobit’s VP of Biz Dev, Gilad Engel, touted the drives’ capabilities: Engel said the 200GB Genesis …

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Posted in Industry

Venture Capital’s Epic Fail

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Carter

Having first been an ISP and then a hosting provider, there has been no love lost between Logicworks and the Venture Capital community. It is completely nauseating to hear some VC guy scraping management fees say, “Isn’t that something anyone …

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Posted in Events

Logicworks, Zeus and Coresite at the Core Club

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Carter

Earlier this summer, Logicworks held an event at the Core Club in midtown Manhattan with our partners Zeus and Coresite. The highlights of the evening were hands-down the presentations given by clients Constantinos Giatras of Cellfish Media and Jessica Zahnd of Converseon. …

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