I'm happy to announce that I've agreed to pitch in as a TechStars Mentor for
their new Cloud accelerator program.
For those of you unfamiliar with TechStars, it's the #1 startup accelerator
in the world. Not to mention one of the most selective – although thousands
of companies apply each year, they only take about ten companies per program.
This gives them a selection rate lower than most Ivy League schools, so you
have to be among the best of the best to be in TechStar.
TechStars Cloud is a vertically-focused accelerator that funds companies
focused exclusively on cloud computing and cloud infrastructure. For me, the
more exciting aspect of the TechStars Cloud program is that it's
specifically targeting cloud infrastructure startups exclusively. Yes,
something I have a bit of experience with.
What do you get? How's $100k cash sound? Oh did I mention it's provided b... (more)
With all the sudden interest in the realtime and semantic web it seems that
the bigger opportunity for an open and transparent government isn't in
providing a back library of data but instead providing a realtime information
stream. A data stream that could provide real, tactical insight into the
areas of government that are actually useful for businesses looking for an
edge in this tough economic climate.
In a recent quote on GCN.com , federal chief information officer Vivek Kundra
indicated that he "wants to continue to move agencies away from warehousing
the data they collect ... (more)
Big news from Sun Microsystems today on several fronts, first there is talk
of an IBM / Sun merger and second Sun has offically unveiled their Open Cloud
Platform & API. Exciting news on both fronts.
As a member of the Sun Cloud Computing Strategic Advisory Council, I have
been working closely with Sun since last year in an effort to guide their
direction in terms of openness, portability and interoperability on their
cloud efforts. These are areas I believe Sun has done a tramendous job of
addressing in their latest cloud offering. Lew Tucker, Tim Bray, Craig
McClanahan and the... (more)
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently released a
draft "Guide to Adopting and Using the Security Content Automation Protocol"
(SCAP) for public review. The guide takes a close look at what they describe
as "the need for a comprehensive, standardized approach to overcoming
security challenges found within a modern enterprise IT environment". In case
you're not familiar with SCAP, it comprises a suite of specifications for
organizing and expressing security-related information in standardized ways,
as well as related reference data, such as identifiers ... (more)
Reuven Cohen's Blog
For nearly as long as the internet has been around there have been private
subnetworks called the darknets. These private, covert and often secret
networks were typically formed as decentralized groups of people engaged in
the sharing of information, computing resources and communications typically
for illegal activities.
Recently there has been a resurgence in interest of the darknet ranging from
the more unsavory such as P2P filesharing and botnets as well as more
mainstream usages such as inter-government information sharing, bandwidth
alliances or even off... (more)
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