We just launched a very simple website for my new company, VMTurbo. If
you’re interested in VMware, virtualization, or cloud, drop in and register
so we can keep you up to date with what we’re doing.
We also just grabbed the VMTurbo twitter account, although we’re not using
it yet. Feel free to follow us and eventually I promise we will be tweeting
some good virtualization-related nuggets!
Also, I’ll be at VMworld next week with our cofounders…hope to see some
of you there.
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I wish LinkedIn would allow me to forward an email to an alias (like
Salesforce, Basecamp, Tripit, and various other services that allow records
to be added via email) and then automatically send a connection request to
the person who was in the From: line from the original email. Seems like it
would be a good thing for LinkedIn as well, because it would remove the
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3Par, a Fremont, Calif.-based maker of storage arrays for data centers,
pre-announced lowered earnings for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2009
yesterday, blaming, among other things, the fact that customers don’t have
access to the electricity needed to add 3Par gear to their data centers.
via Constrained Power Grids Zap Sales at 3Par.
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My favorite portfolio CEO quote of the day – “Pleasant persistence
overcomes resistance.”
via Joe Medved (joevc) on Twitter.
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Convenience is hugely attractive in organizations because it is easy to
defend and easy to approve. You don’t need to call a meeting to try
something new, because the convenient option has already been approved. The
problem is that convenient approaches rarely break through or generate
extraordinary returns.
via Seth’s Blog: Circles of Convenience.
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