Alexander Haislip

Author of Essentials of Venture Capital. Tech/Finance Writer. Thought Leader at Rackspace, the Open Cloud Company.

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"Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less." -R.E.Lee

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"It's not the big that eat the small, it's the fast that eat the slow..." And they typically get indigestion w/o expert help #rackspacesolve

[Wayne Walls @waynewalls]

Scaling isn't just adding servers, but it’s also about figuring out fastest way to serve customers through data connections #rackspacesolve

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"We want to do to big data what Excel did to old school data processing" says @newrelic CEO. Exciting vision 4 data nerds. #rackspacesolve

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"You can't just read a blog and do devops on a multi-tier application." says @WePay CEO, that's what they come to @rackspace #rackspacesolve

[jill wohlner @JillWohlner]

Creating this @Rackspace sticker is the single greatest thing I've accomplished in my job. I'm not even kidding.

[VanL @VanL]

The power of docker is that it allows devs to focus on content creation and not on the problems of distribution. @golubbe at #rackspacesolve

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@Rackspace committed to delivering the databases developers demand. Nice to see it in the news http://t.co/RogxQz5Gku and at #rackspacesolve

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"It should be easier to ship applications from one datacenter to another than to ship car parts halfway around the world." @docker's CEO

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@DrScottOttaway We're focused on the databases that matter to developers. Happy to discuss in detail, if you're interested.

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Learning about "the cloud" from @camerondiaz is one way, but we think there's a better way says @jengates at #rackspacesolve.

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Focusing on what really differentiates you as a company--not on a maze of IT issues--is what customers want says @jengates #rackspacesolve

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Ever since @rackspace launched #OnMetal, people ask me how much does it cost & when can I get it? Answers today: http://t.co/8cxsrdq6CM

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I'm blown away by the vision @kordless has for a distributed compute future. Read this eye-opener: https://t.co/zZ3qQYb4gQ

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Want a challenge? Leave your startup and join a big company: https://t.co/ZWfnPvc4RF

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Fast and Freaky Technology on Display at GigaOm Structure. Cloud is in an evolution stage. The Revolution is over. http://t.co/hS1aiPXH1k

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Proud of the team for announcing free backups for MongoDB, live on stage at #MongoDBWorld : http://t.co/CK6E5NTgIi @ObjectRocket

[Paul Querna @pquerna]

This is what I've been working on: https://t.co/9qsBBodSxd - this Thursday - 7:30pm - Rackspace SF.

[Brent Hoberman @brenthoberman]

Ben Horowitz on stage at Cannes : the difference between vision and hallucination is that other people can see vision

[Alexander Haislip @ahaislip]

@jayprikh says FB using "free space optics" to beam Facebook to the developing world. They put freaking lasers on the Net. #gigaomlive