Compellent has been shipping its SAN appliances to small to medium-sized companies for three years, growing from $4 million in annual sales to more than $23 million last year. Part of the reason for that growth, says cofounder John Guider, is that Compellent executives have recognized the value of making an open source operating system one of the building blocks of the company’s SAN offerings. (more…)
January 12, 2008
May 12, 2007
ScienceLogic appliance leverages open source for network management
ScienceLogic launched three years ago with a mission to bring to market an IT appliance that could monitor every aspect of a company’s network infrastructure. CEO David Link calls it “dial tone service quality,” a term that has come to mean high reliability and easy accessibility. To accomplish that mission, Link knew that open source software was the key, both internally and in ScienceLogic’s flagship product, the EM7. (more…)
April 17, 2006
Smart Kitchen Appliances
I wrote this back in 2000 for a site that was called InfoApps.com. Chris Heuer founded it. His driving entrepreneurial spirit reminds me a little of Michael Robertson of mp3.com fame.
Within ten years, 98 percent of household appliances will be networked and controlled from remote locations. In other words, I’ll never have to worry about forgetting to turn off the coffee maker again. Can you imagine the money I’ll save by not having to buy replacement coffee pots once a month? (more…)
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