All in Market Analysis
Today I have with me Haven Energy Co-Founder, Vinnie Campo. Haven Energy is a venture backed marketplace for electricians to connect with consumers for battery and solar installation. They are looking to take the complexity out of installing these systems by putting the people who want solar together with quality installers who can remove the roadblocks for getting it done.
The word that we hear over and over is transformation. Well, what happens when the company that helps you transform, transforms. Today we are going to be talking about the state of the technology industry and what matters now.
Today we are going to be talking about leadership and how to align a company to rapidly changing market conditions and building to where the ball is going to be rather than where it is today.
There has been huge growth in both cloud and SaaS, and with this has come the emergence of new business models and ways of selling. Today we are going to look at these new go to market strategies, and find out what the future of technology sales looks like.
In the world of emerging tech, Venture Capital plays a huge role. We have seen the rise of some of the biggest and most successful technology companies from the portfolios of VC firms. Still, much of it is shrouded in mystery. We are going to dig into Venture Capital.
There are some people in IT who become quite notable for always being at the center of great things. They enable others with their knowledge, and by doing so, they rise to legendary status within the community. Today we have just such a person, Duncan Epping.
Welcome back to another FUTRtech video podcast. In Part 2 we dig into more on China and Talk with Andrew about his Big Daddy Dough Rap career that helps educated people about China.
There has been a significant rise in the influence of Asian countries on the global stage, and some of it is hard to make sense of. We have a very special guest today who can help us make sense of all that is going on. Andrew Dougherty describes himself as a China Economist-Rapper, making sense of the Riddle Kingdom one Rhyme at a Time. Andrew is a China based economist polymath, who is smart as hell and has a huge wealth of knowledge about Asia, and he raps on top of that. Andrew uses rap to help educate people around the world about China.
Welcome back, This is part 4 and the final episode of my series on picking a data center. If you haven’t seen part 1 through 3, please check them out.
Last time we talked about cooling delivery systems, Fire Suppression systems and network. So let’s jump in and start with Security then we’ll talk about add-ons and finally, negotiating a contract.
So in the last two videos we covered building your own vs. leasing colo space, different tier levels, redundancy factors, frequently used terms, facility considerations, company financials, MEP, PUE and power systems. So if you haven’t seen the first two videos, you can check them out here.
Let’s talk about cooling. This is one of the most important and challenging features of a facility. Cooling capabilities are usually what limits the amount of power consumption and density of your facility. Cooling is dependent on the amount of energy you put into the room, the volume of the room and the amount of airflow.
Are you picking a data center? Unsure of what you should be looking for? Can’t figure out what makes one data center provider better than another? Well, you came to the right place.
In the last video I talked about building your own vs. leasing colo space (spoiler don’t build your own), and we talked about what the different tier levels mean and we talked about redundancy factors as well as some frequently used terms. So, if you didn’t see part 1 of this series, check it out here, I’ll wait.
As many of you may know, in my past life I was a CTO of a company that built high security mission critical data center facilities as well as owing and operating data center facilities.
I often talk with clients who are struggling with choosing data center space, so I wanted to give you a few tips when you are on the market looking. I have seen companies make a lot of mistakes over the years.
To quote statistician, Hans Rosling from his 2018 New York Times Best Seller:
“If the UN forecasts for Population growth are correct, and if incomes in Asia and Africa keep growing as now, then the center of gravity of the world market will shift over the next 20 years from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. Today, the people living in rich countries around the North Atlantic, who represent 11 percent of the world population, make up 60 percent of the Level 4 consumer market. Already by 2027, if incomes keep growing worldwide as they are doing now, then that figure will have shrunk to 50 percent. By 2040, 60 percent of Level 4 consumers will live outside the West.”
I want to talk about Everett Rogers
Everett Rogers was a communications studies professor, and in 1962 he published a book titled Diffusion of Innovations. This book talks about how innovation spreads through a community of people by diffusion.
This work grew out of the work sociologists and anthropologists from the late 19th and early 20th century did around agricultural technology. In particular around how farmers adopted hybrid seed technologies.
I have spoken in the past about the changing nature of IT. Businesses are increasingly becoming IT organizations. This is being driven by data becoming a strategic asset and driving top-line revenue. As IT moves from being a cost center to a profit center, it also moves from the sole realm of the infrastructure groups to the lines of business. Gartner published a somewhat controversial statistic that CMOs have larger technology budgets than CIOs.
We regularly sponsor dinners where we invite company founders and VCs from the valley to tell their story and lead a small group of industry leaders in conversation around relevant technology trends.
At this dinner, we discussed the changing nature of cloud and the rise of SaaS.
