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Austin Ventures veterans start growth firm Elsewhere Partners
A pair of Austin Ventures veterans announced they have started Elsewhere Partners, a Texas-based growth-stage firm targeting business software companies outside the country’s traditional venture-capital hubs. The investors, Chris Pacitti and John Thornton, both general partners at Austin Ventures and now partners at Elsewhere, are joined by Sam Kentor, formerly with JMI Equity. Elsewhere so far has invested $30 million, though it did not
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Elsewhere Partners launches to invest in software startups outside the coastal hubs
Today, Austin Ventures general partners Chris Pacitti and John Thornton, along with former Bain consultant Sam Kentor, announced that they are launching a new firm, Elsewhere Partners, to invest in companies outside of the traditional venture capital hubs of New York, Boston, and San Francisco. Elsewhere Partners’ focus will specifically be on business software companies that
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Austin Venture Firm AVX Partners Changes Name to Elsewhere Ventures
Austin—The founders of an Austin venture capital firm that invests in software companies have renamed the firm to Elsewhere Partners because its founders say it reflects the investors’ interest in companies located in cities that don’t traditionally have much access to venture capital. Previously known as AVX Partners, which was founded in 2015, the firm decided
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Innovation to Cisco’s Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) Offers Service Providers Future Horizontal Scalability
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Technology to Help Enable Service Providers to Manage More Than One Million Devices in Their Networks BARCELONA, SPAIN–(Marketwired – Feb 28, 2017) – MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS – With more than 10 billion devices and connections projected by 2020, according to Cisco’s (NASDAQ: CSCO) Mobile Visual Networking Index Forecast (2016-2021), service providers will need the scalability
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Intent-Based Networking: Marketing Hype or a Magic Bullet for Automation?
While not a new idea, intent-based networking has recently made a resurgence as the technology catches up with the concept. In a recent Heavy Reading report, “Intent-Based Networking: Automating Next-Generation Networks,” Senior Analyst James Crawshaw examines whether intent-based networking (IBN) holds water as a promising approach for telcos looking to operate more efficient and automated
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The Right Way To Automation and Configuration
It is a pretty well-known fact by now that the internet outage on Nov 6, 2017 was a direct result of a configuration error. What is not known is just how such a common occurrence in the network, a config change, could have been allowed to happen at a time and in such a way
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Enabling The Future Network Through Automation
In a recent keynote Marcus Weldon (Bell Labs President and Nokia CTO) and Vint Cerf (ForMemRS) put forth the idea that IoT is going to have such a profound impact on the world that it could essentially dissolve country boundaries. According to comments on this keynote by Keri Kukral (CEO & Founder at Raw Science), who was in
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Priority Shift On Automation and MANO Spending
As people spend less on their networks, we are seeing interesting things happening in the vendor space. We are seeing some vendors pivot away from their original strategy, often a heavy service provider NFV focus, in order to try and kickstart growth. We also see open source consolidation where projects that were considered contenders in the MANO
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Hype Machine: NFV/SDN Versus Automation – Are They The Same Thing?
Before I waste any time let me go ahead and answer the question in the title with a resounding NO…now let’s get into why that is the case. A recent Light Reading article on the “cost of automation” says, “…automation is the end game for virtualizing network infrastructure and services using NFV and SDN.” While
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It’s All About Your Use Case…
I recently spoke at NANOG 70 in Bellevue, Washington on the topic of vendor hype in the space versus the reality of what we can and can’t do right now with automation. A huge part of my topic was that some of the tooling out there now is just not to a maturity point yet
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