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F5ers, AppWorld is coming very soon!! If you’re in the F5 ecosystem and you haven’t worked with WorldTechIT yet, here’s the chance!! WorldTechIT will be presenting a ton of innovations, including new features for their proprietary application for F5 management! Come check it out!! #f5 #appworld #worldtechit

This was our first LP/Fund Team/Portfolio Company mixer. With people located across the globe, it was a little hard to get everyone in the same room - especially when we're still raising. Thanks to a random encounter at SXSW, I met Joseph Mravca, and he convinced me to add a #poker tournament to enhance a meet + greet. Not only was it entertaining, it allowed our entire fund to come together whilst simultaneously offering a competitive element which had everyone gunning for the top prize. Most of our founders had never played before, but poker adds a lot of soft-skills that can enhance your presence in the board room - and this is especially important when you're an underrepresented founder (check out Poker Power for more info here). We're looking forward to making this a permanent fixture to our fund networking, because it allowed our founders to share their wins and challenges and engage the entire Chasing Rainbows ecosystem (not just our internal team) to ensure their success. NB: I want to note here that this was not rigged...lol. I was almost out...but I came back and ended up on top. Just like in the game, I've put everything into Chasing Rainbows, but I wouldn't do it, if the founders we're investing in didn't offer me exceptional upside. If you're interested in learning more about our fund, and more importantly who we're investing in, I'd love to invite you along to an upcoming Poker game...you can sign up for it here: https://lnkd.in/gJ9BUDNP And you can view the recap video here to see some of the conversations we had during the game: https://lnkd.in/gKkRHxU7

Are you following the NBA finals? 🏀 While the Boston Celtics are focused on the game, we're ensuring their data is secure. Mission is proud to be part of their success! Learn more about the Boston’s Celtics’ journey in the cloud: https://lnkd.in/gu6pUNev P.S. If you are passing through Logan Airport, check out our Mission Cloud and Celtics ad!

“If we can accept whatever hand we’ve been dealt—no matter how unwelcome—the way to proceed eventually becomes clear.” –Phil Jackson, “Sacred Hoops” Instances happen when we are unaware of the situation we are dealt, and other times, we are aware. We might overlook a small issue, only to have that issue grow with time. However, with more time, we will have a solution of which to fight the issue. We might see a small error at work and think nothing of it, only to be asked by a coworker why the issue wasn’t resolved. The resulting conversation eventually leads to a solution of the issue. We might think our decision (on how to combat an issue) is wise (in the moment), and then we find out we just lead ourselves into another issue (or a set of issues). Sometimes, a moment of deep reflection is needed to resolve the issue. Here's one story of how deep reflection helped solve a problem. In the mid-1960s chess world, two grandmasters (Mikhail Tal and Evgeni Vasiukov) were pitted against each other. After 18 moves, Tal suddenly had visions of a hippo in a marsh. The hippo in the marsh actually comes from a couplet written by Korney Chukovsky: “Oh, what a difficult job it was, to drag out of the marsh the hippopotamus.” Over the course of 40 minutes, Tal was trying to figure out how to remove that hippo. Eventually, Tal told himself to just let the hippo drown in the marsh; and after the hippo left the board, the position on the chessboard was much simpler than he first thought. Onlookers thought Tal spent the 40 minutes trying to figure out different lines (sets of moves) regarding the current position of the pieces. In an interview, Tal said he was actually trying to figure out how to remove the hippo from the marsh (instead of the position on the board). The match would continue nearly 40 more moves before Vasiukov resigned to Tal. Sometimes, a conversation is best in solving issues. Other times, all it takes to solve an issue is figuring out how to remove a hippo from a marsh. #matthewsbooknotes #circumstances #reflections In case you haven’t kept pace, Hannah Sandmeyer and I are locked in a dad joke challenge.  Here is the link to my second round joke, and the challenge concludes this Friday: https://lnkd.in/gtpcwufR

🎉 It's been 6 months since we onboarded Brenden Bongiorni, CSP and the rest of the Cleveland Brothers Equipment Co team! Like many companies, they struggled with the challenges of managing audiogram testing across multiple locations. Coordinating schedules was time-consuming, logistically tricky, and costly. But with Soundtrace, Brenden and his team now conduct audiogram testing during their routine safety visits to each location. All records are automatically stored in the cloud, providing a real-time compliance view. Seems simpler, doesn't it? 🚀 Read the full case study here: https://lnkd.in/ePzxNWmh

Watch Now: SkiBig3 Chooses VergeIO over VMWare and Public Cloud Special thanks to Chris Lamothe and Mitchell Matula of SkiBig3 for sharing (and showing) how they are using VergeIO to simplify IT and reduce costs. If you missed the live event, you can register here to watch it on demand. https://lnkd.in/dy83M2Be

Have you heard the recent announcement of Apple's My Photo Stream shutdown? 🍎🚫 Learn about the steps you can take to protect and preserve your priceless memories, from backing up your photos to exploring alternative cloud storage options. Don't let your precious moments vanish into the digital abyss—empower yourself with the knowledge to safeguard your visual story. ✨💻 #PreservingMemories #MyPhotoStreamShutdown #PhotoBackup #DigitalStorage #TEXUB

I'm excited to take our products forward into 2024. Most customers that we have use our services in one of three ways and are often not aware of the other options available so I thought I'd summarise here. 1. #managedservices We work as an extension of your own team to provide all source transcoding, repackaging and onwards transmission to affiliates as a 24/7 service or occasional use for sports. 2. #selfserve Our Livelink platform was built to allow customers to self provision and orchestrate best in class solutions in order to create broadcast specific workflows that suit them when (and where) they need them. 3. #whitelabel or future integrations. We often refer to Livelink internally as our Lego baseplate, the large grey rectangle from which all the best creations are formed. Livelink has already solved user management, security, billing, monitoring, alerts & notifications and scheduling whilst deploying third party vendors solutions. We would welcome conversations from other vendors on new additions to the current offering or offering the baseplate for provisioning and orchestration in your own ecosystem. Let's set something up for 2024 and start the best year yet with a bang. #broadcast #broadcastmedia #cloud #orchestration

#DevOpsDaysLA12x was a rousing success with the help of our dedicated partners, and we're continuing to thank them during the last week of 2023! We'd like to thank Observe, Inc., the observability cloud. With customers like Topgolf, Edgio, F5, Linedata and AuditBoard, Observe can ingest data from almost any source, in any format. Click the link in the comments to find out why SaaS observability with Observe means fewer incidents, more features & happy customers! #Observability #DataAnalytics #DataAggregation

Sysdig is built on the belief that security at cloud speed requires runtime insights — a belief we share with our customers, and one that has separated us since the beginning. 🚀 🎙️ Our CEO Suresh Vasudevan, who will soon be celebrating his 6th anniversary at Sysdig, sat down with Ping Li from VC firm Accel to discuss his role in shaping Sysdig into the #CloudSecurity leader it is today. Catch the full discussion on Accel’s 𝙎𝙥𝙤𝙩𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙊𝙣 to learn how embracing a “challenger mindset” has influenced every strategic move we've made. 👉 https://okt.to/OC9IRq