Ben Horowitz
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"Ben Horowitz" is an American businessman, investor, blogger, and author. He is a high technology entrepreneur and co-founder and general partner along with Marc Andreessen of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He co-founded and served as president and chief executive officer of the enterprise software company Opsware, which Hewlett-Packard acquired for $1.6 billion in cash in July 2007. Horowitz is the author of The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers. In the book, published on March 4, 2014 by HarperCollins, Horowitz offers advice on building and running a startup.

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[Still, to lure people into the program will require some ingenuity. ] There's a lot of inertia built into paying bills, ... If you don't provide the customer with more things of interest, they're not going to come online just to save you money.

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One of the most vexing issues in most companies is the duplex mismatching problem.

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For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.

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System administrators will get visibility into which servers are linked to which network devices. Currently when a switch goes down it's not easy to see which servers are impacted. Also, adding a new web server to a load balancer currently requires the load balancer to be updated.

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This is a partnership where we're working deeply with Cisco, and the deal will be particularly important for us as we sell into firms using Cisco kit.

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