• yahoo

    Yahoo to lease servers, computer power to startups too

    As a part of its deckchair reshuffling, Yahoo created a new Cloud Computing & Data Infrastructure Group, led by newish CTO Ari Balogh. For now the group will focus on internal projects, but Balogh told News.com it could eventually offer cloud computing services for startups to compete with Amazon and Google. We recommend Yahoo do this, if only because unlike everyone else at Yahoo, its sounds as though Balogh might understand product marketing. For example, Balogh actually told News.com why Yahoo's service — which runs Hadoop and benefits from ""loosening ACID requirements" — is newer and therefore better than Google's. But Balogh didn't use the phrase "starting point" even once, so we're not optimistic about his tenure under CEO-in-waiting-but-not-very-patiently Sue Decker. (Photo by Yodel Anecdotal)

    8:40 AM on Fri Jun 27 2008
    By Nicholas Carlson
    1,393 views, 6 comments

    Latest by G2GdoB2B: Since all of Yahoo! is going to Microsoft servers, they will have a lot of free space... why not lease more »

  • breakdowns

    Yahoo's real leadership problem: David Filo

    Everyone's piling on Jerry Yang, saying Yahoo's founder-CEO needs to go. Why? The weak stock that provoked Microsoft's unsolicited bid may have been the result of his absentee ownership over the years. But Yahoo's deeper problem is the rot in its technical prowess. And that has everything to do with the quieter cofounder, David Filo. Filo has stayed behind the scenes, but wields considerable power over Yahoo's infrastructure. Requests for more hardware go through him, for example. When Yahoo executive Jeff Weiner joked in an internal all-hands movie about not going through IT because it was "too much paperwork," the audience surely laughed because they knew exactly what he meant. More »

    Feature

    5:00 PM on Wed May 7 2008
    By Owen Thomas
    7,498 views, 34 comments

    Latest by HiQCode: The statements above about HRC and paranoids are mostly true but don't begin to touch on what the deeper problem more »

  • makeover

    Can Ari Balogh "rewire" Yahoo? Probably not, but it will be fun to watch

    Check out Ari Balogh's geek makeover! In jumping from stiffly corporate VeriSign to stiffly corporate-but-trying-pretend-otherwise Yahoo, the CTO ditched the '70s mustache and switched to an open-necked sweater for a keynote at Web 2.0 Expo. The upshot: Yahoo is "rewiring" itself to be more "open." As with Balogh's sweater, those who use this openness to get a closer look may get frightened. Yahoo's software certainly requires rewiring, but putting a new layer on top of it and inviting software developers to build applications using Yahoo services won't solve the problem. As one ex-Yahoo put it to me, vast swaths of Yahoo are built on "spaghetti code," poorly maintained and poorly understood software that's prone to breakage. Opening this up to developers may lead to all kinds of surprises, but not the kind Yahoo's tech-indifferent executives hope for. (Photo by Dan Farber)

    2:40 PM on Thu Apr 24 2008
    By Owen Thomas
    946 views, 9 comments

    Latest by matto: @bloggerman: redo all the existing architecture in Ruby on Rails! That will surely be a Yahoo! Salvation. more »

  • exits

    Who's in, who's out at Yahoo after a Microsoft takeover

    This morning, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made the usual polite noises about "integrating" Yahoo's management into Microsoft. The reality? Come on. They're all fired, except for the geeks. If Microsoft had any respect for current management, they would have negotiated a friendly deal instead of launching a takeover. Most of the executive suite will be gone, I bet, within six months if the takeover succeeds. Here are the details on who's in and who's out, starting at the top. More »

    9:16 AM on Fri Feb 1 2008
    By Owen Thomas
    9,088 views, 12 comments

    Latest by tech-yahoo: You guys have no idea what you are talking about. In the tech engineering, yahoo only has two solid managers: more »

  • hires

    At last, Yahoo hires a chief technology officer

    Has Ari Balogh arrived too late? That's the key question for Yahoo's new CTO, freshly hired away from VeriSign. Balogh will take charge of all of Yahoo's engineering functions, essentially leaderless since former CTO Farzad Nazem quit last May. The new blood could bring some much-needed shakeups. Presumably, current tech executives Usama Fayyad, Qi Lu, and Ash Patel will report to him. One wonders how long that situation will last. Patel, in particular, has been checked out for some time, according to sources at Yahoo, and Balogh's hire may be his cue to leave. Balogh will have another challenge: VeriSign's reputation. More »

    1:52 PM on Tue Jan 29 2008
    By Owen Thomas
    2,447 views, 1 comment

    Latest by yawnster: Is this the best Yahoo can do now? All Verisign does is issue SSL certificates. Do you really need a CTO more »

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