Vote for Ksplice!

Vote for Ksplice! (One sentence executive summary: If youre willing to support an amazing example of what MIT alumni can do after MIT, please click here to cast your vote for Ksplice in the Forbes Boost Your Business Competition!) One of the aspects of MIT culture I most enjoy is the Institutes culture of entrepreneurship. MIT students (and professors!) dont just want to learn about science and technology we want to apply our knowledge to make the world a better place. Another cornerstone of MIT culture is that were highly collaborative. Instead of competing with one another, we work together and rely on each other to pull through. So, in the spirit of entrepreneurship and collaboration, Im doing something I dont normally do on my blog. Id like to ask you all to do me a big favor and consider voting for Ksplice, an MIT-founded tech startup, in Forbes Boost Your Business Competition. Their concept is actually a beautiful example of tackling hard problems on a foundational level. Ksplice was founded by four MIT alums and friends of mine (Jeff 07, Waseem 07, Tim 07, and Anders 08) on the principle that security updates are incredibly valuable for companies, but restarting servers to apply these updates cost thousands of dollars in uptime or other costs. Ksplices answer? Make reboots obsolete by ksplicing in security patches on the go, without any loss of uptime. The Linux world has really taken hold of their concept theyve won a ton of competitions and awards already (including the MIT $100k Competition and being Slashdotted) and winning the Forbes contest would really be another feather in their metaphorical ca p. If youre willing to support an amazing example of what MIT alumni can do after MIT, please click here to cast your vote for Ksplice! The competition ends on Friday, so vote soon. (The vote will require an email validation, but you wont get any spam.) Thanks everyone, and happy Thanksgiving! (P.S. Amusing side story: when Waseem asked me if Id be willing to post the voting link for him, I asked him if he actually thought itd be effective. To figure it out, he compared data from when I posted the link to whatamiforgetting.mit.edu, which netted that site over 400 hits in the first day, and 700 hits overall in the next four days. Swayed by that data, I knew it was more than worth my while to write up a short little piece for the Forbes Competition.)