DataVail | Bear On Business

Posted by Dan Caruso
December 27, 2008

datAvail unVeiled

Lyla D. Hamilton of the Boulder County Business Report published an article titled “datAvail promises to keep databases running smoothly” . I am an angel investor in datAvail. Mike Jones, Myrle McNeal, and Andrew Morley are among my good friends who are involved in it. Lyla’s article does a great job explaining datAvail’s business model.

Here is what I like about the model:

Administering databases is the business of datAvail. Nearly all companies need this service but self-providing it is outside their core business. Why not turn it over to a focused provider? datAvail’s customers can then focus internal IT resources on projects that are core to their business.
datAvail uses a mix of onshore and offshore resources. This allows the more skilled work to be done in the U.S. by employees who are passionate about making datAvail a success. It also allows datAvail to achieve cost efficiencies by using lower cost offshore resources for more routine tasks.

Good luck datAvail. I look forward to 2009.

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DataVail’s New Web Site

DataVail was launched last month. I made a small Angel Investment (note: I rarely even look at angel investments due to the time commitment.) See my earlier post for context. Myrle McNeal and gang rolled out a new Web Site for DataVail. Take a look. www.datavail.com

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DataVail Corporation

Yesterday’s post introduced Montis Capital (http://www.montiscapital.com/index.html), a new private equity company launched by Andrew Morley and Adam Kimberly.

Andrew and Mike Jones teamed up with Boulder Ventures (http://www.boulderventures.com/) to launch DataVail Corporation. Mike Jones is also a colleague and friend of several years. Mike was CIO of Level 3 and Corporate Express, and was president of I-Structure, a company owned by Level 3 and later sold to Info Crossing. DataVail is was formed through the spinoff of Stratavia’s database management business.

DataVail is a Managed Service Provider (MSP) with headquarters and operations in Denver, Colorado and operations in Mumbai, India. It provides world-class and industry-leading database administration services as well as remote monitoring and management of IT data, application and infrastructure components. If you understand what this means, you probably are a candidate for their services—if so, I encourage you to contact them.

As both a friend and investor, I wish DataVail the best of luck.