Interesting middle ground between old school high-upfront investment server rooms with IT guys on call, and new school IT infrastructure as a service. Take the

Interesting middle ground between old school high-upfront investment server rooms with IT guys on call, and new school IT infrastructure as a service. Take the servers out of the rack in the dark room full of fragile equipment and tangled wires, color them orange, remove the blinking lights and crazy loud fans, and sit them on a desk and they don't seem so scary anymore. (The price is still a little bit scary). Differentiators of privacy, usability, and good aesthetics have brought this company far - raising 1m on kickstarter, selling into hundreds of companies, and now securing a spot at YC. Still, networking is a very complex subject, and a lot of smart people get paid a lot of money to make sure it gets done right. I'm rooting for Protonet to help us democratize networking and bring it further towards the power consumer/small business market. Shouldn't private control of one's own data be a basic right in this day and age?