David Coursey
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Larry Page: Own up to Google’s US image problem
To: Larry Page, co-founder, Google From: David Coursey, Editor-at-Large, SiliconANGLE Re: It’s not just your image that’s a problem, it’s Google itself I was heartened to read an Associated Press story last week headlined, “Google Faces Up to Image Problem in Europe.” It reads, in part: “I wish we’d been more involved in a real ...
Only loser vendors are truly committed to Open Source
Is it really true that the only vendors truly committed to open source are the losers, companies left behind as more successful vendors add proprietary extensions to the core open source code? I am not sure Paul Gillin, the former Computerworld editor who now works as a SiliconANGLE consultant, was really serious when he made the “losers” ...
Joyent: Don’t fire the admin who took down your cloud
I’ve made no secret of my concern that the cloud is a basket not nearly ready to hold all the eggs. The latest example of why this is true occurred Tuesday at cloud operator Joyent when, as The Register tells it, “a fat-fingered admin brought down an entire data center’s compute assets.” That’s probably the ...
The only thing worse than keeping Meg Whitman, is firing her?
When is the world going to figure out that, as CEO’s go, Meg Whitman is a lightweight? Hewlett-Packard remains in deep trouble. Still too dependent on hardware, yet late coming to tablets. Late coming to the cloud in a big way. Recently cutting a deal to sell Foxconn low-margin servers — after IBM exited that ...
Can Red Hat take the “open” out of OpenStack?
Amid rumors that Red Hat is now or plans to strong-arm customers to use its own flavor of OpenStack, history tells us one thing: They won’t be the only one trying to make the open source cloud technology their own. My guess is that if OpenStack becomes really popular it will look less-and-less like an ...
The “right to be forgotten” requires common sense : Can search engines be made responsible?
If you agree with me — and you should — that the “right to be forgotten” is, in some form a necessary part of the digital age, then you need to be involved in the discussion of how this will happen in the United States. Protecting people and organizations from Google results gone wrong is complex and ...
We need an “Underwriters Laboratories” for the cloud
The 28-hour outage of Adobe Creative Cloud last week should catch the attention of everyone who depends on cloud-based applications to get their work done. The outage makes me wonder whether we need outside certification that cloud apps are properly designed and managed, a sort of Underwriters Laboratories seal for the cloud. The Daily Beast guesstimates ...
A few issues to prompt cloud backup (and some to forget)
It almost goes without saying that public cloud users don’t need to backup their data. But only almost. It turns out there are times when backing up cloud data makes sense and there are important questions all cloud customers need to know the answers to. Worry about these… . Here are some of the issues ...
Start-up to Stall-out: How to kill your cloud company
A friend just got laid-off from a start-up cloud company that’s well on its way to stalling out. The budget intended to launch the product was spent, development costs swelled, management is in a panic, money is running out. I am sharing this story because I know many in the SiliconANGLE community have an entrepreneurial bent or ...
Alibaba IPO could spell trouble for Amazon Web Services
Will Alibaba’s IPO force unwelcome changes on Amazon Web Services? The question may seem far-fetched, but really is not. Suppose Amazon’s investors look at Alibaba’s big margins and wonder why Amazon’s profits are so anemic? That’s a paraphrase of a Facebook post by Roger McNamee, a VC friend that I’ve admired for many years. The ...