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10 Things Google+ Can Do To Wow Itself and the World
Google+ is off to a good start: A clean interface that works, interesting and useful features, a great Android app, and a curious community of early adopters. These screenshots will give you a taste of what Google+ is, but they will also likely show you what it is not, at least not yet. Google needs ...
Goodbye Storwize – Hello Real Time Compression
In June, SiliconAngle’s John Furrier published one of the first posts that IBM was going to acquire Storwize for $140M. In late August, Dave Vellante reported on SiliconAngle that the deal had been closed and provided some details of the transaction from the perspective of the Storwize CEO Ed Walsh. Vellante’s story chronicled how Walsh ...
What’s Next After 3Par? DDN Gaining Technology Leadership Adds More Talent Hires Bret Weber
Did you ever wonder what happened to those 4.0 GPA guys in your Engineering class? I always thought they would flame out in some sort of crazy Dungeons and Dragons love fest. However one guy I know actually really did something with his 4.0, and that is Bret Weber. And DDN just hired him!!! A ...
Ha! Dell + Ocarina
Well, looks like I was right. TheStreet tonight is reporting that Dell has signed an agreement to acquire Ocarina Networks. In May I reported that the “word on the street” was that Dell was rumored to buy Ocarina and now it has happened. It also looks like that the piece I put up regarding some ...
5 Things I HATE about the Technology Community [IT Gripes]
Don’t get me wrong, I harbor no illusions that my voicing these concerns will change the industry in the foreseeable future, but these things sure do make the collective blood of IT boil. 1) Vendor Benchmarking. Why is it that vendors actually have clauses in their purchase contracts that prohibit their technology from being benchmarked ...
IT’s Changing – The Times They Are Changing
I was driving with my kids the other day (4 and 8) and they asked me what time it was. My response was “At the tone, the time will be 10:30 – ding”. You can imagine the look I got. They asked me what I was talking about so I explained to them when we ...
Why NetApp Must Seek Acquisition
I have been thinking about this for a long time. Don’t get me wrong, I like the folks at NTAP but it seems like the ‘infrastructure’ players of today are not the same players that will be in the game tomorrow. If you look at the infrastructure players today (enterprise), you have: IBM, Hewlett Packard, ...
Motorola iPad Competitor Coming Soon
It seems in the wake of Motorola trying to ‘upgrade’ their image they will be coming out with an iPad this fall. (Motorola may want to re-think this as this is about the same time Apple will launch iPad 2.0) It will be a 16" x 9" (wide screen format) pad that will run the ...
Now is the Time to Acquire
It’s really great to listen to folks talk about the economy getting better and all the positive activity going on in the technology industry, but I guess the more things change, the more they stay the same. We seem to be climbing out of an economic slump that resemble the mudslides of Southern California but ...
DDN – Who?
I hear that DDN (Data Direct Networks) is the ‘best’ kept secret in the storage industry. Well, I guess that depends on how you define ‘best’. But the word on the street is that storage industry veteran Rich Pappas is going to take over as their VP of Business Development / OEM Sales. This is ...