Virtualization is hot. Ask anyone. It's hot, but put the word "storage" in front of "virtualization" and the air goes out of the balloon, the soufflé sags, or, in other words, the joke falls…
I recently wrote about Twitter’s business model as ultimately enveloping ever greater parts of its developer community. [Twitter Is The Black Hole Of The Twitterverse…] After all, why leave money on the table? Why…
It’s been an interesting first quarter. Cisco and HP dumping on each other last month, 3PAR turns up the heat in automated storage tiering and then HP’s two-day analyst event in March, followed up…
I’ve been lucky enough to meet with a swath of companies this year, almost all of which excite me on various levels. One of the more interesting infrastructure conversations I’ve had is with a…
Last week I wrote a post that covered many of the observation I made on my recent trip to mainland China. Given my background in IT, a natural area of interest for me was…
As the CloudConnect event finishes up today after a great four days of presentations and gathering of some of the top people in the Cloud Computing sector, infrastructure and service provider Opsource has two…
According to Forbes online, Cisco is announcing specifics on their Borderless Network vision with specifics on new switches. These specifics come one week after Cisco’s overblown router announcement that was supposed to change the…
In the corporate world, we still use Internet Explorer 6. Yes, I know how shocking and lame that is, not to mention how slow GMail is on it but in a software environment, IE6…
Cyber-anthropology. What? That was just about my reaction as well. I met Diana Martin in the SxSWi Bloggers Lounge early Saturday morning, who is a UX (user-experience) specialist at The Planet (a large web…
Like many of you, I woke up yesterday to a bitter post on Jolie O’Dell’s personal blog entitled “Why SxSW Sucks,” which has acted as some sort of magnet for many of the non-attendees…