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Life After Hard Drives
Image via Wikipedia What comes after hard drives? Good question and one that is critical to our future computing ambitions. According to a new study, if HDDs continue to progress at their current...
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HP, the Disruptor?
Why would Cisco move down into 25% mainstream server margin business when its networking business has yielded it 65%? That is the question many asked as Cisco announced its Unified Computing System in...
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Tuesday’s Tip: 10 Cloud and SaaS Apps Strategies For 2010
Keep In Mind Basic Rules Still Apply Regardless Of Deployment Option The proliferation of SaaS solutions provides organizations with a myriad of sorely needed point and disruptive solutions. Good...
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Tuesday’s Tip: The SAP Optimization List – Key Ecosystem Vendors You Should Know
High Cost Of Ownership And Changing Requirements Drive SAP Users To Seek Optimization Solutions As users await SAP to regain its mojo (see Dennis Howlett’s post) and implement it’s “Voice of the...
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Note to Google Enterprise: Don’t Get Out Much, do you?
The idea of a cloud drive or folder in the sky is obviously a good one. We’ve been waiting for how long for the fabled gDrive? As a Google Enterprise customer I am glad to know I can now upload any...
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Event Report: Oracle-Sun Raises The Stake In the Stack Wars
Oracle Rolls Out A New “Red Stack” With EU approval out of the way, Oracle finalizes the Sun deal and resumes its quest for the largest share of the IT wallet. Oracle’s 60+ acquisitions follow a...
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Interesting energy storage solutions?
I published this post on the IBM Global Eco Jam last week and it generated some interesting feedback so I thought I’d re-publish it here too to solicit your thoughts – I was at the NewNet CleanTech...
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Defining Cloud is Simple. Get Over It. The Burger.
My efforts at cloud definitional work began with 15 Ways to Tell its Not Cloud Computing. In the intervening time the forces of complexity and, yes, pragmatism have triumphed. We’re now making the...
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Sharing Files in a Multi-Device World
Listen to my conversation with Adam Gross, senior vice president of marketing and sales at cloud storage and synchronization service Dropbox. In this podcast, find out how file-sharing between users...
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Oracle Exadata: Early Signs Promising
Exadata is looking good. In the past few months, I’ve had the chance to talk to several early adopters of Oracle Exadata V2, some in connection with a sponsored white paper Oracle has just published....
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Texas warns IBM on failed data center consolidation
The Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) sent IBM a “Notice to Cure,” accusing the large system integrator of failing to perform its obligations on a data center consolidation contract...
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Symantec’s Sustainability Story: It’s The Power Consumption, Stupid.
I was lucky enough recently to meet Jose Iglesias, the guy spearheading Symantec’s sustainability efforts. I wrote the interview up over on Monkchips, but much of the content belongs here too. I like...
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Research Report: The Upcoming Battle For The Largest Share Of The Technology...
Welcome to a multi-part series on The Software Insider Tech Ecosystem Model. Subsequent posts will apply the model to these leading vendors: Cisco Dell HP IBM Microsoft Oracle Salesforce.com SAP The...
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Research Report: The Upcoming Battle For The Largest Share Of The Tech Budget...
Welcome to a part 2 of a multi-part series on The Software Insider Tech Ecosystem Model. Subsequent posts will apply the model to these leading vendors: Cisco Dell HP IBM Microsoft Oracle...
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Symantec need to stop hiding their Green light under a bushel
I attended Symantec’s Vision 2010 event in Barcelona yesterday and I found it to be hugely frustrating! Symantec are one of the world’s largest computer security companies with 31,000 customers,...
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EMC Jumps Into ADBMS Appliance Game
The Data Computing Appliance, first deliverable from EMC’s acquisition of Greenplum, was announced last month, only 75 days after the acquisition closed, and it doesn’t lack for ambition. Pat...
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OpenStack storage at Internap – OpenStack’s first production use – Brief Note
The open source cloud platform OpenStack has it’s first production use outside of the founding partners of Rackspace and NASA. Internap has launched, though still in beta, a cloud storage offering...
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Event Report: Dell’s Annual Analyst Conference Highlights Enterprise Software...
Annual Analyst Conference Highlights The New Dell Strategy Dell held their annual analyst conference at The W Austin from May 3rd to May 4th, 2011. The event featured multiple sessions including:...
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HP, the Disruptor?
Why would Cisco move down into 25% mainstream server margin business when its networking business has yielded it 65%? That is the question many asked as Cisco announced its Unified Computing System in...
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Sharing Files in a Multi-Device World
Listen to my conversation with Adam Gross, senior vice president of marketing and sales at cloud storage and synchronization service Dropbox. In this podcast, find out how file-sharing between users...
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