Intel’s best and worst

Over on ZDnet Monday I posted RAM to avoid: hot, expensive and slow. I wrote about Intel’s ill-fated attempt to get Fully Buffered DIMMs accepted as the memory standard for servers and workstations. I got started on the topic because I’m thinking of buying...

What is VMware worth?

From the whatever-people-will-pay department My colleague at Data Mobility Group, Walter Purvis, sent me a link to a Barrons blog which summarizes the thinking of several analysts on the issue of VMware’s worth. Let a thousand flowers bloom There is some...

EMC has Ph.Ds? – Part II

Last week I realized that I hadn’t seen any research papers from EMC technologists, despite cruising they highways, byways and deep weeds of storage research for some time. I know they have smart guys. What are they doing? They’re salesmen, making 800...

DH Hell

Totally off topic: Buy great chair on Ebay. Shipped Monday on DHL. Thanks to massive storage and distributed networks, I knew it was in Phoenix – a two hour drive from where I live – Tuesday morning. Fantastic! Tuesday morning: “Delivery arranged, no...