by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 22, 2010 | Enterprise, Marketing |
Winding up the week – it is Friday here – in Japan as a guest of Hitachi Data Systems. Fine hospitality from my American and Japanese hosts in steamy mid-summer Tokyo. Looking forward to Arizona. The practitioners in the group – one who loves XIV,...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, July 18, 2010 | Enterprise |
The friendly folks at Hitachi are flying me and a number of other analysts and bloggers to Tokyo. They want to tell us about their plans for – well, I don’t know what – and it’s under NDA. Normally I don’t sign those, but between Tokyo...
by Robin Harris | Friday, July 16, 2010 | Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech, Video |
Cloud computing gets a bad rap because it can’t replace corporate data centers for mission critical apps. But new computing paradigms never do that: it is the new capabilities they enable that drive adoption. Case in point: transcoding. Why? Anyone who shoots...
by Robin Harris | Friday, July 9, 2010 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, Security & Public Policy |
Given how hard it is to save data you want (see The Universe hates your data) to keep, losing data on the web should be easy. It isn’t, because it gets stored so many places in its travels. Problem But the power of the web means that silliness can now be stored...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, June 26, 2010 | Management, Security & Public Policy |
Greg Reyes, former CEO of Brocade, received a sentence of 18 months and a $15 million dollar fine for his conviction on 10 felony counts related to options backdating. Prosecutors had asked for 37 months and a $137 million dollar fine. Mr. Reyes was emotional at his...
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