Flip RIP. Is UCS next?

John Chamber’s epiphany – driven by a stock price swoon – that Cisco should stick to its knitting has another logical conclusion: dump the benighted Universal Computing System. But is the damage already so bad that Cisco is damned if it does and...

NetApp’s Engenuity

Does NetApp’s purchase of LSI’s storage business – not known as Engenio – portend a fundamental change in NetApp’s business model? No and yes. Here’s why. The story NetApp has often contrasted their single focus on Data ONTAP with...

EMC channels their inner prankster

EMC is spending time and money to prank NetApp. Why? Stephen Foskett documents things EMC is doing to irritate NetApp: A small fleet of Minis with EMC colors parked in front of NetApp HQ Marking the sidewalks in front of NetApp’s HQ with EMC slogans Sharing...

Ken Olsen, 1926-2011

Ken Olsen, the founder and long-time CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), died Sunday. It is a sad day for hundreds of thousands of DEC alumni. DEC’s beginnings As a grad student at MIT Ken worked on Project Whirlwind, the world’s first interactive...