by Robin Harris | Wednesday, January 20, 2010 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Marketing |
Verari Systems is now Verari Technologies. The company’s assets were purchased by the original founder, Dave Driggers, after an attempt last year to get another round of financing foundered. They’ve had some success with their containerized compute/storage...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, December 15, 2009 | Management, Marketing, SOHO/SMB |
I noticed this morning that co-founder Geoff Barrall is out as Data Robotics CEO. The VCs installed their own guy, who previously was head of sales and marketing at on-the-ropes Brocade. Given Geoff’s banishment from the executive team and the lack of a...
by Robin Harris | Monday, November 23, 2009 | Enterprise, Marketing |
Looking at ZL Technologies suit against Gartner (seeGartner’s magic hydrant) I noticed an interesting disconnect between their filings and their web site. The filings make impressive claims: Symantec’s search is so slow as to render it useless for its intended...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, November 3, 2009 | Enterprise, Marketing |
It gushes money Gartner’s business model is genius. They gather information from vendors and users – for large fees from both – and then sell that information back to them for even more money. Bliss. They own a toll booth on the user/vendor...
by Robin Harris | Monday, September 28, 2009 | Cloud computing & storage, Marketing |
Thinking about cloud Amid the hype and glitz on cloud storage and computing it can be difficult to separate the essential from the transitory. The word scale is abused; APIs are debated; business models are in flux: and new varieties of cloud infrastructure are being...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, September 27, 2009 | Enterprise, Marketing |
A re-education camp for bloggers. If I start gushing on HP, slap me. Starts tomorrow in Colorado Springs. I’ve heard they’re flying in bloggers from Europe, which may lend tone to the event. Can you spell “virtualization?” The agenda includes...
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