Segmenting techies

You always knew techies were different. . . Market segmentation is a black art. Some people believe that markets can be finely segmented in ways that are meaningful over time. Perhaps because I spend a lot of time marketing leading edge stuff I believe that segments...

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...

Visions vs Roadmaps

Walter Purvis, my very analytical colleague at Data Mobility Group, wrote in to call me on an apparent contradiction: Yesterday you were flogging EMC for “the lack of a vision, or goal, that EMC is aiming for… where is EMC investing its R&D dollars to create...

Who is this guy?

Stay too long in storage and this could happen to you A buddy of mine from DEC, Kirby Wadsworth, has started a started a blog that I’ll be watching. Normally I don’t blog about blogging or bloggers – drinking one’s own bath water and all that...

Storage Bits on ZDnet

As if I wasn’t busy enough already I’ve taken on another blog called Storage Bits at ZDnet. I’d been blogging for Computerworld on a volunteer basis, so when ZDnet started waving obscene amounts of money (obscenely low, but at least a positive...