by Robin Harris | Wednesday, May 23, 2007 | Off-Topic |
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...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, May 13, 2007 | Off-Topic |
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...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, May 10, 2007 | Off-Topic |
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...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, May 6, 2007 | Off-Topic |
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...
by Robin Harris | Monday, April 2, 2007 | Off-Topic |
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...
by Robin Harris | Friday, March 30, 2007 | Backup, Off-Topic, Security & Public Policy |
A distinguished scholar published a book last year about data replication in the Greek-speaking ancient world. He examined a group of texts and how the technology and context of the times affected data integrity. He looked at (I think he had some help) over 5700...
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