EMC’s costly battle against upstarts

A few weeks ago Nimble Storage CEO Suresh Vasudevan flagged EMC's aggressive sales tactics as a key problem for Nimble's enterprise penetration. We can now put a number on how much this is costing EMC. For the full year, EMC's Information Storage group product...

Snow on the rocks

Dial-a-climate People are often surprised to learn that it snows in Arizona. While much of state is low Sonoran desert - it rarely gets below freezing in Phoenix - altitude is the primary determinant of climate in Arizona. That's why it can be freezing on the edge of...

Paul Graham’s naiveté – MLK day, 2016

In Economic Inequality, Paul Graham - of Ycombinator fame - posted an astonishingly naive essay on income inequality. While many others have written take-downs (see here and here, of Mr. Graham's factual and logical flaws, there's another that deserves attention. The...