Cloud market heats up

In 2014 Gartner estimated that Amazon Web Services had 5x the utilized compute capacity of the rest of the cloud providers. There's a couple of qualifiers there - utilized, compute - but as a rough guess, it looked like AWS had around an 80% market share. But no more....

Everspin’s MRAM IPO

Everspin has filed for their IPO. They're looking to raise $40 million from the public market. They've been shipping product for over 10 years, so this is a real company, not a dream and a slide deck. Why MRAM? Everspin's Magnetic RAM has a number of advantages over...

Is 3D XPoint in trouble?

The Register's Chris Mellor and SemiAccurate's Charlie Demerjian are throwing shade on Intel's claims for 3D XPoint. While it's great fun to tweak the giants of tech - as I often do - I think they are likely wrong in their interpretation of the data backing their...

Dell vets: buff up your resumes this weekend

Now that Dell has completed the EMC acquisition, you are in for a rude awakening. While Dell may own EMC, EMC owns you. Richard Egan, one of the founders os EMC, fostered an exceptionally aggressive sales culture. The company liked to hire guys from blue collar...