Town Lake (Taken with Instagram at Lady Bird Lake)
Town Lake (Taken with Instagram at Lady Bird Lake)
View Article“Yes, there are many people who blog and otherwise publicly discuss...
“Yes, there are many people who blog and otherwise publicly discuss development methodologies and what they’re working on, but there are even more people who don’t. Blogging takes time, for example,...
View Article“Data growth / excessive data growth and IT budget constraints were the most...
“Data growth / excessive data growth and IT budget constraints were the most significant problems cited by respondents of the survey. Data protection/ disaster recovery / business continuity were also...
View ArticleVMware – Back of the Envelope #013
Ed and I discuss VMware, a fascinating company for many reasons. Click play below to listen: …or download it directly here or subscribe to the podcast feed.
View Article“Technology is a glittering lure, but there’s the rare occasion when the...
“Technology is a glittering lure, but there’s the rare occasion when the public can be engaged on a level beyond flash, if they have a sentimental bond with the product.” – The Carousel
View ArticleYou’ll never believe what I’m calling on!
I often tell people, “you’ll never believe what I’m calling from!” and they don’t seem to know what I’m saying. Also, the old “Bula Vinaka, Beachside!” AT&T commercial. I was talking with Barton...
View ArticleWhat a young man like that doesn’t understand, is that an…
What a young man like that doesn’t understand, is that an old man just needs a clean, well lit place to drink (Taken with Instagram at Lovejoy’s Tap Room & Brewery)
View ArticleStorage Prices, 2000 to 2001
Extracted from Credit Suisse’s “The Need for Speed” (March 2011) and David Rosenthal’s S3 pricing history. See raw data as well.
View Article“It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.”
“It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.” – Steve Jobs
View ArticleEnterprise vs. Consumer Bid’ness
Workday was founded seven years ago by two guys with the best imaginable pedigrees, deep pockets, and networks to call on to get stuff done quickly. Duffield and Bhusri raised a reported $250 million...
View ArticleOn Oracle Strategy
What I’ve come to realise is this. Oracle’s strategy hinges on one simple argument: investing in a complete integrated stack of Oracle technology (from server and storage hardware up through middleware...
View ArticleDisruption
In other words, an upgrade to an over-serving product will be deferred at the slightest excuse while an installation of an under-serving product that attacks an unsolved problem will be rationalized no...
View ArticleCloud is just computers
I get the big data part of the PureData announcements, but after analyzing the announcements and getting briefed by Big Blue, I still don’t get the cloud part. And I don’t get why the names on all of...
View ArticleSome Kind of Hybrid Cloud
Our customers are asking for two interrelated items: federation to public clouds and a choice of public cloud APIs. It’s been very consistent. Customers are all deploying some kind of hybrid solution....
View ArticleIntegration is gonna be a problem for cloud
Enterprise software integration is hard and risky. Once you’ve invested in integrating your enterprise applications with one another (and/or with your partners’ applications), that integration becomes...
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