Vendor Non-Blogs
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal, Virtual Storage on 20. Jan, 2010 | View Comments
Biased content isn’t just found on blogs – it’s much more likely to be found in other areas like Twitter and discussion forums. When does discussion become Astroturf?
My 2009 IT Industry Predictions
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Computer history, Enterprise storage, Everything, Personal, Terabyte home, Virtual Storage on 24. Dec, 2009 | View Comments
Predictions are perilous: Get it right and you look like a mere trend-watcher; get it wrong and you look like a fool. So I’m doing something different this year: I’m going to make predictions for 2009 now that it’s over, and reflect on just how smart I am (not) to have made them.
Cloud Curmudgeons
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Everything, Gestalt IT, Personal, Virtual Storage on 04. Aug, 2009 | View Comments
Although I will resist the obvious and hackneyed cloud metaphors and similies, it is painfully clear that the field of cloud computing remains ill-defined. As we (hopefully) near the apex of hype, just about every IT company is clamoring to be part of the cloud market. From data center build-out to storage arrays to server [...]
Back From The Pile: Interesting Links From Mid-May
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal, Virtual Storage on 26. May, 2009 | View Comments
My travels last week kept me from posting my weekly round-up of interesting web content. So this week’s is a little heavy (and heavily edited!)
Most important: Please register to be a marrow donor, especially if you might be a match for Nick Glasgow of EMC!
Google Is Heading For A Cliff; What Will They Do?
Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Personal on 22. May, 2009 | View Comments
Google is the most important company to the Internet. Hyberbole? I think not! Without Google, the Internet that we all know and love would be a very different place, as would the business of IT. Along with Microsoft and the supporting community around LAMP, Google is the very foundation of modern computing. But the foundation of Google itself, its ability to rank Internet content and present relevant information to its users, is at risk. What will they do to fix it?
Twitter Loses Control Of Twitter
Posted by Stephen in Personal on 13. May, 2009 | View Comments
Yesterday afternoon, Twitter made what they called a “small settings update“ to their eponymous service. Who cares? That title fooled me, too, but let me tell you, everyone cared. Within hours, this change spread across the worlds of bloggers and micro-bloggers alike. And less than 24 hours after announcing the change, Twitter’s founder, Biz Stone, [...]
Back From the Pile: Interesting Content From the Week of May 2, 2009
Posted by Stephen in Everything on 04. May, 2009 | View Comments
There were some interesting events and blog posts last week. This new weekly feature highlights those!
Enterprise IT
Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle Your Reliance On Backup Tapes – What’s wrong with backup tapes? They’re inaccessible, making them unsuitable for most applications. My latest post for my Enterprise Storage Strategies blog.
Is Licensing Turning vSphere Into Vista? – A [...]
Introducing the Enterprise Storage Strategies Blog
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal on 23. Apr, 2009 | View Comments
As I noted a few weeks ago in my post about joining the Nirvanix team, my professional focus is on helping enterprise IT respond to the changing business climate.
Nirvanix management understands that enterprise IT is very different from other potential customers for cloud storage, so they’ve invested in services talent to help bridge the gap [...]
WeFollow: The Passive Twitter Directory
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 16. Mar, 2009 | View Comments
Kevin Rose announced the availability of an interesting new service at the March, 2009 South by Southwest festival: WeFollow is a passive, user-generated twitter directory.
The genius of WeFollow is that there’s not account to create and no complicated setup. You simply send a tweet to @wefollow with up to three hashtags and your account is [...]
Ten-Year Trend: Mobility
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Computer history, Enterprise storage, Everything, Personal, Terabyte home, Virtual Storage on 11. Mar, 2009 | View Comments
What is the megatrend of this decade? I suggest that we are witnessing a wholesale shift from information tied to place/device to information mobility. Cloud computing, server virtualization, and even flash memory are all contributors to this massive trend, along with the user-side trends of the post-PDA mobile phone, 3G data, social web services, and connected home.
