Say what you will about Meg Whitman as the new HP CEO. She knows consumers. Now she’ll have a chance to apply her consumer touch to one of Silicon Valley’s most storied brands, which could have a chance to give Apple a run for its money.…
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VMware’s slow and steady attack on storage
VMware has transformed the enterprise computing model more than any other company in the past decade. Now, with the latest release of vSphere containing several new storage features, VMware is set to disrupt storage. Its parent company, EMC, and NetApp may want to stay alert.…
Read MoreVMware Is The New Microsoft, Just Without an OS
In the past 10 years VMware has executed a remarkable strategy to topple enterprise software incumbents and emerge as an ecosystem kingpin. Time and again, it seems as though VMware is beating Microsoft at its own game. But a look deeper reveals that is no surprise.…
Read MoreThe Dawn of the Super Server
We're in the midst of a computing implosion: a re-centralization of resources driven by virtualization, many-core CPUs, GPU computing, flash memory, and high-speed networking. We have a lot to watch over the next few years: what I like to call the coming of the Super Server.…
Read MoreEMC’s Low-End Launch Makes Dell Look Prescient
With the launch is its new low-end VNX line, EMC shifted focus away from its high-end Symmetrix products and down to the other end of the spectrum. And, all of a sudden, Dell’s move to acquire Compellent looks much smarter.…
Read MoreWhat Comes After the Storage M&A Gold Rush
In the last 18 months, Dell, HP, IBM and EMC spent almost $10 billion on data storage and warehousing companies. This all-out gold rush was driven by a massive consolidation wave sparked by Cisco’s entry into the server market and Oracle’s acquisition of Sun.…
Read MoreWhy Is Storage So Hot? Cisco Provides a Clue.
In 2009, Cisco launched its Unified Computing System. It signaled to data center equipment vendors that the separation between servers, networking, and storage was gone. With that single move, the industry set forth on a course to consolidate. Here’s a play by play since then:…
Read MoreWhat’s Behind The Build-Your-Own Data Center Trend
In the wars of the web, hard goods (or hardware) have become the ammunition of choice. Specifically we see major web and technology companies building their own data centers, a move that appears to be a prerequisite to competing with Internet giants.…
Read MoreBig Data and NoSQL March to the Enterprise
It was a big year for NoSQL and big data, but now those vendors need to buckle down on their revenue models and make a head-on charge to the enterprise. Because, let’s face it; while the web leads the innovation, the enterprise leads the economy.…
Read MoreIs EMC the Next Step in Oracle’s Journey to $100B?
This past week, the rumor that Oracle might make a bid to buy EMC drew strong reactions, due to the acquisition's outlandish nature and monetary mismatch. But Oracle will need to more than triple its revenue to reach its $100 billion target, so anything is possible.…
Read MoreTakeaways From the Facebook and Foursquare Outages
Most web companies publish detailed post-mortems on site interruptions. These are usually an attempt to appease impatient customers and share a lesson the company learned. The write-ups by Facebook and Foursquare provide a few business and technical lessons that we should note.…
Read MoreSingle Sign-On Simplifies App Management and Access
As we adopt more and more cloud Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications for work, keeping track of those logins and passwords becomes a real pain. For companies, knowing which employees have access to which services and which content becomes a security, compliance and operations nightmare.…
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