This post defines the Competitive Business Process we all face today when it comes to our knowledge workers, data and technology.
The Competitive Business Process
The Storage Alchemist Gets a Facelift
The Storage Alchemist has now a much simpler, cleaner look and feel thanks to my friends at Business Blender
Facebook Storage Infrastructure w/o FB IT Costs
In 2012 I did a blog post on Facebook going public. The premise of the piece wasn’t about the fad that surrounds social media or that a social media company was going public, it was that the group of IT practitioners that manage Facebook’s storage infrastructure had deployed something pretty amazing.
In 2009 I quoted a few simple stats:
Facebook had about 1 billion users - remember, each user has a mailbox for messagesUsers were… Read more »Innovation and Some Unfair Statements
This past week I read an article in Owler that called out some statements made by Sun co-founder Vinod Khosla.
In the article Vinod discusses innovation as well as the EMC / Dell acquisition. Vinod said that he hasn't see Dell, EMC or IBM innovate in the last 30 years. I take a bit of exception to that. I have worked for both EMC and IBM and… Read more »
Needham Next-Gen Storage / Networking Conference
So, I spent yesterday at the Needham Next-Gen Storage and Networking Conference. First, it was a great day. The Needham folks, especially Richard Kugele, created a fabulous opportunity to listen and speak about the storage market, technology and products. I spent all my time in the storage track, but can only imagine that the networking track was as insightful.
I wanted to point out some of my observations from the conference. I wont… Read more »