Times they are a chanin’. To quote Steve Duplessie, Fouder of ESG and Frank Slootman, ex-CEO of Data Domain, “A legitimate market becomes an explosive market when it is built on a legitimate problem that is part of a "long term secular trend" - i.e., a trend that organically will get worse over time. This is the definition of backup (or data protection).
If you were to take a step back from your environment for… Read more »
Last week I had the extreme pleasure of being a guest on #CurrentStatus. I have been following Petri (www.petri.com) and Phoummala Schmitt (@exchangegoddess), Melissa Palmer (@vmiss33) and Theresa Miller (@24x7itconnect) for a while now (thanks to my buddy Rich Pappas (@rpappas). I have a great deal of respect for these women, what they have done in technology and what they are doing with their show. It is a great show… Read more »
Say the word “infrastructure” at Strata conference and you hear people start talking mostly about software. One of the biggest lessons I learned at the conference was that no one really cares about the hardware that “big data” sits on. Now, I am probably the biggest proponent of the fact that “spinning rust” doesn’t make a company money; it is the software that can extract the value out of the data that provides insights… Read more »