Diane Greene is gone from VMware. It had been rumored to be coming for many months and semi-not so great numbers being reported seemed like a good time to end the show. The woman took a lot of rumor mill...

Twenty years ago I was at the San Diego super computer center. Their mega-machine of the day was a twenty foot long three ton flashing light box that looked stunning like the "whopper" from War games. Anyway, what's interesting is...

This is absolutely brilliant. This is what makes my (pseudo) job worth it. I just opened an email from Beth Mayhew, Director of Marketing for AIMM.org that says this: "Enterprise Search Frustrates and Disappoints Users 69% of respondents report that...

Most IT operational issues can be pared down to one common denominator – data growth. If it were not for endlessly growing volumes of data demanding equally endlessly growing amounts of infrastructure we would have solved every major hurdle to...

Mike Workman, CEO of Ellison's Pillar Data Systems, is as much a lunatic as I previously mentioned. Check this article out in Forbes - Article If you don't feel like reading it, allow me to paraphrase: Mike blows things up....

You gotta love this guy....and with all due respect to my intellectual engineering friends who think sales guys are the root of all evil, think again. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121251528966441919.html?mod=yahoo_hs&ru=yahoo

At the 5 month mark in the year of 2008, I find myself thinking about how upside down things are. The general mood remains pessimistic, but most IT companies are hitting their numbers. There are budget cuts across the board,...

Cisco, Nortel, Riverbed, Isilon, Symantec, and LSI all beat their Wall St. numbers last quarter. LSI's CEO Abhi Talwalkar stated, "Stronger than expected sales of our SAS and SAN silicon partially offset the effects of normal seasonality while the longer-term...

First, Jay Kidd is a good blogger, but he's a marketing guy so I'd expect nothing less. Second, the point he is making – while seemingly somewhat self-serving, is realistic. We spend way too much time trying to come up...

It's funny when it's Monty Python, but a massive pain in the butt in real life. I received 266 Spam emails yesterday. One day – 266. The problem isn't getting better, it's getting worse. I won't debate the "why does...