As I sit not working, instead watching the dreaded NY Giants smooshing the Washington Redskins, what comes on the TV but Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates in an absolutely hysterical commercial - at least to me. I don't even know...

I shall be honest – when Cisco came into the wacky world of Fibre Channel, I figured 3-5 years and everyone else was toast. I was wrong. Brocade, a punk little company back then, had to deal with their CEO...

Adaptec is the gift that keeps on giving. They buy companies, get seemingly nothing but headaches from them, and sell them a year or two later for pennies on the dollar – often back to the same people who sold...

Always on the ball, unless I'm trying to get money out of him, Pillar's Chris Drago was nice enough to volunteer their "storage efficiency" calculator. I must admit, it looks great…..and it doesn't appear to automatically take you to the...

So you are feeling a bit guilty about that entire carbon footprint you create aren't you? Me too. And probably like me you try to do little things to help out here and there, yet you find it furiously frustrating...

I love the Olympics. I love them because there is always some sport being played that I've never seen nor heard of, but I find myself riveted too. This year it's "Women's Team Handball", which is not a good name...

Three weeks ago I got on the phone with the new team at Agami – a well funded startup in the NAS space with big name VC's ready to for a "do over". The past regime spent a lot of...

Cuil is Cool. A batch of ex-Googlers started their own search engine predicated on things I like – finding relevant results instead of endless amounts of crap, helping me find things by not assuming I have any idea of what...

I find it interesting that the older human beings get, the more resistant to change they become - even when it is clear that change is necessary. I'm sitting in our mid-year off-site meetings with people who I respect and...

$3 billion clams, or about a 50% premium, which seems really high to me if I'm reading it right. Foundry seems to have a ton of cash and short term investments so that takes the real buy number down to...