Tabloid headlines, once the largely the purview of shopping center checkout lines, now seem to dominate U.S. politics, but this is hardly new. A few weeks ago I picked up a new magazine called... More >
I agree with many of the folks commenting about Larry Ellison's rant on cloud computing -- he is one funny guy and actually cuts to the point that cloud computing isn't something new, it's just the... More >
While getting depressed about the U.S. economic situation, I wandered over to YouTube and found a video titled Pimp My Infrastructure . It appears to have HP, AMD and Microsoft backing. It's pretty ... More >
You may be surprised to know that I never intended to be as controversial as I once was but was thrust into the spotlight when my very first column, initially titled, "Making Measured Decisions," was... More >
This week I was part of the " Get to the Point " session at InformationWeek 500 (very nicely attended conference, the right people, and the right topics), where two of us were given a few minutes t... More >
As the industry moves from fad to fad, some hang around long enough to become sustaining. Currently, social networks are still more fad than business because they aren't yet throwing off enough cash ... More >
If you are living in North America and have any interest in IT, you have come to realize that not a single politician from either side has really wanted anything from us for some time other than mone... More >
Last week I posted on IBM Information Infrastructure as an unusual cross initiative largely driven by storage. Today IBM announced a massive number of products and offerings that fill out this ... More >
Often we look at large complex companies like IBM, HP and Microsoft and don't realize that what we are seeing is just the small part of the company we touch. If we are focused on storage, we see a st... More >

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