In this blog I look beyond the obvious and try to find out why people and companies do what they do - and what it means for the rest of us. 
I was just tweeted this link regarding Cisco’s response to a Tolly Group report comparing HP’s BladeSystem c7000 to Cisco’s UCS 5100.
The link is a Cisco person’s argument as to why the test plan was flawed and thus the results questionable. He is 100% correct – not necessarily that the plan is flawed (although his [...]
In the midst of all the craziness associated with being in a fast-paced startup, it’s easy to get sidetracked. Money comes in, expectations get set, people are hired, and craziness ensues. In many ways, it’s this frenetic pace of play that attracts people to startups – a lot of folks get off on dealing with [...]
Going to push my luck and try skiing again this weekend. Blizzard been happening up north of me for a week, lots of snow. Nice knowing you.
Have you seen what Nasuni has done with its cloudbench utility? Tells users exactly what levels of availability and performance they get out of their cloud storage provider on [...]
In the world of startups, there are few sure things–and one of them is that as soon as you are funded, the VCs will begin their quest to find the next CEO of the company. It will often begin quietly, behind the scenes, and eventually make its way into the public eye. It will cause [...]
Exanet is one of those crazy Israeli tech companies that never figured out sales and marketing. They are a classic example of all that I’ve ranted about lately in this area. They have some good distributed file system technology – or had anyhow (I’m not sure how it stacks up in the current environment, I [...]
While this factor absolutely haunts most startups, it also affects even established companies. It normally doesn’t kill a big company, however, which is I why I’ll focus on the startup.
In short, popular wisdom in the world of the tech startup dictates a cadence and pattern for a company to follow that is 100% ass-backwards – [...]
The “Cloud” market is not a market – it’s a construct. The SSP market 10 years ago wasn’t a market either – it was a bad idea. Both had absurd levels of “buzz” which led to absurd levels of VC money being poured in. Both will end the same way – with disillusionment.
The reason the [...]
As I watched the MA Senate race for the late, great Ted Kennedy’s seat this week, it occurred to me that I was witnessing an historical oddity of epic proportions. I watched a “can’t lose” lose. That got me thinking about business variants of the same theme – and there have been several.
In the past [...]
You might recall my quest for proper “diet” versions of Ginger Beer to aid in my consumption of Dark’n’Stormys. I’m happy to report that ESG lobbyist to the beverage industry, Ellen Cenedella has successfully been able to add Gossling’s Diet Ginger Beer to the brew list of North Eastern U.S. OEM Polar Beverage Corp. of [...]
Just got back from speaking at Xiotech’s kick-off out in Vegas. If ever a company has proven my theorem that marketing matters, it’s them. They are a “tweener” – they live in a world where they are much smaller than the big guys, and much bigger than the small guys. Some would call it IT [...]
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