I have been struggling for sometime now to understand why cloud computing and cloud storage have suddenly become so popular.  We have previously discussed some of cloud problems (here and here) but we have never touched on why cloud has become so popular. In my view, SaaS or ASPs and MSPs have been around for [...]

Was talking with a friend of mine this week and he said that strategic planning has been deemphasized these last few years mainly due to the economic climate.  We have discussed this before (see Strategy, as we know it, is dead). Most companies are in a struggle to survive and had little time or resources [...]

Coming out of the deep recession of 2007-2009 I am struck by how closely business success during recession looks like what ecologists call punctuated equilibrium.  As Wikipedia defines it, punctuated equilibria, “… is a model for discontinuous tempos of change (in) the process of speciation and the deployment of species in geological time.” This seems [...]

Starting thinking today that the iPad with some modifications  could be used to provide universal computing and information services to the world’s poor as a One iPad per Child (OipC).  Such a solution could easily replace the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) that exists today with a more commercially viable product. From my perspective only [...]

At EMCWorld today Pat Gelsinger  had a pair of VPLEXes flanking him on stage and actively moving VMs from “Boston” to “Hopkinton” data centers.  They showed a demo of moving a bunch of VMs from one to the other with all of them actively performing transaction processing.  I have written about EMC’s vision in a [...]

[Long post, over 4 minute reading] For a while now, I have been considering whether an inter-planetary economy would be possible.  Given that faster than light speed is impossible for any material substance, I believe the only viable foundation for any inter-planetory economy must be information transfers.  But can this sustain a multi-planet economy. Worldwide [...]

We have discussed the need for visionary leadership in prior posts on R&D effectiveness and is M&A the only way to grow but failed to define the traits of visionary leadership.  We turn now to examine just what makes a visionary leader?  It seems only fitting to start this discussion with a portrait of Abraham Lincoln [...]

The crowd seemed more end-user centric, the exhibit floor seemed less intense, and sigh, the bar less crowded.  But mostly what I heard at this week’s SNW was more interest on SSDs and on cloud computing and storage. Admittedly, I am a different observer than most at SNW.  I typically do not attend tutorials/sessions unless [...]