Is it the cloud or the fog and should customers care?

The fog was a 1980 horror movie that was remade in 2005. The basic plot line was a fog rolled in and started killing people and wreaking havoc on a small town. While I have not seen the movie (either the original or the remake), I can’t help but think that the cloud...

What the HP split really means

Over the weekend of October 4-5, 2014, the Wall Street Journal ran two articles (1, 2) on the suggestion that HP. On Monday, October 6, 2014, confirmed that it would split itself into two companies. One company would have the PC and printer assets (HP Inc.) and the...

Oracle: Social Is Now Part of The Infrastructure

Larry Ellison of Oracle has been around the IT industry from before it was called the IT industry. While he doesn’t always predict the future well (cloud computing… ahem) he is a keen observer of large enterprises. He is also willing to say what he thinks. That...

Bye Bye Larry… Oh Wait!

  Oracle announced yesterday that Larry Ellison will hand over the CEO reins to his lieutenants Mark Hurd and Safra Catz. I bet HP feels really stupid just about now for having said so many mean things about Hurd. Predictably, this set off a series of ancient...

Quick Thoughts on Watson Analytics

IBM has had a ton of announcements around Watson, their cognitive computing platform. A couple of weeks ago it was Watson Discovery and earlier this week it was Watson Analytics. Still a Beta program, Watson Analytics is a cloud based cognitive computing analytics...