IoT opens opportunities, if you can deal with it

We hear the term “real-time” a lot. But “real-time” can mean everything from instantaneous to several seconds or even minutes. The industry has not properly defined a real timeliness of the term “real-time”. This can make it very confusing for business users. If...

New Mobile: Windows 1, Apple 0

Last week, Tom Petrocelli wrote his post New Tablet: Android 1, Windows 0, in which he recalled why he chose Android over Windows for his new tablet. Today, I explain my choice for Windows over Apple for my mobile phone. In my job, I work with several form factors...

What Do Analysts (Like Me) Look For?

This is an excerpt from a larger paper (maybe ebook) I’ve been writing on how companies interact with industry analysts. It is especially useful to companies that can’t seem to get traction with analysts. If you think that you can’t get the attention...

Cloud providers: AWS, MSFT,GOOG, Alibaba?

I will be honest with you. Attending the Flash Memory Summit (held at the Santa Clara Convention Center on August 5-7) was really for the purpose of connecting with Ben Woo (technically my boss). Since we live on different coasts, having that face-to-face time is...

OpenVMS continues to live! Long live VMS!

Those of you who have known me for a while know that I go back to the ‘old’ DEC days of PDP-8, PDP-11, RSX, RA81, etc. So it was with great surprise and excitement that I read in the Wall Street Journal that HP has paved the way for VMS to live on (at...