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...
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...
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of dining with two distinguished gentleman, both analysts, both very smart. One of them was Ben Woo…yes I am sucking up to him 🙂 As we talked shop, the third person of our party said something that was surprising, yet...
I spent yesterday recovering from DataBeat, the two-day VentureBeat Big Data conference held on May 19-20 in SF. And I do mean recovering…not only were there lots of content, but in between sessions, a DJ was dropping beats as if I were back in the NY dance...
Once upon a time, I was all about networking – enterprise networks, carrier networks, and so on and so forth. Even though I do not cover the “networking” sector, the way I view networks has helped me to understand datacenters (since it is a network of equipment...
