I’ve looked at Dell a couple of times already, once before Dell World 2012, and once after the go-private thing was announced. I went back and read over my previous stuff, so you probably should to, because I’ll be referring to it. Since we last looked at the company, Dell’s… Read More
I’m pleased to announce that I’m one of the seed round investors in Moore’s Cloud. A bunch of us have decided that their prospects are bright enough that it’s worth giving them some money to see if they can make good on all the ideas they’ve been having. This a… Read More
This is the uber-post I promised you, full of anablogger goodness: financials, strategy analysis, graphs, Oh My! Conclusion Starting at the end, hopefully to pique your interest as to how I arrived at my conclusion, here’s my summation of Dell: Dell is only just beginning the turnaround from a doomed,… Read More
This is part of a series on the SNIA Blogfest 2010. NetApp were the fourth, and final, vendor of the day. We were met by John Martin, Principal Technologist, and a young guy from NetApp’s PR firm who was presumably there just to observe. We gathered around a conference table,… Read More
This is part of a series on the SNIA Blogfest 2010. HDS were our third vendor of the day. Refreshed after a hasty lunch, we bussed out to North Ryde and arranged ourselves around another conference table. A notice on one wall handily informed us that guest wireless was available… Read More
This is part of a series on the SNIA Blogfest 2010. IBM were the second vendor of the day. We travelled to their Pyrmont Street office, which is a bit of a fishbowl for the poor folks who work there. There’s a transparent glass partition separating the front entrance from… Read More
This is part of a series on the SNIA Blogfest 2010. EMC were the first vendor of the day. We assembled at their offices in Miller St, North Sydney and were greeted by Clive Gold, Marketing CTO for Australia and New Zealand. We filed into what looked like a custom… Read More
This is part of a series on the SNIA Blogfest 2010. Ok, so #SNIAfest happened and now I need to write it up. Wow. SNIAfest was a new thing for all of us: SNIA, the bloggers, the vendors, and you. I’m just feeling my way through it, really, so enjoy… Read More
This is part of a series on the SNIA Blogfest 2010. I’m off to Sydney on Thursday to attend the SNIA ANZ Blogfest. It’ll be a long day for me, since I’m flying home to Melbourne the same day, and kickoff will be from just before 8am for breakfast. It… Read More
I won’t be the least surprised to see that headline sometime in the next couple of years. Let’s take a look at recent trends in tech to see why: VMware Prior to VMware, no one knew what a hypervisor was outside of banking folk who deal with IBM AS/400 and… Read More
