Neverfail are privately held, so no spreadsheets, alas. Their core product is their Heartbeat Failover Engine. It’s Windows only, which is a shame, but hey, it’s a big enough ecosystem to make money. From the research I’ve done so far, it appears to be a software watchdog that uses an… Read More
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
Tech Field Day 9 is fast approaching, so I thought I’d do some prep work before I head over. In what is becoming a bit of a tradition for me, I thought I’d fire up my spreadsheets and do some analysis of the companies I can get data for, starting… Read More
So last week I went to the Melbourne VMware User’s Group annual user conference. I was invited to speak by Craig Waters, who is the local Melbourne VMUG leader. O. M. G. I’ve been to a few international vendor conferences; Cisco Networkers from back in the 2001 days, NetApp’s thing… Read More
I’ve had quite a few conversations about Dell going private since the announcement. Apparently quite a few people read my post about Dell’s strategy and finances, so I figured I should write some sort of update. The last paragraph seems somewhat prescient now, I suppose. By going private, Dell can… Read More
My article went live on iTNews late on Saturday night, and it got picked up by Slashdot yesterday. As we saw, the predicted results were as good as expected, and got more accurate the higher up the order we went. As promised, here’s a more detailed explanation of how I… 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
20 years ago, a UNIX style operating system that ran on x86 hardware was released into the world. Since that time, Linux has grown from a hobby project into an incredibly common operating system that underpins many of the systems you use every day. Not bad for free software. I… Read More
This is part of a series on SNIA BlogFest 2. Update 2011-07-29: Download the slides from the Dell presentation here. Update 2011-08-10: I’ve received an email from Dell with some clarifications and corrections, which are updated inline, with some extra information near the end. Dell was our third vendor for… 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
