Over the past 2.5 years I have been addicted to my smart phone, not the worlds greatest, I’ve had both HTC Touch and Touch Pro with Windows Mobile 6.0 then 6.1. Yes, the web browsing was basic, the phone (voice … Continue reading
What my kids teach me is the use of a product or service can go beyond what I conceive it to be, therefore I must always keep an open mind. Continue reading
Now we’ve come to the earliest stage of market adoption, the Innovators. We have also come to the most interesting of computing classes, supercomputing, also commonly referred to as High Performance Computing (HPC). That HPC is the most interesting class … Continue reading
Ok. Where did all the BlogIdollers that comment on smartphone announcements get to? I can’t believe I am the first to post on this topic! I read it in CNET News on the 28th – two whole days ago. There’s … Continue reading
By now a trend is appearing – I’m working my way back through the technology adoption lifecycle. In the new year I was reading some blog posts and vendor literature on virtual machines in embedded computing. It was this reading … Continue reading
About 250,000 immigrants arrive to Canada each year. Most of them settle down, and find jobs, and many of these jobs are in the IT (I’d say even most of these jobs are, or were, until recent ridiculous changes in … Continue reading
Social What? Social Media, Social Networking, or Social Business as I prefer to call it. The name itself doesn’t really matter but the end goal is clear, for business users the ultimate goal doesn’t change, impact to the bottom line. … Continue reading
A discussion on the holy grail of the Knowledge of Everything. Is this SkyNet (The Terminator, 1984)? Continue reading
It’s Wednesday, the middle of the week, and also the middle of this series on analyzing virtualization technology by market adoption and value proposition. We’ve covered mainframe computing and compute servers, equipment the average person never sees, and even the … Continue reading
After hobbling thru the choppy live webcast yesterday and trying to piece together all the PR fluff, blogger commentary and random 140 character posts on Twitter I am still not sure how VMforce will be a monetize-able joint venture between … Continue reading
In the first post of this series, we looked at the technology adoption life cycle, seven value propositions for market adoption of virtualization, five classes of computing and the maturity of virtualization in mainframe computers. Over the last several years, … Continue reading
I use facebook. I was late to the party and started only a year or so ago. But my posts and any information that I place have gotten fewer over the last six months as I simply am not sure … Continue reading
This is a reworking of some thoughts on virtualization technology originally posted on my personal blog. I’m breaking it into parts so that I can elaborate a little more on each aspect. The success of any technology depends on many … Continue reading
Today I attended Jive Software’s Get Social tour stop in Toronto and left impressed not only with the company’s software and strategy, but with the quality of attendance at the event. The event featured a hour (and a bit) of … Continue reading
