A classic mistake for start-ups is to ask one name to fly solo. It’s usually the product name. Since entrepreneurs have to be obsessed with their product to start a business, that’s probably to be expected. But then how can...
Software Everyware – Hungry or Happy?
I recently attended the IBM Innovate conference as an IBM guest analyst. At the outset, I must thank IBM – especially their outstanding Software IT analyst team – for being an excellent host and providing us a forum to get...
OPEN VIRTUALIZATION ecosystem continues to gather momentum – New KVM Alliance
Today’s enterprise data center crisis is largely caused by the sprawl of under-utilized x86 systems, ever escalating electricity costs, and increasing staffing costs. Using virtualization to centralize and consolidate IT workloads, many organizations have significantly reduced their IT capital costs,...
MEASURED MIGRATION is Smart for the Datacenter and Clouds
Imagine the solar energy needed to convert the earth’s water mass to clouds! Likewise, with legacy IT investments estimated to be in the trillions of dollars in an interconnected global IT environment, the sheer effort to migrate even a modest...
Why engineering needs high performance cloud solutions
The design and engineering function in companies is in crisis. The engineering community must deliver designs better, faster and cheaper; design high quality products with lesser designers and across a distributed ecosystem of partners; and respond to increased CIO cost...
Branding: It’s the Muscle in Marketing
“In the end there is no brand until the clients recognize it after it has been marketed.” So said a dear friend as we debated start-up priorities. To him, branding appears to be fluff and of no consequence to a...
Pogo Got it Right: The Enemy is US!
Global warming can be changed, says Rob Watson, CEO of EcoTech International and the founding father of the LEED standard for buildings but only if we change how we think. For one thing, we need to focus on the real...
Thought Carried Into Action
Shai Agassi of Better Place gives us meaningful action that can be implemented within the next 15 years to significantly reduce automotive emissions and, incidentally, reduce the cost of operating a car. His company has started to build prototype battery-change...
Energy Harvesting: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
It was a new expression for me when a friend mentioned it over lunch. “Energy harvesting.” Recovering and using energy that is typically lost or dissipated in the environment to create a virtually inexhaustible source of energy. What a cool...
Corn Ethanol – Panacea or Pariah?
It sounds increasingly as if some current efforts to mitigate climate change may do more harm than good – and do harm to even more than the environment. Corn ethanol fuel, a highly touted biofuel alternative to gasoline, is easy...